Stocks
Market Spooked By Disappointing Earnings
Halloween is right around the corner. It’s the favorite day of the year for millions of American children. They get to dress up in scary costumes and go door-to-door collecting candy from their neighbors. But for the stock market, Halloween came early this year. On Friday, the ghosts of stock market crashes past spooked investors […]
Get Ready For A 20% Market Plunge?
With the S&P 500 trading at its highest level since May 2008, you’d think Wall Street analysts and big-wig investors would be sharpening their bullish horns. But it isn’t the case. In fact, stock market bears are starting to roar… For example, Goldman Sachs analyst, David Kostin, has the S&P 500 trading at 1,250 by […]
Sectors To Watch: Earnings Or Elections?
The S&P 500 has been stuck in neutral the last few weeks. At this point, the large cap index is locked in a tight trading range between 1,430 on the low end and 1,465 on the high end. One thing’s for sure, this wasn’t the result many were expecting after Fed Chairman Bernanke announced QE3. […]
Get Ready For A Bumpy Ride…
Investors will be turning their attention to corporate bottom lines this week as third quarter earnings season kicks off. Unfortunately, it looks like the market will be in for a bumpy ride. According to the Financial Times, analysts are expecting “one of the worst quarterly earnings seasons since late 2009.” In fact, those who forecast […]
Will Stocks Head Higher From Here?
US stocks closed out their best third quarter since 2010 last week. For the three month period ending in September, the S&P 500 finished in the black by a solid 5.9%. That move puts the popular large cap index up over 14% year-to-date. I know it’s hard to believe. With all the negative fundamental data […]
Tesla Motors (TSLA): Bears Are Betting Big… Should You?
Electric cars. Love em’ or hate em’, they’re slowly making their way into garages across America. Of course, just like any emerging technology, there are plenty of speed bumps on the road to widespread adoption. Perfect example… the Chevy Volt. Thanks to General Motor’s (GM) well-publicized fiasco with the car, Americans are associating the Volt […]
A Biotech Stock With Big Upside Potential
The Fed’s latest round of quantitative easing, QE3 or QE Unlimited as some are calling it, has lit a fire under the stock market. The S&P 500 is up a hefty 3.6% so far this month. And the mega-cap index is now trading at levels not seen in nearly five years. What’s more, investors are […]
The Best Way To Profit From QE3
Following August’s lackluster jobs report, the Fed has decided to take additional steps to boost economic growth and curtail unemployment. In case you missed it, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke made a critical announcement late last week. He said the central bank is officially launching a third round of quantitative easing (QE3). Under the plan, the […]
Economists Do About Face – Say QE3 Coming This Week!
In my article from two weeks ago, Will He Or Won’t He?, I discussed the odds of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke announcing a new round of quantitative easing at the Jackson Hole, Wyoming conference. And as I expected, Mr. Bernanke held off on making any such grand pronouncement. Instead, the beleaguered Fed Chairman used the […]
Americans Are Loading Up On Guns…
‘Go ahead punk, make my day…’ The quote made famous by Clint Eastwood in the 1971 movie, Dirty Harry, is most likely being repeated by Smith & Wesson (SWHC) CEO James Debney this morning. Why? Debney’s company announced fiscal first quarter 2013 earnings after the close last night. And after seeing the results, it’s fair […]
