ETF business is booming, and is now a $4 trillion a year industry. 80% of ETF business is concentrated in just 3 firms, with more than a hundred other firms fighting for the scraps. Exchange traded funds, known as ETFs for short, have made huge inroads into the realm of investing, and are even getting […]
Current projections have us moving from a 2.9% GDP growth rate in 2018 to around just 2% in 2019, and stay around this level until 2022. What does this mean for stocks? There’s no question that the growth of our economy is slowing down lately. The predictions of it dropping to around the 2% level […]
The stock markets may be up about 20% on average in 2019, but CVS is down that much this year so far, and down 34% since mid-November. There are reasons to be hopeful though. Investors love buying hot stocks, at least the armchair ones. There is a lot to be said about buying a stock […]
Retailer Bed Bath and Beyond has put in a nice rally so far in 2019, after being on a huge slide the last 4 years. Things don’t look quite as promising as we had hoped though. Bed Bath and Beyond has simply been a horrible stock over the last 4 years. For the first half […]
While the release of Lyft’s initial public offering made a lot of headlines, they are just the warm-up act for big brother Uber. The crowd is on the unruly side though, so care must be taken. If the IPO that Lyft just launched is any indication, the initial ride down stock market street may not […]
Levi Strauss’ first earnings call since its recent IPO was mostly upbeat, with good earnings results, although the company’s long-term debt does concern some analysts. Levi Strauss’ IPO last month hasn’t gone quite the way a lot of people had hoped, at least those looking to trade it in the secondary market, perhaps looking to […]
Gold as an investment has been in a real rut over the past 6 years, a period of time where it hasn’t gained a thing. Analyst Chris Terry thinks it is due for a revival soon. There’s just not a lot of excitement with gold these days, with investors at least. 6 years ago, gold […]
The European Union has enough to worry about these days, with the economy and the Brexit escapade. They now have to deal with a very real threat of $11 billion in tariffs. The United States and the European Union have been battling over the fairness of European subsidies to leading aircraft maker Airbus for 14 […]
In spite of marked improvement in profit lately, U.S. Steel stock has had a rough time over the last year, losing 60%. With more concerns on the horizon, the outlook dims further. President Trump is well known for being willing to use any weapon at his disposal when negotiating, and his use of Section 232 […]
While many of us work away at putting money away for retirement, we do so without a real sense of what we will need. When we look at how we are doing, the numbers are terrible. It is no secret that Americans really don’t put as much into their retirement as they should. Perhaps we […]