Chinese stocks were hit this week both on American exchanges and overseas as Chinese regulators ratcheted up the pressure through antitrust and regulatory steps that caught many executives and investors off guard. The Golden Dragon index of Chinese technology stocks fell by 15% two...
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A crazy earnings season meets a sideways market. Investors have been looking for a narrative that gains traction. Maybe earnings will provide it.
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It’s been a remarkably strong market, not just since the bottom of the pandemic-driven sell-off a little more than a year ago, but over the past decade.
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The bears sure enjoyed a rare day in the sun on Monday. The Dow had its worst day of the year, down more than 3%. Pessimists haven’t loved life like that since March of 2020.
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After last weekend’s successful space flight of Sir Richard Branson, one would have expected Virgin Galactic (SPCE) stock to soar on Monday. Instead, it lost altitude. Sure, the announcement of a $500 million secondary offering leading to dilution was not welcome news, but part of reason...
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There is a Fed meeting today. The ultimate oracle of wisdom will bestow their current thinking upon anxious traders.
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The S&P 500 closed out the second quarter of 2021 at a record high advancing for a fifth consecutive quarter. Meanwhile the Dow and Nasdaq closed just below records and each of these indexes recorded more than 18 record closes during the first of...
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The second quarter ends today. GDP growth is forecasted to be 8.6% for the quarter, one of the best on record. Earnings for the S&P 500 is expected to grow over 60% over last year’s second quarter.
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At about the halfway point of 2021, the S&P 500 has returned 14.8% (a good annual return in most years), continuing its remarkable advance from the depths of the pandemic-led sell-off in March 2020.
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The market is hovering at a high level within bad breath distance of the all-time high. But that factoid is deceiving. The market really has not gone anywhere but sideways for about two months.
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The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) convened on Wednesday and Chairman Jerome Powell and colleagues seem to be inclined to raise benchmark rates sometime next year. At least for now, the Fed kept rates on hold and signaled it would continue its quantitative easing.
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Sideways is a good thing. The market had a huge recovery from the pandemic and really soared between November and May. After such a rapid move higher in a short amount of time, a correction would be normal.
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The 10 highest-paying dividend stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial all yield more than 2.7%. But which of them would I buy today?
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What is a high dividend yield? Are they really that great? Are they worth the money? So many questions! Don't worry, we have answers!
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The market seems to have found its footing this week as the economy reopens amidst some supply shortages and inflationary pressures. Electric vehicle stocks are coming back as Ford announced a big push into EVs and its new F-150 Lightning received 70,000 deposits just...
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The market continues to stumble sideways. On the one hand, the S&P 500 is within a whisker of the all-time high. On the other hand, stocks have been going sideways for about a month.
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The market is in nowheresville. The S&P 500 is at the same level it was in early April. But the index isn’t really down. It’s only 1% below the all-time high. It’s not that the market is going down. It just stopped going up.
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Good investment ideas can come from anywhere. One useful source is to borrow ideas from like-minded investors.
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Oil prices have rebounded, but cheap energy stocks still abound. Here are three that have performed particularly well.
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Markets are a bit jittery despite strong earnings and expected strength as America opens up its post-pandemic economy. China is already at a 5% growth path while India, Japan, and other important economies struggle to get the pandemic under control.
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