Over the last week or so, I’ve written about a few companies in the Food Products industry that I think offer some interesting possibilities under current market conditions – something that is even more true if the market sees an increase in short-term volatility. Investors are putting a lot of focus on geopolitics right now, […]
Read MoreWhile the market in the United States was closed for the President’s Day holiday, Asia and Europe were open, and seemingly positive news on the trade front between the United States and China gave those markets reason to bounce higher. Investors have been anxious over the last couple of weeks to price the expectation of […]
Read MoreConsumer Discretionary stocks are interesting in any market conditions because so many of them are subject to cycles that don’t necessarily coincide with normal economic cycles. One of the sub-industries within the sector that I think fit this description is tax services. That is because, moving into the latter stages of winter towards spring, one […]
Read MoreWhen it comes to identifying stocks that might make useful investments, there are as many strategies as there are people. You can break these strategies into any different number of categories. I like to differentiate between strategies by thinking first about the amount of time I might actually plan to hold the stock in question, […]
Read MoreMost long-term investors put a heavy emphasis on fundamental analysis to help guide their decisions about what stocks they should pay attention to. In that vein, one of the big questions that most investors like to try to answer is what kind of returns they can realistically expect over time. That might sound funny since […]
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, […]
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