Over the last year and a half, the Tech sector has led the market, where a number of stocks not only recovered their pre-pandemic highs but even surged to entirely new highs as investors piled into just about anything with even a tangential relationship to the global business shift to remote, cloud-based operations. The momentum […]
Read MoreThe tide may be changing for these 2 stocks. Here’s why traders say they could be about to head higher.
Read MoreFor the last year and a half, 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 […]
Read MoreFrom late March to the first part of April, one of the attention-grabbing stories in the market was the fall of ViacomCBS Inc. (VIAC) from a peak at around $102 within less than one week to below $50. VIAC announced announced it would be selling new shares to the market. The news diluted the value […]
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 MoreEnergy prices – particularly in crude oil – were among some of the most dramatically impacted components of the global economy at the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic. As businesses were shuttered, and shelter-in-place orders ground economic activity everywhere to a halt, demand for crude cratered; both West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and Brent crude […]
Read MoreAfter seeing some increasing choppiness in the market last week, the S&P 500 and the Dow pushed to a new set of highs at the beginning of the week. Not surprisingly, the Tech sector has been leading the market higher; as measured by the S&P 500 Technology Sector SPDR (XLK), the sector is up a […]
Read MoreSometimes there are really remarkable events that diverge from the normally expected narrative that plays out in the markets. “Expected” events are what we usually expect to see talking heads discussing and analyzing – economic reports, consumer activity, monetary policy, the way the latest political intrigue will be felt, and for the past year, the […]
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 MoreFor most of the past year, any examination of the Pharmaceutical industry begins and ends with COVID-19 vaccines. Literally, of course, this isn’t true; diseases of all kinds don’t take a holiday during a pandemic, and so development of existing projects for any company in this industry hasn’t stopped, either. Nonetheless, the massive, immediate impact […]
Read MoreLast week’s spike in the market’s “fear gauge” could be a warning for the market. Here’s what you need to know now.
Read MoreFor the stock market, 2021 clearly appears to reflect investor’s desire to move away from the pandemic-dominated conversations of 2020 and look ahead. One of the ways that has been seen over the last few weeks is in a pretty broad rotation away from conservative, defensive-oriented stocks in sectors like Consumer Staples and into more […]
Read MorePart of taking a smart, value-based approach to investing in the stock market involves keeping track of information on industry and economic trends that are likely to have broad residual impacts on market activity. That means paying attention to things that often get talked about on financial media like unemployment and interest rates. I have […]
Read MoreThe longer a bull market lasts, the more extended price valuations become. The longer that condition continues, the harder it becomes for value-oriented investors to justify long-term investments in most of the stocks, industries and sectors that everybody else is talking about. I think this picture is starting to fit current market conditions, as valuations […]
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