The Bond Yield Curve: A Review The yield curve is simply the yields on bonds of varying maturities, typically from three months to 30 years, plotted on a graph. The yield curve illustrates what is called “the term structure of interest rates,” or the idea that a bond´s maturity and yield are connected. Typically, but […]
Read More52-Week High/Low – The 52-week high and low for a stock represents the highest closing price and the lowest closing price the stock has traded at over a 52-week period. Analyst Ratings – Analyst ratings or stock ratings, such as “Buy”, “Sell”, and “Hold” are an evaluation of a stock’s expected performance and/or it’s risk […]
Read MoreFor the first time in a decade, investors are better off with safe, liquid securities like cash than with the S&P 500 Index. That’s according to JPMorgan Asset Management, with $260 billion under management. JPMorgan’s multi-asset strategy team upgraded its recommendation this week on U.S. cash to overweight for 2019. “Our cash and duration overweights […]
Read MoreThe stock market has felt like a roller coaster lately with more down days than up. Just this week, we witnessed the Dow drop more than 800 points on Tuesday and watched the market continue to fall on Thursday. This after two difficult months of a broad market sell-off. Big tech stocks have been some […]
Read MoreDirexion is a leading ETF provider known mostly for its leveraged and inverse ETFs. It has non-leveraged funds in its exchange-traded product line as well. The firm offers numerous ETFs, and like any successful fund provider, Direxion has quite a few ETFs in development as well. Here’s a list of all of Direxion’s current ETFs that trade on […]
Read MoreTuesday’s stock sell-off sent PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) stock spiraling downward, pushing the stock into correction territory after it fell more than 10% off its 52-week highs. But Todd Gordon, the founder of TradingAnalysis.com, told CNBC on Tuesday, that “The stock has hung in extremely well in this period of volatility” and is now primed for […]
Read MoreChinese stocks have had a rough year. And iQiyi (NASDAQ: IQ) is no exception. iQiyi was spun off from Chinese search giant Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) earlier this year and debuted at $18 per share on March 30. Shares climbed 61% above the IPO price by June, but since then, have fallen precipitously and the price […]
Read MoreGird your loins. We’re in for another rocky year in 2019. That’s according to Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), who sees slowing economic growth and continued fits of volatility in the new year, which will make 2019 another crap year for risk-adjusted investment returns. “Expect better but still low returns in 2019,” wrote Goldman’s strategists in […]
Read MoreOn Monday, the yield curve inverted when the interest rate on five-year Treasury bonds slipped below the rate on three-year bonds for the first time since the beginning of the country’s last recession back in 2007. That’s certainly a worrying sign as such inversions are typically associated with being the sounding alarm for recessions. So […]
Read MoreA cryptocurrency is a digital or virtual currency designed to work as a medium of exchange. It uses cryptography to secure and verify transactions as well as to control the creation of new units of a particular cryptocurrency. Essentially, cryptocurrencies are limited entries in a database that no one can change unless specific conditions are […]
Read MoreUNITED STATES ECONOMIC DATA AND STATISTICS, GENERAL 1. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics(link is external) – Employment, productivity, working hours, and more. 2. U.S. Federal Reserve(link is external) – Bank assets, exchange rates, interest rates, industrial activity, and more. 3. U.S. Treasury(link is external) – Data, statistics, and charts on interest rates, economic trends, and the impact of fiscal policies. 4. U.S. […]
Read MoreOnce the stock market bottomed at the end of October, the major market indices all rallied. Some of that rally lost steam yesterday and pushed all three major indices into negative territory for the last 30 days; but one of the sectors that really seems to have benefited is the Materials sector. At the beginning […]
Read MoreOne of the challenges associated with mature bull markets is the fact that they generally reflect a healthy overall economic backdrop. Why is that a challenge? Because when investors begin to recognize the fact that the economy has been healthy for a long time, the natural next question starts become how much longer it can […]
Read MoreUntil the beginning of this week, the market seemed to be getting more and more bearish every day. After watching the major market indices all decline by more than 10% in October, they staged a short-lived rally at the beginning of November, only to turn back again with a resounding series of consecutive down days […]
Read MoreSince the beginning of October, shares of Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) are down roughly -50%. But this week, the stock is finally starting to show signs of life again and is up about 14% as I write this. Several factors have weighed on the stock in the last two months. The trade war, investors’ […]
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