Holiday shoppers at a Target store in Culver City, California. Mark Ralston | AFP | Getty Images Despite retailers banking on acceleration in the fourth-quarter from holiday sales, Wells Fargo said fundamental trends have deteriorated. “While the majority of companies appear optimistic on their ability to drive solid growth in [the fourth quarter of 2019],
It wasn’t a great session for the stock market today. But after rallying most of this week, it’s hard for bulls to complain too much heading into the long holiday weekend. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:SPY), SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSEARCA:DIA) and PowerShares QQQ ETF (NASDAQ:QQQ) each tacked on over 2.5% on the
For some investors, mid-cap stocks are a perfect hunting ground for stocks to buy. Small-cap stocks offer more volatility — and generally have underperformed in this bull market. Large-cap stocks often have so much coverage that finding a real buying opportunity is difficult. So mid-cap stocks — defined here as those with a market capitalization
Stock market investors may be glad to see August go, but September might not be any better, unless there are some positive developments in the trade war. Markets enter September, anticipating a Federal Reserve rate cut mid-month and worrying the chilling in the global economy will reach the U.S. There appears to be no progress
Whether it’s through stocks, bonds, ETFs, or other types of securities, all investors love seeing their portfolios score big returns. But for income investors, generating consistent cash flow from each of their liquid investments is their primary focus. Source: Shutterstock While cash flow can come from bond interest or interest from other types of investments,
Without a doubt, youth-centric social media firm Snap (NYSE:SNAP) is one of the surprise comeback stories of 2019. It was a completely different story last year. Excepting a brief pop in February of 2018, SNAP stock incurred a horrific collapse in the markets. Now, it’s made up those losses from last year January, and then
Apparently gold traders hadn’t seen the steady rise in the USD since Monday, but that’s OK, humans are exuberant critters especially when they’re trading. Here’s the chart for the US Dollar index UUP showing the Dollar’s week. (credit Fidelity.com) US-China trade war news was mixed. There was a burst of news that new talks were starting,
Download Preston’s 1 page checklist for finding great stock picks: http://buffettsbooks.com/checklist Preston Pysh is the #1 selling Amazon author of two books on Warren Buffett. The books can be found at the following location: In lesson four, we learned that a share of a business is one unit of the overall business. For example, if
In today’s episode of let’s talk stocks, we will go into some technical analysis basics, and we’ll take a look at the cup and handle pattern. This can be both a reversal and a continuation pattern. We’ll talk about what the pattern looks like, it’s previous trend, volume, as well as some projections, entry points
Steve Reitmeister shares details from a recent Zacks Rank performance study to help investors set realistic expectations.
Investors should be wary when it comes to trusting China over President Donald Trump, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday. “I’m aghast we trust the People’s Republic of China more than we trust the White House,” Cramer said on “Squawk Box.” “The predominance of coverage this morning is that the President is lying. I’m not willing
Earlier this week, stocks rallied on encouraging comments from President Donald Trump about trade talks with China. Of course, the rally was nice, but it was accompanied by doubts, confirmed by some Chinese media, that the president hadn’t actually talked to anyone in China about cooling off the long-running tensions. Source: rafapress / Shutterstock.com Fortunately,
Let me be clear: I try to limit emotions when it comes to investing. I’m a research fanatic, and I always go first to the big picture trends, data, and face-to-face conversations. Source: Shutterstock But I’ve also learned not to ignore my gut feelings, especially when they have data to back them up. That wasn’t
Pedestrians pass in front of an Ulta Beauty store in New York. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Shares of Ulta nosedived 21% after the company lowered its guidance and missed earnings estimates. The beauty company lowered its revenue growth guidance to 9%-12%, compared to
If it seems like Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) stock investors can’t catch a break, it’s true. But it’s not just bad luck. We all know super smart people who, no matter how great they were in school, can’t help making poor decisions. Unfortunately for TSLA stock investors, it’s looking more and more like their CEO, Elon
It’s only been 3 months since gold broke up through 1200, and just this week gold popped up through 1500. And now here we are pushing up toward 1600 just 2 days later. Your friendly Gold Enthusiast feels like he’s given you all the reasons gold should go up. In case you weren’t following closely, they
A video sign displays the logo for Roku Inc, a Fox-backed video streaming firm, in Times Square after the company’s IPO at the Nasdaq Market in New York, U.S., September 28, 2017. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Roku’s streaming business is growing faster than Netflix was at a similar stage in the company’s life, according to
It was a good day for bulls in the stock market today. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:SPY) rallied 1.28%, the SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSEARCA:DIA) jumped 1.3% and the PowerShares QQQ ETF (NASDAQ:QQQ) climbed 1.5%. Betting on hope is rarely a sound strategy, but with futures jumping in the morning, that was the
The market continues to treat almost any stock with significant China exposure badly. As I explained in a recent article about Micron (NASDAQ:MU), you simply can’t invest in most of these stocks until the trade war concludes. This makes AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) stock all the more interesting. As one of the tiny number of semiconductor stocks still faring
Here’s the good news on earnings: Despite much hand-wringing around tariffs and the global economic outlook, overall earnings for the S&P 500 in 2019 remain “flattish,” meaning they are likely to be little changed from 2018’s record pace. The bad news: Investors remain on edge because confidence in the estimates are not high. “The wild