Some of us have been wondering all along where the value in Uber stock is coming from. Oracle founder Larry Ellison has called it “almost worthless,” and he may be right. As famous and accomplished as Larry Ellison is, with his personal fortune of $70 billion from founding one of the world’s largest software companies, […]
There’s actually an article out there in Barron’s that claims that the Fed did not loosen monetary policy with this latest rate cut. This view actually merits a little more discussion. The financial world is full of commentators who share their take on things. Keeping people abreast of what is going on in the financial […]
Crude oil futures are already known to be pretty volatile, but events over the weekend really set things spinning. Monday brought a huge spike, but we calmed down more Tuesday. Saudi Arabia is already scrambling to recover from the drone attacks on Saturday that caused serious damage to a large oil processing facility and an […]
Target date funds are a fairly new concept where people purchase a fund which is targeted toward when they plan on retiring. Does it make sense to customize this? When you are saving for retirement and don’t want to actively manage your retirement money, which very few investors are up for, turning your money over […]
The fact that “value” stocks on the whole outperformed “growth” stocks last week shouldn’t really raise any eyebrows, but this sure did. Was this really that interesting? The biggest story last week in the stock market was how “value” stocks outperformed “growth” stocks on the whole. It actually only took a couple of days for […]
In a world where economies are so connected, we can no longer to afford to not pay attention to what is happening anywhere, and especially in an area as large as the EU. From taking a cursory view of the changes in the economic situation in the U.S. and elsewhere, the economy of the United […]
It’s not that we didn’t see this coming, but the buying frenzy that sent prices of U.S. treasuries to historic levels had to come to an end sooner or later. Sooner is here. While fundamentals do play a lot bigger role in the bond market than they do with the stock market, momentum still plays […]
You don’t see all that many articles on options plays in the popular financial media, but Barron’s columnist Steven Sears is known to provide a few, and has another for us now. Not a lot of people invest in options, and with good reason. They just don’t know their way around options and may not […]
A company’s business prospects don’t matter as much as many may think, but they do matter, and matter more in some cases. Ford is going in the wrong direction here. The economy may be humming along pretty nicely, but that doesn’t mean that all sectors are doing well. The car industry in particular is one […]
The cost of a college education has been climbing three times faster than the rate of inflation and the amount of student loan debt in the U.S. is rising as well, now at $1.5 trillion. Becoming of age and becoming of age to continue one’s studies happens around the same time, where newly minted adults […]