Over the last few weeks, I’ve been turning my attention more and more to companies in the Health Care sector, simply because as COVID-19 quickly turned from a distant, overseas problem to a global crisis that has now impacted the world on multiple levels, health care is among the few areas of the economy that […]
Read MoreBeing a contrarian investor can mean a few different things. One is that contrarian investing is often correlated with value investing, and I think that makes sense in a lot of ways. That includes the reality that all price trends – up or down – are finite in length and duration. That means that eventually, […]
Read MoreThe market seems to be looking for reasons to start functioning something relatively close to normal right now – at least, as much as normal is possible under current circumstances. Last week saw the major indices stage their biggest short-term rally in the last seven decades as investors used unprecedented Fed action to inject the […]
Read MoreInvestors, like the entire the market, and like all of us seem anxious to find some kind, any kind of reason to see hope in the future – either for the prospect of seeing some form of a “return to normal” for the U.S. at large. Get the kids going back to school, churches open […]
Read MoreAs I’ve studied the market over the years, one of the intriguing contrasts comes in the way different analysis methods take in the “big picture” of the market. That includes the way that fundamental investors and analysts look at the market versus those that prefer to work on strictly technical terms. I like to work […]
Read MoreThe early part of this week has been punctuated, if not by optimism, than at least by an increasing sense of hope that the U.S. might be reaching a peak in the spread of COVID-19 infection. If that is true, then it also makes sense that there is a light at the end of the […]
Read MoreWith the entire world’s focus – financial market or otherwise – turned almost exclusively to coronavirus, social distancing, and how long it is going to take for the world to return to any kind of normalcy in the foreseeable future, it isn’t all that surprising to see market commentary emphasizing health care. I’ve spent enough […]
Read MoreAs an investor that prefers to focus on value, my preference is to emphasize stocks that are currently trading at significant discounts to their basic valuation metrics. That usually means that most of my attention is directed on stocks that are also trading at or near to yearly or historical lows. That also means that […]
Read MoreOver the weekend, the focus in news media seems to have shifted a bit. It isn’t that discussion and commentary has materially changed – COVID-19, and its accelerating rate of infection in the U.S. is still front and center – but as it relates to the market and the economy, much of the conversation is […]
Read MoreAt the beginning of my career in the financial industry, I was a licensed rep for one of the largest mutual fund and discount brokerage companies in North America. Looking over the mutual funds that we offered, and digging into their respective investment philosophies was something I found to be really fascinating. It wasn’t just […]
Read MoreI often observe, and write about the need to try to filter through the “noise” of the market to find the right ways and places to put your money to work for you. A lot of that noise, of course comes from media outlets, including market news. The irony of my observation is that it […]
Read MoreI had to chuckle this weekend a bit as I read some some market news reports. The market has dropped far enough that in the latter part of the week, I think investors were starting to look for reasons to start buying. Friday looked set to mark the first time in weeks the market managed […]
Read MoreInstead of following my normal routine, which is to highlight a specific stock, I think today it’s probably a good idea to pull the lens back and take a look at the broader market. It’s practically impossible to ignore the fact that the market dropped into bear market territory last week. Fear and, yes, even […]
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