Hedge fund advisor Avi Tiomkin sees us heading for some real gloom and doom due to the economy contracting and deflationary trends unless we do something really drastic. There are always a variety of opinions out there about the economy. While some may be much more well informed than others, it is important that we […]

When 2018 comes in as a good year for corporate pension funds, and 2019 isn’t a good year at all, we may wonder if the people who run these funds know what they are doing. Many people yearn for the good old days where a lot of people had a pension plan, and especially ones […]

It is very much taken for granted that bonds, and especially treasuries, are quite a bit less risky than stocks. This isn’t quite accurate, and it’s a lot less accurate these days. U.S. treasuries are considered so low risk that we even call them risk-free. Nothing is absolutely risk-free but the chances of these securities […]

Dividends are a nice bonus with a stock, but with common stocks, the bigger part of the story is always going to be price movement. We need to be careful to enter at the right time. Back on July 11, Barron’s ran an article on how nice Prudential’s 4% dividend was looking, and had some […]

President Trump’s tweet about trade talks set to resume between the U.S. and China might have been wishful thinking, but this particular wish has now been granted. There has been a lot of back and forth in the stock markets over the last month as it fended off concerns about the economy possibly weakening too […]

Social media app Snap debuted in early 2017 and until this year was a bust by any definition. 2019 has seen the stock snap back pretty nicely and it may not be done. When people buy IPOs, the expectation is that it will bust out of the gate and just keep going. Some do, like […]

Government issued bonds have traditionally had a maximum term of 30 years, but longer ones are coming into fashion. We might see some longer U.S. ones soon. When we are considering purchasing bonds, one of the main things that we look at is the term of the bond. When we buy bonds, we lend money […]

Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s investor position indicator has turned bearish for the first time since January. That apparently means that stocks are bearish and we should buy. There are a lot of different indicators that people look at to look to be shown the way as far as where the price of a stock […]

There are a variety of predictions out there for the final trimester of 2019, with varying outlooks for the stock and bond markets, which indicates that there is lots of guessing. 2019 has thus far been a tale of two trimesters as far as the stock market is concerned. The first four months brought us […]

The reinsurance business has taken a turn for the better lately, but some continue to struggle, especially two that are run by hedge funds. Can we find some value here? Value investing involves people finding companies whose stocks are distressed, if not the company as well, and jumping on in hopes that things will turn […]