The more a stock gets beat up, the more the bargain hunters salivate. These mouths have plenty of reason to water with American Airlines, but should this meal be served? Bottom picking stocks can be a challenging task, but if you can get in at the right time, these plays can turn out to be […]
Carbon taxes and other measures designed to try to reduce our carbon emissions are seen by a great many people as essential these days. They need to think this through more. We’ve seen a lot of what we could call anti-carbon parades this week, with the focus on what we can do and may need […]
The diversification strategies that what is called modern portfolio theory aren’t so modern anymore, and after almost 70 years, are in need of modernization again. Modern portfolio theory came out all the way back in 1952, in a paper by economist Harry Markowitz. Markowitz ended up winning the Nobel Prize in Economics for this feat […]
It’s Climate Week, so it’s no surprise that some of the talk has turned to what some people call socially responsible investing. What is socially responsible investing anyway? With all the talk about socially responsible investing, we could stand to examine what this even means and how well what is supposed to be socially responsible […]
Tuesday was not an exciting day for those holding Bitcoin, as it dropped 14% in value in about an hour and a half. Neglecting the trends with Bitcoin can be very expensive. Bitcoin has been on quite a ride in 2019, and is still up well over 100% for the year even after the big […]
If an investor is going to invest in bonds, either for income purposes or as a hedge, he really should have a good understanding of them so that these investments can be made properly. Bonds seem to be such a simple concept, where one loans money to the bond issuer and they agree to make […]
There are a lot of people who think that we need to drastically cut down or even eliminate our use of fossil fuels for energy. Our dreams need to be realistic. Humans have been relying on getting energy from combustion for a very long time indeed. This goes back even further than the species in […]
Most of us remember what happened in 2007. Sven Henrich of NorthmanTrader thinks the same thing may happen again. Is there any sort of real evidence for this? There are all sorts of articles and views on the stock market, of various qualities. Some articles make more sense than others, but with even the ones […]
Ford gets 150% of its profits from the sale of trucks, including SUVs. This in itself tells us a great deal about their business. Sales matter a lot, profit, obviously not so much. In spite of car sales have declining, truck sales in the United States are still booming. A full 70% of the vehicles […]
Billionaire investor Leon Cooperman recently quipped on Thursday in an interview on CNBC that “they won’t open the stock market if Elizabeth Warren is the next president.” To say that Elizabeth Warren as president would be Wall Street’s worst nightmare may not be an exaggeration at all. This is a scenario that is unthinkable as […]