Pessimists' claims; Equities at an all-time high; Frighteningly low dividend yield on Standard & Poor's 500-stock index; Inflation indicators inching up; How first-time investors could panic; How investors can shift to defensive stocks; Examples such as Atlanti...
US stocks have been rising all the way this year. Investors seem to have forgotten the taste of a sharp decline. Overnight, the “flash crash” at the end of the session reminded the market. At 3:30 p.m. EST, that is, 30 minutes before the closing of the US stock market, there ...
rates in the early 1980s did that job nicely. Current rates, however, do not come close to offsetting the purchasing-power risk that investors assume. Right now bonds should come with a warning label.
The U.S. Economy Looks Like it Will Dodge a Recession. Why Stocks Could Still Fall. By Teresa Rivas Published: Oct. 16, 2024 at 12:51 p.m. ET 1 Reprints Listen (4 min) Photo: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Although the stock market keeps hitting new highs, Stifel’s chief equity ...
We investigate why individual stocks become more volatile over the 1976-2000 period, during which quarterly accounting data are available at the firm level. On average, corporate earnings have deteriorated and their volatilities have increased over the sample period. This is more evident for newly li...
Even in the U.S.. where the wish for a stable currency isstrong,the dollar has fallen a staggering 86% in valuesince 1965, when I took over management of BerkshireIt takes no less than $7 today to buy what $l did at thattime.Consequently,a tax-free institution would haveneeded 4.3%...
When the Fed is proactively cutting interest rates while the economy is still healthy (positive GDP, low joblessness, etc), rate cuts are ‘good.’ Those cuts breathe life back into a sluggish economy and tend to rejuvenate economic activity over the next several months. Stocks...
While most brokers now offer commission-free trading in stocks and exchange-traded funds, options trading still involves fees or commissions. Usually, there's a fee per trade, plus a commission per contract. What's a Covered Call Strategy?
Investors looking for more Fed intervention can ignore economic data and focus on how much of a drop stocks will take before the central bank comes to the rescue.
Let’s see if we can figure outForbes’agenda. The 2007 policies of mercantilism blew up a big bubble. And according toForbesthis somehow explains the sharp rise and fall of Chinese stock prices. And what about the fact that stocks also rose and fell sharply in countries that did not purs...