The stock market has recovered a majority of its post-Brexit losses, with the Dow’s 900+ point drop from last Thursday to being less than 100 points down. Investors have different reasons each time, but…
During periods of uncertainty, investors often look for what they find to be value. It should go without saying that an already-slowing international economic picture and then the Brexit shock have added to uncertainty…
The markets bounced handily on Tuesday and Wednesday in the post-Brexit aftermath, and shares were only marginally higher on Thursday morning. Investors may have different reasons each time, but they have proven over and…
It was just last week that investors learned that all of the major banks were shown to have passed their Federal Reserve stress tests. Now the capital return plans (CCAR) have been approved as…
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) keeps moving closer and closer to being an industrial conglomerate rather than a conglomerate that is part industrial and part bank. While the company has been rapidly selling off…
Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MU) is set to launch the unofficial start of earnings season this week when it reports earnings on Thursday. Technically earnings season will not begin for another two weeks, but…
Wednesday’s economic report schedule was a bit on the light side, but there are still plenty of economic and international market events driving the cart. The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported that Personal Income…
The demand for safe-haven trades is becoming almost zany. It seems unthinkable that there was nearly $10 trillion in sovereign debt with negative yields just a few weeks ago. Now the tally for negative…
Tuesday’s bounce was on the heels of two large sell-offs in post-Brexit trading, and shares were up again on Wednesday morning. It is important to remember that investors have found a myriad of reasons…
Many investors have been complaining for years that it is just too hard to make money off of their investment money. The same has become equally true for the online brokerage stocks. It is…
Sometimes market volatility and outside shocks create a rift between market prices and real value. That may currently be the case in the largest stocks in the biotech sector within health care if RBC Capital Markets…
Tuesday’s economic readings already showed a better than expected GDP revision for the first quarter and a gain in the S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index. Now the Conference Board is out with a better…
Did you ever get excited about Gross Domestic Product running just over 1 percent? If your answer is no, even if it is understandable, Tuesday may be an exception. First quarter GDP was given…
Last Friday and this Monday saw extremely ugly post-Brexit trading in the stock market. Banking stocks were hit the hardest, as were most companies and sectors tied to Europe. Tuesday’s market indications were for…
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) keeps selling financial assets. What may be different now versus in 2015 is that the size of each deal seems smaller and smaller. Investors and employees of GE may…
Warren Buffett is deemed by many investors and market watchers to be the greatest investor of the modern era. Some may not agree at all, but Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) is not by accident…
Have you ever heard that politicians will only give the answers to the questions they want to answer, regardless of the question? It seems that businesses may now be in the same vote. The…
When times get tough, equity investors often flock to defensive stocks. This is traditionally food and water, utilities, consumer products, tobacco, beer and booze, and other things that people have to have. In the…
Manufacturing activity is Texas continues to see pressure as the summer gets off to a start. The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas has signaled that June’s manufacturing weakness continues despite the recent recovery in…
ThinkstockLong live the trade deficit! For many Americans the month report on U.S. International Trade in Goods is simply called the U.S. trade deficit. After all, when was the last time anyone saw the…
