Stocks
Are Stocks Heading For A 2008 Style Crash?
Stocks plunged across the board last week. The Dow dropped 6.4%, the S&P 500 shed 6.5%, and Nasdaq gave up 5.3%. It was the worst week for the markets since October 2008. Several negative events sent investors fleeing from stocks for the perceived safety of US Treasuries. First off, it’s looking more and more likely […]
Is Your Favorite Company A Bad Investment?
Being a fitness nut, I love healthy food. I really do. And when I find a great food option for eating out, I get really excited. Let’s face it… do you really want to cook if you can help it? But unfortunately, most restaurants are unhealthy. In the hectic world we live in, eating out […]
Sentiment Data Points To Higher Market
The latest consumer sentiment numbers came out on Friday. Thomson Reuters and the University of Michigan provided preliminary figures from the widely followed consumer sentiment index. And the numbers are encouraging. The data show consumer confidence crept up from 55.7 in August to 57.8 in September. While the index is still mired at extremely low […]
The Key To Huge Biotech Profits
Year in and year out a good number of top performing stocks come out of the high flying biotech sector. And with good reason. Biotechs are exciting! These companies are working on treatments and cures for all kinds of diseases. They use the latest technologies to identify compounds with potential to be the next blockbuster […]
Leave Yahoo To The Yahoos!
Last weekend I went to St. Louis for my cousin’s wedding. I joined hundreds of relatives and friends from all over the world to see the young couple take their vows. And it was beautiful to say the least. It really warms the heart to see two bright, young people in love make the ultimate […]
Agribusiness Stocks Are Breaking Out
“Dad, you know I love this place… but I’m not coming back to the farm.” It was an easy decision for me at the time. Back in 2001, corn prices were still cheap. And it was hard to make a living producing corn. For nearly 30 years, corn prices fluctuated between $2 and $4 per […]
Tech Investing: Now’s The Time To Buy Tech!
The markets haven’t given us much to be optimistic about lately. Obviously, an 18% correction in the S&P 500 this summer is anything but bullish. Yet, that’s exactly what happened from July 21st to August 9th. The S&P 500 shed 247 points as panicked investors hit the sell button. And the choppy market action since […]
Stock Market Investing: Will September Be Better Than August?
I’m sure more than a few investors are breathing a sigh of relief right about now… Why? August finally came to a close yesterday. And anybody who’s been watching the markets will tell you… last month was a doozy. Bad economic news mixed with extreme volatility made for one of the worst market performances in […]
Avoid Buying A Value Trap
Traders have a lot of funny sayings about stocks, almost all of them filled with contradictions… “What goes up, must come down” or “Don’t try to catch a falling knife” come to mind immediately. These highly generalized statements apply accurately to many different things. They’re overly simplistic statements of common sense. I mean really, who […]
