Over the last couple of days, I’ve highlighted a couple of the biggest players in the Electronic Equipment industry that supplies the entire Technology sector. I think it’s always interesting, and useful to pay attention to the industries that supply a sector with the materials, services, and manufacturing or fabrication services it relies on. Since […]
Read MoreBerkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A, BRK.B) Finance Corp. is now issuing 30-year fixed-rate bonds to refinance $950 million of floating-rate senior notes that are maturing at the end of next week. But the switch from floating to fixed-rate is what’s piquing curiosity as it seems to be a bet on where interest rates might be heading, […]
Read MoreDid you study the California gold rush in your high school history class? I did, and I remember that one of the most interesting things to me about it was the fact that over the seven years that marked the period, the people that made the most money weren’t prospectors; they were the entrepreneurs that […]
Read MoreETF fund providers Direxion and ProShares specialize in leveraged fund products that cover a multitude of markets, sectors and assets. Therefore, it shouldn’t be surprising that these providers manage the most actively traded leveraged gold ETFs in the marketplace. These leveraged gold funds come at a cost though. Due to the frequent trading and fund management necessary […]
Read MoreDecember was a rough month for stocks, with small caps leading the market in its selloff. While the S&P 500 did briefly dip into bear market territory in a brutal Christmas Eve crash, the Russell 2000 small-cap benchmark had already entered into a bear market with small caps more than 20% off their previous highs. […]
Read MoreBlackRock (NYSE: BLK) chief equity strategist Kate Moore said in an interview with Bloomberg Television this week that the world’s largest money manager is “not giving up on technology” stocks. “The tech sector is still a well-liked and well-loved sector across BlackRock,” Moore said. But this year, it may be out with the old and […]
Read MoreWhile this week we’ve seen the longest winning streak in the market since September, Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) says investors still need to be careful in this uncertain environment. Growth in the U.S. is expected to slow to 2.3% this year, according to the Fed. This is a significant slow down from last year, when […]
Read MoreWednesday was a good day for marijuana stock Canopy Growth (NYSE: CGC) as news of newly initiated coverage from Piper Jaffray sent shares surging 13% – the stock’s best day since October. Piper Jaffray joins a short but growing list of brokerages watching the cannabis sector, and analyst Michael Lavery said that while they “still […]
Read MoreWhen market uncertainty gives way to fear, stocks generally tend to fall, and while the market in the past week has been trying to rebound from lows in December that tested bear market territory for the major indices, the general tone has really focused more on the negative than anything else. If investors and analysts […]
Read MoreSince September of 2018, virtually every sector in the market has entered correction, or bear market territory. That pattern is still holding true despite the market’s rally since the beginning of the new year, and so it’s pretty rare to find a stock right now that is actually following a bullish trend. Even more rare, […]
Read MoreOver the last several years, one of the biggest benchmarks the Fed has used to evaluate the need to raise, lower or maintain their interest rate policy has been the employment rate. Every month, the market seems to hold its breath as a new set of unemployment and salary data is made available and everybody […]
Read MoreSince the Christmas break, the market has seen a lot of volatility, but it has also used positive, trade and interest rate-related news over the last week to rally off of lows that tested bear market territory. Of all of the sectors that make up the market, no sector has rallied more in that period […]
Read MoreWe’ve had a rough start to the new year so far. And after such a volatile 2018, it’s hard to predict where things will land in 2019. Investors do have reason to be optimistic this year—the economy is still relatively strong—however, the trends that made the end of last year so challenging remain and investors […]
Read MoreAfter closing out the year on a decidedly negative note, and leaving more and more investors guessing that 2019 could be the year the market, and the economy officially turns bearish, stocks generally rebounded over the last week. The market seems to have decided to use the market’s drop to near-bear market levels in December […]
Read MoreWarren Buffett is justifiably considered as one of the most successful investors of all time. The methods he employs to identify long-term investment opportunities have been thoroughly documented, by himself and others, and copied by value-oriented investors for decades. The annual reports he writes for Berkshire Hathaway are considered required reading in many investor quarters […]
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