This morning, the market is trying to rebound from the worst single-day performance since October 1987, and certainly one of the worst weeks on record. The carnage has rippled through just about every sector of the market. I don’t think it’s too surprising, given the way coronavirus has continued to dominate practically every single headline. […]
Read MoreThe financial markets aren’t alone – or even leading the way – when it comes to reactionary, over-the-top fear about coronavirus. Last weekend, my wife and I were making our weekly run to the grocery store to stock up on the typical essentials. While this may not surprise you, it did surprise me to see […]
Read MoreAny experienced investor, no matter what their investment philosophy is, will undoubtedly tell you that one of the most useful ways they keep track of new opportunities as they come up is by maintaining a watchlist of stocks that they can check on a regular basis. A good, diversified list of stocks in a variety […]
Read MoreIn the last week, uncertainty and concern related to the increasing spread of coronavirus on a wider, global basis (including the U.S., on a relatively smaller scale) officially gave way to panic; for the week, the Dow Jones Industrial average shed more than 4,000 points from its last peak in the middle of February, which […]
Read MoreMoving into the end of the week, most of the commentary now has started to shift away from whether or not the coronavirus outbreak, which have dominated all of the media’s attention this week, will have a global economic impact to just how severe it is going to be, and how long it is going […]
Read MoreMarket volatility has come back in a big way over the last two days. I don’t think it should be all that surprising, given the way that trade and tariffs have dominated market commentary for most of the last year and a half. Even as officials from both the U.S. and China resumed negotiations last […]
Read MoreDo you remember the last time the stock market was this bad in December? Probably not, as the Dow and S&P 500 are currently on track for their biggest December losses since the country was in the throes of the Great Depression. The S&P 500 has lost nearly 8% of its value so far this […]
Read MoreThe terms I tossed into today’s headline are good examples of what I’m talking about. If you’re an active investor, and you’ve invested time and energy into studying the markets in much detail, you’ve certainly across these terms before, because they are actually very descriptive of a couple of a very specific market conditions, each […]
Read MoreThis week, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management released its list of 10 geopolitical risks that it believes could wreak havoc on the market in 2019. While Morgan Stanley WM sees a few of these scenarios as “frightening but unlikely,” many of the others have surfaced as realities in 2018. Here is the list, from most likely […]
Read MoreIf you were watching the market sell off again yesterday, you probably started to wonder as I did if the market was really starting to follow through on the bearish sentiment that drove it back into correction territory for the Dow and the NASDAQ. The S&P plunged nearly 2% amid worries that the entire tech […]
Read MoreThe market closed a volatile week with yet another selloff on Friday, and has managed to push both the S&P 500 as well as the Dow Jones Industrial Average nearly into correction territory with the NASDAQ 100. Along the way, investors, analysts and experts everywhere are now asking the question about where the market is […]
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