Over the past year, a lot of the various sectors in the market have rebounded from their coronavirus-driven bear market lows to not only drive back to their pre-pandemic highs, but also to establish new highs well above those previous levels. On the back of expectations that as the year progresses, health crisis pressures will […]
Read MoreWhen economists and market analysts look back at the last year and talk about the most impactful trends that emerged as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the conversation inevitably steers towards remote work. Corporations around the world were forced to adjust their operational models in rapid fashion, sending large numbers of their workers to […]
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 MoreOver the last year, COVID-19 has forced businesses in just about every segment of the economy to find ways to adjust. The adoption by corporate America to work-from-home models helped keep a lot of people working, and one of the most intriguing success stories that I think will continue to be told for years to […]
Read MoreNo matter what current market conditions are at any given time, the point of value-oriented investing is to find stocks that offer attractive long-term upside. For my approach, that means using a combination of valuation, fundamental strength, and technical analysis to filter through the thousands of stocks that are available. The market’s rally to fresh […]
Read MoreOne of the challenges that investors have had to deal with throughout the past year is the market’s divergence from economic facts on the ground. From the early stages of the pandemic, analysts could not agree whether the expected, eventual recovery from both a health and economic-driven perspective would manifest as by a move back […]
Read MoreOne of the big headlines to start the week has been the long-anticipated FDA approval of the first coronavirus vaccine in the United States. News media were all over shipping companies in the early hours of market trading today outlining in detail how the vaccine was being distributed on a nationwide basis. The scrutiny and […]
Read MoreFor many investors, value investing is a useful to analyze potential investment opportunities because of the way that it naturally gravitates to stocks that are generally already at or near historical low prices. That sounds counter-intuitive to most of us, because the overwhelming majority of analysts and talking heads always talk more about stocks that […]
Read MoreOne of the things I like about value investing is the way that it naturally gravitates to stocks that are generally already at or near historical low prices. Under normal circumstances, that usually means that the downside risk aspect of buying a stock is minimized simply because the market is usually more likely to push […]
Read MoreThe market’s uncertainty over the last couple of weeks appears to have raised the spectre of increasing downside risk, even as the market this week has managed to reclaim a portion of the drop to correction territory that started earlier this month. It is clear that while the stock market pushed past its pre-pandemic highs […]
Read MoreThe tech sector has been a bright spot during the COVID-19 pandemic. There are multiple factors that I think are contributing to that reality. Those include signs of increasing recovery and economic activity in China, where a major portion of manufacturing activity for semiconductor companies takes place, and the ability of a large number of […]
Read MoreNo matter what your investing philosophy is, or how you go about identifying stocks in which to consider putting your money to work, one of the most basic questions you have to ask yourself if whether the potential opportunity outweighs the opposite potential for loss. I like to call that portion of my system reward: […]
Read MoreOne of the biggest questions value-oriented investors have to ask themselves is the reason a stock may look like a good bargain. More often than not, one of the simplest reasons is because the stock has been beaten down by the broad market. The reasons for the decline can be multitudinous, and can imply any […]
Read MoreMoving deeper into a new earnings season, it is true that a number of the largest and most recognized names in the market have been posting better earnings results in the last quarter than expected. In many cases, companies have displayed an impressive ability to shift gears from traditional, office-based work arrangements to nearly complete […]
Read MoreTrade Setup Buy Target: $11.67 Sell Target: 12.80 Cloudera, Inc. provides a suite of data analytics and management products in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The company operates through two segments, Subscription and Services. It offers Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub that allows companies to execute various analytic functions against a shared set of governed […]
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