Even with a new CEO in place with an impressive track record in retail, and investors providing a 22% gain in one day in a vote of confidence, this is far from a solid stock yet. The retail sector has fallen upon some pretty hard times overall, taking several long-standing successful companies and washing them […]
The market simply has not liked the much leaner Fox Corp. stock that first hit the market on March 13. After giving back a quarter of its initial trading price, it may be worth a look. It didn’t seem like the $38.60 that the new version of Fox traded at back in March was too […]
There is a fair bit of uncertainty surrounding the potential end of the current bull market with stocks. Citibank is stepping up to reassure investors that the outlook remains good. We should never just take someone at their word when it comes to managing our finances. There are always voices out there that continually looking […]
Some believe that fending off a pending recession will require all the tools we can muster, including a lot of “infrastructure spending.” Is this really warranted? We learned some valuable lessons during the Great Depression, or at least there were lessons to be learned, whether we learned them all that well or not. One of […]
Critics of trading used to rely on the argument that commissions make trying to trade too difficult or even futile. Now that this is gone, detractors are down to hurling insults. Jack Bogle, the founder of Vanguard and a staunch believer in the buy and hold strategy, did not quite live to see commission-free online […]
It is no secret that Bernie Sanders isn’t too keen on people having massive amounts of wealth, and he wants to appoint himself as the one who decides how much is too much. Democratic politicians are already well known for their love of economic redistribution, what we could call the Robin Hood approach to government. […]
Stocks rallied Thursday due to increased hopes that the Federal Reserve may lower rates later this month. Friday brought us a solid jobs report, which pushed them up further. Many economics hold the belief that unemployment below a certain level, 5.5% generally, it causes too much inflation that may need to be managed. They believe […]
We don’t generally find stock analysts changing their ratings on stocks to be all that interesting, but analysts becoming more bullish on Spotify right now does stand out. The first thing that you need to understand about the work of stock analysts is that they don’t really speak to the goals of investors anywhere as […]
Stocks go up by 4.3% on average during the fourth quarter. If you like to bet on the average of what happens over many years, you can find yourself in trouble on off years. The fact that the stock market tends to go up in the fourth quarter by a fairly nice amount, 4.3% on […]
Trading commissions have been going down ever since discount brokerages first appeared on the scene. Charles Schwab has now gone all in with zero commissions. At one time, not that long ago, placing orders for stocks was an expensive affair indeed. Brokers didn’t call themselves full-service brokerages back then because all brokers were full-service. Trading […]