We often look to history to try to see the future, and this especially applies to stocks. History can be helpful, but we want to make sure that we don’t try to replace the present. As we continue to move further and further away from the stock market low that we put in on March […]

Oaktree Capital’s Howard Marks is known for his great timing, specializing in buying stocks when they are beat up. He believes that the market is in that situation now. Howard Marks may be far from a household name among investors, and his net worth of $2 billion pales in comparison to the big money out […]

Stocks usually go down after being downgraded by analysts, so GM stock gaining 9% after a downgrade seems very strange. These are not normal times though. It’s been no secret that the automotive sector has fallen upon hard times, at least with the stocks in the sector. It is not enough for a company to […]

Scott Minerd of Guggenheim Partners is sounding the alarm. We’re about to open Pandora’s economic box, and the worms we see may set off another round of panic. While stock markets have stabilized from the beating that they took over pandemic fears, and we’re even seeing the outbreak situation start to stabilize as well, not […]

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has been speaking about a coming pandemic for 5 years now. He believes we need a vaccine to put all this behind us. As we move further and further along in our battle with COVID-19, a lot of the discussion has naturally turned to what our exit strategy will be. While […]

A certain sector of bank stock investors, those who invest to collect dividends, don’t seem bothered no matter how much money they lose on stocks, but hands-off dividends. There seems to be no limit to how far many investors are willing to go in order to keep collecting their quarterly dividend payments. They will hold […]

The battle against the coronavirus is being fought on two fronts, the health one and the economic one. Former Senator Jim DeMint is one of the few seriously looking at both. In the frenzy that has developed over our trying to limit the number of deaths that COVID-19, the points of view out there have […]

Steven Sears has been writing columns promoting options trading for individual investors since 2006. He’s now suggesting that they use options to replace dividends. Dividends have always had a special place in the hearts of many investors, a love affair that continues even in the face of the economic crisis that we are in the […]

Many investors, including both individuals and institutional investors, get excited about the opportunities that high market volatility present. We need to be careful out there. You don’t really know how confused that you are if you are among the confused. In order to be able to tell, you need some sort of benchmark to compare […]

During the last financial crisis, mortgage lending was at the forefront. This one is far broader. Mortgages are caught up in this big net as well, but not as much as some think. Those who remember the financial crisis of 2008 will have a pretty good idea of how big of a deal the mortgage […]