AMD outperformed every other stock in the market last year by a huge margin. While this scares some people, especially in the face of a big pullback, AMD continues to shine. There is a strong belief among many investors that stocks that go up a lot are ripe for a correction, where they somehow see […]

Legendary hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones, like the majority of investors, believed that gold was the best hedge against inflation. He’s changed his mind. Paul Tudor Jones knows his stuff, and is not only one of the most famous hedge fund investors in the world, he’s also widely regarded as one of the best. […]

April’s job numbers came in on Friday, and 20.5 million losing their jobs during the month should concern us plenty. Neel Kashkari of the Minneapolis Fed says it will get much worse. Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari certainly qualifies as one of the Fed’s most outspoken members, and readers might remember our doing an […]

Investors place huge sums of money into what are called value funds, hoping that these funds will outperform. It’s not enough to observe their failure, as we need to understand why. The concept of intrinsic value has always been one that has served to confuse a lot of investors. It’s not that the concept itself […]

While stocks do tend to move together a lot, and most investors seek to spread their money out among a wide variety of stocks, stock picking is becoming even more important. There is something about being selective about choosing investments that turns off the great majority of investors. While it is natural to be intimidated […]

Disney just got a check-up and they are even sicker than we thought. They missed their earnings expectations by a mile and have seen their profits decline by 93%. Disney is not a company that does well in seclusion, and many of the things that they make us think of, their theme parks and their […]

Warren Buffett doesn’t dump his positions very often, so when he gets rid of all of his airline stocks, because he thinks they are just that bad, this is going to alarm some people. Warren Buffet once swore he’d never own an airline stock again. Back in 2007, he told investors that “if a farsighted […]

Warren Buffett wants investors to turn away from their massive losses in Q1, calling them “unrealized gains and losses.” His shareholders are certainly realizing them though. We typically do not show any favor for those who don’t do a very good job in the investment world, as it’s at least as important to show how […]

There is a strong belief persisting that our economy and way of life won’t return to normal until we have a medical solution to this outbreak. Some fear we are rushing too much. We should think that it is at least odd or even bizarre that so much is being put on our needing pharmaceutical […]

Schwab’s chief investment strategist is telling us that we need to be wary of big growth stocks because they are riskier in bear markets. We’re seeing the opposite though. We often speak of all the misunderstanding that there is out there about risk with holding stocks, which mostly occurs from our looking to view risk […]