Chinese stocks have had a rough year. And iQiyi (NASDAQ: IQ) is no exception. iQiyi was spun off from Chinese search giant Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) earlier this year and debuted at $18 per share on March 30. Shares climbed 61% above the IPO price by June, but since then, have fallen precipitously and the price […]
Read MoreGird your loins. We’re in for another rocky year in 2019. That’s according to Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), who sees slowing economic growth and continued fits of volatility in the new year, which will make 2019 another crap year for risk-adjusted investment returns. “Expect better but still low returns in 2019,” wrote Goldman’s strategists in […]
Read MoreOn Monday, the yield curve inverted when the interest rate on five-year Treasury bonds slipped below the rate on three-year bonds for the first time since the beginning of the country’s last recession back in 2007. That’s certainly a worrying sign as such inversions are typically associated with being the sounding alarm for recessions. So […]
Read MoreA cryptocurrency is a digital or virtual currency designed to work as a medium of exchange. It uses cryptography to secure and verify transactions as well as to control the creation of new units of a particular cryptocurrency. Essentially, cryptocurrencies are limited entries in a database that no one can change unless specific conditions are […]
Read MoreUNITED STATES ECONOMIC DATA AND STATISTICS, GENERAL 1. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics(link is external) – Employment, productivity, working hours, and more. 2. U.S. Federal Reserve(link is external) – Bank assets, exchange rates, interest rates, industrial activity, and more. 3. U.S. Treasury(link is external) – Data, statistics, and charts on interest rates, economic trends, and the impact of fiscal policies. 4. U.S. […]
Read MoreOnce the stock market bottomed at the end of October, the major market indices all rallied. Some of that rally lost steam yesterday and pushed all three major indices into negative territory for the last 30 days; but one of the sectors that really seems to have benefited is the Materials sector. At the beginning […]
Read MoreOne of the challenges associated with mature bull markets is the fact that they generally reflect a healthy overall economic backdrop. Why is that a challenge? Because when investors begin to recognize the fact that the economy has been healthy for a long time, the natural next question starts become how much longer it can […]
Read MoreUntil the beginning of this week, the market seemed to be getting more and more bearish every day. After watching the major market indices all decline by more than 10% in October, they staged a short-lived rally at the beginning of November, only to turn back again with a resounding series of consecutive down days […]
Read MoreSince the beginning of October, shares of Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) are down roughly -50%. But this week, the stock is finally starting to show signs of life again and is up about 14% as I write this. Several factors have weighed on the stock in the last two months. The trade war, investors’ […]
Read MorePopular Science put out a fantastic list this week of the 100 Greatest Innovations of 2018. Broken down into categories ranging from household gadgets to achievements in aerospace and advanced weaponry, these innovations and inventions run the gamut from the futuristic to the everyday. Here are a few of the inventions that piqued my interest […]
Read MoreEver wonder what it would have been like to get in on Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) or Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL, GOOG) on the ground floor? Of course you have, we all have. While it can be difficult to know which stocks will explode higher over the next several years, a great place to start is to […]
Read MoreList of OIL ETFs and ETNs USO – United States Oil Fund ETF USL – United States 12 Month Oil Fund ETF DNO – United States Short Oil Fund ETF UHN – United States Heating Oil Fund ETF DBO – Power Shares DB Oil Fund UCO – ProShares Ultra DJ-AIG Crude Oil ETF SCO – […]
Read MoreThings are looking dicey. Geopolitical tensions are rising, and the stock market feels like its in free-fall. Considering that, safe have gold miner stocks should be a no-brainer on your buy list right now. Gold miner stocks have been beaten up this year, but don’t expect these stocks to stay down for long. Analysts expect […]
Read More2018 has been a rough year. And late last week, Bloomberg put out a chart that will make you wish you had put all your money on T-bills in the last 11 months. If you take out volatility, this year’s cross-asset performance is the worst in more than a century. $3 trillion of U.S. stock […]
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