Fidelity clients saving for retirement are starting to move some money out of stocks in the recently volatile market, the brokerage’s personal investing president told CNBC on Friday. “The average investor that doesn’t trade a lot that’s really looking to save for their retirement — we have millions of customers like that — we’ve seen
Shoppers exit a Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. store in New York, U.S. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines midday on Thursday: Bed Bath & Beyond — Shares of Bed Bath & Beyond soared a whopping 24% after the retailer announced Mark Tritton would become its new president
PepsiCo (NASDAQ:PEP) announced its third-quarter results on Oct. 4. They were healthy enough that I’ve put the beverage and snack food company on my list of seven beverage stocks to buy now. But before I get into the seven names on my list, I thought I’d explain why I’m so high on beverage stocks. The
Wall Street hates giving out Sell ratings. We all know that. Sell-side analysts love to pump up stocks, especially ones attached to their brokerages and investment banking divisions, so they flood the market with a bunch of Buy and Hold ratings. But, just how bad is this pumping? Pretty bad. FactSet data shows that of
Investors were willing to buy in for a second day in a row, encouraged the economy may get some help after all. Though it peeled back from its intraday high and volume was soft, the S&P 500 still ended Thursday’s action up 0.64%. Source: Shutterstock Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) led the charge, gaining nearly 5% after Goldman
The state of Michigan has pulled $600 million of its pension fund from wealth management company Fisher Investments after the company’s founder and CEO Ken Fisher made sexist comments at a summit in San Francisco this week. At the Tiburon conference, Fisher compared his wealth management strategy to picking up women for sex, made explicit
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Walmart – Walmart U.S. stores chief Greg Foran will leave the retailer on Jan. 31 to become chief executive officer of Air New Zealand. He will be replaced by John Furner, who runs Walmart’s Sam’s Club warehouse chain. Slack Technologies – Slack said it had more
In the battle for domination in the graphics niche, the prominent players are Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD), Micron (NASDAQ:MU) and Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA). Investors in AMD stock are betting on a company that’s kept up with the competition through thick and thin, but there’s no room for complacency in the tech war. Source: Sundry Photography / Shutterstock.com
Shopify (NYSE:SHOP) stock has plateaued. SHOP had a massive run-up, as Shopify stock more than tripled in eight months. However, SHOP stock pulled back dramatically in August and has traded in a range since that time. Source: justplay1412 / Shutterstock.com Now many wonder what SHOP stock will do next. Will it retest its all-time high
Stocks continue their strong rally from Thursday, jumping on Friday over optimism for a partial trade deal between the U.S. and China. Let’s look at a few top stock trades going into the weekend. Top Stock Trades for Monday No. 1: Apple (AAPL) How much more clear could we have been with Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) stock
Listen to Preston’s podcast about studying billionaires here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-investors-podcast/id928933489 Phil Knight is the co-founder and the biggest stakeholder of Nike, formerly known as Blue Ribbon Sports, which has more than 1,100 branches across the globe. The company, which is considered the largest creator of athletic shoes and sports apparel, also includes brands like Jordan, Cole
Different Ways to Trade or Invest in the Stock Market ★ SUMMARY ★ in this week’s lesson what I’d like to do is share with you the different ways or the methods that you can actually trade. I’m not going to go into every little concept or detail of how to execute these and how
Kevin Matras goes thru a step by step tutorial on how to use the stock screener on Zacks.com.
Fidelity Investments has joined its rivals by offering zero-commission online trades, but it’s trying to differentiate itself by not selling the right to execute trades to third-party firms, brokerage executive Kathleen Murphy told CNBC on Friday. “We do not take payment-for-order-flow on equity orders,” said Murphy, president of Fidelity’s personal investing business. “Many competitors do
The third-quarter earnings season kicks off in the coming week, and it is likely to expose how much the trade war has cost companies’ bottom lines. First out of the gate are major banks and financial companies, with J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, BlackRock and Goldman Sachs reporting Tuesday. But by the end of the
These days, I have hardly any brick-and-mortar retailers in my portfolio. The big money comes when you invest early, and those days are long gone for the “big box” stores. Sales are moving online, around the world, at an exponential pace. Five years ago, e-commerce was a $1.3 trillion market; by next year, it’ll be
Absent broader context, consumer technology giant Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) appears like a no-lose proposition. Despite some bearish calls that the Apple stock price is stretched – including my own two cents – shares have continued to defy gravity and the critics. On a year-to-date basis, AAPL is up over 50%. Source: Shutterstock Again, by any other
Investors soaked up even more gains on Friday, adding to the rally from Thursday. Investors are hopped up on optimism in the stock market today, as the U.S. and China look to reach a partial trade agreement. According to Bloomberg, the deal has been reached, although there was also meeting between President Donald Trump and
To put it bluntly, uncertainty. Uncertainty in 2 areas: strength of the US (and world) economy, and the US-China trade war. This week the trade war is in focus so let’s look at that. Investors are uncertain about the outcome of the US-China trade war, and they would love to position their portfolios to best
US President Donald Trump shows a letter from Chinese President Xi Jinping as he announces and initial deal with China while meeting the special Envoy and Vice Premier of the People’s Republic of China Liu He Special Envoy and Vice Premier of the People’s Republic of China Liu He at the Oval Office of the