Among the stocks that have shrugged off the economic crisis and have prospered though it, nothing compares to the power of online retailers right now, which are red hot. There’s nothing like a recession to depress stock prices, at least normal recessions anyway. 2020’s version, a beast by any measure, has played out a little […]
With the November election fast approaching, and so much hanging in the balance for the stock market and the economy, the time to start thinking about this is now. We’ve been speaking of the potential impact of the November election in the United States for quite some time now, especially lately as the potential storm […]
We might think that given how much more stuff that people are ordering online now, the USPS would be enjoying a bountiful harvest. They are instead on life support. The mega recession of 2020 has been an unusual one, where we usually see such a thing sink all boats in the aftermath of a slowing […]
In spite of a very ugly second quarter GDP number, the U.S. economy is clearly moving in the right direction. We need to look ahead, not back, to see where we are headed from here. Casual observers may think that going through the worst quarter in history as far as GDP goes would tell us […]
It hopefully would strike us as absurd to decide never to re-open schools due to fears of communicable disease, but keeping them closed now is no less absurd. As we move closer toward what is normally back to school season, which drives a lot of additional shopping as parents purchase the multitude of things that […]
It seems that every time Apple’s stock price outperforms Wamsi Mohan’s’ view of the company’s near-term performance, he sees it as no longer a buy. In spite of Apple’s rising to becoming the world’s most valuable stock, where it has grown over 95,000% in the last 22 years, the road there has been paved with […]
We are often told by people looking to advise us on managing our stock positions to look to enter on a pullback. We need to understand the rationale before we decide to leap. Anytime markets are moving up, which they certainly are now with the right stocks anyway, it’s common that people who are paid […]
Bitcoin breaking out to the upside again in its march forward has many wondering whether they should invest in it. This should only be done if you understand how to read a chart. To those who seek to understand financial markets fundamentally, Bitcoin trading presents itself as quite a conundrum. If you are prone to […]
With the U.S. economy still mired in a huge recession, and the economic recovery in Europe further along, this has some people concluding European stocks should be added. You would think that people who are paid for their expertise in advising on stocks would at least pay a little more attention. These are folks that, […]
The Dow Jones Industrial Average needs all the help in its losing battle to keep up with the other 2 major stock indexes. Things are about to get even more challenging. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, commonly known as just the Dow, is the grandfather of major stock indexes, going all the way back to […]