Month: October 2018

Consumer Staples
Value Investing

Getting defensive: how GIS might be a calm center amidst the market’s current storm

There’s nothing quite like a volatile stock market to start rattling nerves and make people wonder how long it’s going to last, or if the market will ever be the same again. After coming within a whisper of official bear market territory on Monday, stocks rebounded strongly, as all three major market indices rallied more […]

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Panic Selling
Risk

Dogs of the S&P 500? These 3 stocks crashed 20% or more this week but could be good values now

The market closed a volatile week with yet another selloff on Friday, and has managed to push both the S&P 500 as well as the Dow Jones Industrial Average nearly into correction territory with the NASDAQ 100. Along the way, investors, analysts and experts everywhere are now asking the question about where the market is […]

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Fundamentals

Fundamental strength alone isn’t enough to make TXN a good buy right now

The last couple of weeks have seen market volatility return in a big way, and with it fear seems to be increasing quite a bit this week. I think part of it is because investors are starting to realize how close the market is right now to an important inflection point. As of yesterday’s close, […]

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Breaking News

3 Bargain Stocks With 45%+ Upside In The Next 12 Months

Times have been tough for stocks in the last several days. Stocks traded down sharply on Thursday after hawkish minutes from last month’s Fed meeting confirmed the assumption that there will be more rate hikes in the near term. The S&P 500 was down 1.4% on Thursday, and sank another 1% on Friday. The Dow […]

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Marijuana

The 2 Pot Stocks This Billionaire Has Invested His Personal Money In

Billionaire hedge fund investor Leon Cooperman, founder of Omega Advisors and former partner at Goldman Sachs, confirmed to CNBC Wednesday that he has invested his personal money in the cannabis space. His investments include CannTrust Holdings (OTC: CNTTF, TSX: TRST.TO) and Green Thumb Industries (OTC: GTBIF), whose founder, Ben Kovler, introduced Cooperman to the cannabis […]

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Fundamentals
Risk
Value Investing

The small cap stock you’ve never heard of – but that could be the best bargain in the Materials sector

Since hitting an all-time early this year, the Materials sector has seen some of the biggest declines in the broad market. And even while today marked a big surge in price for practically every economic sector, Materials still dropped, putting their decline since late January at about -16% and nearly -11.5% year-to-date as measured by […]

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Bonds
Recession

This Billionaire Investor Says “Bonds Are The Bubble, Not Stocks”

Many of the biggest names in the financial world have been sounding the alarm bells that a recession is looming as stocks have reached record valuations. But billionaire Leon Cooperman, founder of Omega Advisors with nearly $4 billion under management and former partner at Goldman Sachs, disagrees and sees no signs of recession on the […]

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Marijuana

These 2 Pot Stocks Could Be Takeover Targets

Pot stocks have seemed to be constantly climbing in the past few months in the lead-up to the opening of Canada’s recreational market next week and as states across the U.S. pass new legalization measures. Investors are eating up cannabis stocks with the expectation that sales are about to explode higher and share prices along […]

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