When 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 MoreAs the pace and progress of vaccinations across the country, and the world begins to increase, more and more commentary is starting to talk in practical terms about concepts like “herd immunity,” when a large enough portion of the population has built antibodies either by recovery from coronavirus or through vaccination itself. Most of the […]
Read MoreThe broad sense of hope that 2021 will set the stage for a broad recovery on multiple fronts seems to be a primary reason the broad indices pushed to a new set of all-time highs at the end of last week, with a total increase since January 1 of a little less than 6%. Indications […]
Read MoreWhile most of the Tech sector has been leading the market throughout the past year, there are some stocks that have definitely not kept pace. That is always true in any sector, not matter what the broad sector momentum looks like, there are always individual companies that will diverge from the normal pattern. In 2020, […]
Read MoreIntel Corp (INTC) is a stock that I’ve followed for quite some time, and that I’ve written about in this space quite a bit over the past year. This is one of the 600-lb gorillas of the Technology sector, after all, and the company that is easily considered the gold standard of companies in the […]
Read MoreApple Inc. (AAPL) is one of the biggest companies in the world; in August of last year, with the stock pushing nicely above $465 per share, they were the first company in the modern era to officially cross the $2 trillion dollar threshold. Over the last ten years or so, it is without a doubt […]
Read MoreNo matter what the current economic climate is, one of the many questions active investors have to try to answer is what sectors and industries in the market provide the best opportunities. Some industries tend to be cyclical in nature, meaning that their profitability is positively correlated to the ebb and flow of the broad […]
Read MoreRecessionary economic conditions tend to challenge a lot of different segments of the market. Others are usually seen as smart defensive places to put your money to work; I’ve spent a lot of time in this space focusing on some of those kinds of stocks throughout the course of the year. Consumer Staples stocks in […]
Read MoreEarly in my investing career, I put a lot of focus on understanding technical concepts like identifying short-term reversal points as support and resistance, trend formations over time, and how all of that information can be applied against a stock’s current price to recognize signals about a stock’s likely direction across multiple time periods in […]
Read MoreFor more than a year, the Aerospace industry, which includes commercial airlines has been one of the biggest, unquestioned losers in the stock market. Yes, the biggest portion of that drop comes from the reality that the industry took some of the biggest drawdowns in the market starting in February 2020 as commercial travel dried […]
Read MoreOne of the things that I like to do as an economist is to look for emerging trends and markets. For some, an emerging market means looking outside the borders of the U.S. or other, established market economies to areas of the world showing dramatic progress in terms of economic or political progress. For me, […]
Read MoreAs a conservative-minded, value and fundamental-driven investor, my natural tendency is to shy away from stocks that market experts and popular market media analysts tend to talk to the most about. That means that my investments rarely look very sexy – but I’m far less interested in being sexy than I am in being able […]
Read MoreEver since coronavirus found its way to American shores, a lot of media attention has been given to the Healthcare sector – and especially to the Biotechnology industry, where many of the biggest names across the world have been working hard to develop effective treatments for the disease. From the market’s bearish low in mid-March, […]
Read MoreI tend to take most of the information I get from news media with a large grain of salt. That is especially true of market media outlets, which have so much information to try to report about on a daily basis that they really can’t do much more than talk about whatever happens to be […]
Read MoreCisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) is one of the most recognizable and established companies in the Technology sector. With a market cap of about $193 billion, they are also one of the largest, if not THE largest player in the Networking & Communications segment. They are, without question, the standard that all other networking businesses are […]
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