A big question investors are trying to wrap their heads around is why the headlines suddenly matter to equities in 2018. There were geopolitical concerns in 2017, yet stocks were sanguine. This year, negative headlines seem to impact stocks more. There’s no doubt some of the uncertainties could affect stocks in the intermediate term. In…
It’s nice to see one of my shorts, Pier One, get clobbered after hours. Here’s a longer-term view. In my estimation, firm support is at $0.
In the original whitepaper, Satoshi Nakamoto envisioned Bitcoin as a peer-to-peer version of electronic cash that would facilitate transactions without the oversight on a trustworthy, centralized party. Since then, cryptocurrency has surged in popularity as an asset class – and Bitcoin is now just one of many digital currencies out there. Investment has poured into…
CNBC’s Deirdre Bosa reports on the quarterly earnings report for American Express.
Silver was the quiet star of the market action today, breaking out and above of the 17 handle level. Stocks rallied early and then stalled. They are pushing up against some more significant resistance levels on the charts as can be easily seen. I watched the Cleveland Indians and Minnesota Twins play the first of…
Good is bad, up is down, stocks are safe, war is peace… The Dow underperformed notably, driven mostly by IBM weakness (swiping 84 points off The Dow), but Trannies surged once again… Futures show overnight gains, a dump at the open followed by panic-buying… and then a weak close… Big bank stocks are not…
The Chart of the Day belongs to Varonis Systems (VRNS). I found the data management software stock by using Barchart to sort Barchart’s Top Stocks to Own list first by the highest Weighted Alpha, then I used the Flipchart feature to review the charts for consistent price appreciation over the past 6 month period.The List ranks stocks by the highest current…
Since putting in a major bottom in 2009, the U.S. equity market has dramatically outperformed the rest of the world. This may have something to do with the fact that the Fed explicitly encouraged greater risk-taking on the part of investors by buying up trillions of dollars of risk-free instruments over that span. But now…
A broker from a big bank just did something I’d never do… He put a number on the potential value of the blockchain market. If you think, as I do, that blockchain technology will expand from dozens of uses to hundreds and then thousands, how can you calculate a precise market value for that? It’s like Thomas…
Introduction This is the fourth of a five-part series presenting 50 dividend growth stocks that I have screened for current fair value. With this article, I will be covering 10 additional dividend growth research candidates with moderate to higher yields in addition to the initial 30 that I presented in part 1 found here, part 2 found…
