No matter what the market or economy is doing at any given time – bull market, bear market, expansion, contraction, or stagnation – one of the things that makes it compelling is the reality that there is always a new opportunity to take advantage of. That doesn’t mean that you can ignore broad market conditions […]
Read MoreIf you think strictly about price performance and what the price of a stock is now relative to where it was in the past – in particular, relative to where it was on a pre-pandemic basis – it’s pretty easy to understand why so much attention is being paid to Tech stocks that make remote […]
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 MoreIn the world of COVID-19, it’s been interesting to see not only how corporations have evolved to survive and get by, but also how consumer behaviors and trends have adjusted as well. Broad-based shutdowns that shuttered businesses all over the U.S. at the beginning of the pandemic sent people home for an indefinite period of […]
Read MoreThe last few weeks appear to have brought uncertainty back to the market. Rising infections in a number of states seem to coincide with the reopening of schools, with the demographics showing most of those infections coming among teen to college-age young people. To some, that might not sound like a big deal, but it […]
Read More“Coronavirus exhaustion” may not be a real term – but I do believe it’s a real thing. Over the last few months, it seems that there is real fatigue about hearing more news about COVID-19, vaccine trials, or the importance of hand washing and mask wearing. That comes in the face of increasing infection rates […]
Read MoreThroughout the year, I’ve been fascinated to watch market and consumer trend shift and adjust to pandemic-induced conditions. Not all of those shifts have been pleasant, even if they were necessary; as an analyst, though it is important to understand where those changes fit into the current market and economic landscape. It is also useful […]
Read MoreOne of the interesting threads that comes out of periods of market volatility is a wave of investor rotation into “defensive” sectors, which usually includes Utilities, Consumer Staples and other pockets of the market that investors tend to think of as safe havens when market uncertainty is high. Another favorite topic analysts seem to like […]
Read MoreThrough the summer, one of the best sectors of the stock market’s rally back to, and even above pre-pandemic levels has been the Materials sector. Beginning in mid-May to the end of the last week, the sector had increased in value by more than 71% as measured by the S&P 500 Materials Sector SPDR (XLB). […]
Read MoreSometimes there are forces that affect a sector or industry in such a way that it creates a storyline that extends into not merely weeks, or months, but years. These can be positive or negative, but one of the things that I find interesting as an analyst is to look for those threads and try […]
Read MoreIt’s kind of funny to see how popular opinion among investors shifts under different conditions. A stock market that has recovered in record time from the fastest plunge to bear market low in recorded history, in the face of the pandemic that prompted the downturn in the first place continues practically unabated, has prompted investors […]
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 MoreSometimes market, economic, and other forces work on a global scale to turn against an industry in such a way that even long-term forecasts remain uncertain. The Aerospace industry is a good example of what I mean; the global spread of COVID-19, which as of this morning has now taken more than 900,000 lives brought […]
Read MoreWhile investing strategies fall in and out of favor with popular market news media types and talking heads depending on the shifting winds of opinion and popular preference at any given time, I think value analysis provides the best way to find stocks that you can work with in any market or economic environment. That […]
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