Traditional vice sectors like tobacco and alcohol are investing heavily in the emerging legal cannabis industry, but commercial cannabis companies can’t quite act like they’re selling cigarettes or beer. Maybe they should think more like ice-cream companies. On a trip with his children to visit the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream factory in Vermont, Bradford Sodowick, who
Month: July 2021
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during the daily press briefing on May 7, 2021, in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will meet with the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets next week to discuss the role stablecoins
Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Source: NYSE Stocks enter a busy week for earnings news with two perplexing questions hanging over the market. One is whether the big gains in corporate profits will start to boost stocks with solid earnings reports. That was not the case for some financial sector
Tech stocks have been volatile trades so far in 2021, and we’re liable to see more wild swings in the near future. As the global economy reopens, investors increasingly find themselves in an ambivalent position where they need to choose between cyclical “old economy” stocks and high-growth tech stocks. Many tech names have seen occasional
Invesco Mortgage Capital (NYSE:IVR) is an attractively priced mortgage REIT that has a 10.8% dividend yield well covered by its earnings. Moreover, its price of $3.33 is still below its book value per share. Based on my calculations, the new IVR stock book value is $3.62, down slightly from $3.65 at the end of the
The timing of DiDi Global’s (NYSE:DIDI) initial public offering could not have been any better. Insiders and early investors probably knew about the Chinese regulatory crackdown days after its IPO. They lost the least after DIDI stock plunged. Speculators who bought the stock are in for a rough ride next. Source: Piotr Swat / Shutterstock.com
President Joe Biden has a unique and challenging task—managing the nation’s economic recovery after a global pandemic that caused unemployment to surge to levels not seen since the Great Depression. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicts U.S. economic output will drop 4.3% this year after 2.2% GDP growth last year. The expectation is that when
Before the novel coronavirus pandemic upended our paradigm, financial advisors bemoaned that millennials and Generation Z were falling behind prior generations regarding achieving certain financial milestones. Suddenly, though, the public health crisis incentivized everyone to look to the market for wealth enhancement. Amid this baptism of fire, one trading tactic has been emblematic of this
“ “Hi, I’m Oliver Daemen, and I will be joining Jeff Bezos, Mark Bezos and Wally Funk on the first flight of New Shepard. I am super excited to go into space and joining them on the flight.” ” That was the 18-year-old Dutch student making headlines this week for becoming a last-minute addition to
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., July 13, 2021. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Junk bonds aren’t so junky anymore, with a strong fundamental backdrop helping to underpin what traditionally has been one of the riskiest sections of the financial markets. Yields in the $10.6
In this article VLO AOUT SQ Jack Dorsey, chief executive officer of Square Inc., second right, tours the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015. Yana Paskova | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Square — Shares of
Stock markets are booming thanks to the tailwinds that the Federal Reserve and the White House have provided. The government deployed the heaviest artillery ever to reflate the economy after the pandemic. Judging by how strong stocks are, they may have overshot a bit. There are pockets of weaknesses this week, and consequently, some hot
The economy is roaring back to life and with that the number of stocks to sell is climbing. Abundant government stimulus in combination with an aggressive vaccine rollout has gotten things back on track surprisingly quickly. Investors have hopped on the reopening wave, riding all sorts of struggling companies as they’ve recovered from last year’s
Demographic changes in the United States and elsewhere have major implications for investment risks and returns. The combination of declining birth rates and increasing numbers of retirees could have disastrous consequences for retirement plans and wealth creation. Therefore, any portfolio should be constructed with the older population in mind. In this article, we’ll show you what
ContextLogic (NASDAQ:WISH) stock hit the market via an initial public offering (IPO) in 2020. In January, it delivered nice returns for shareholders when it reached a 52-week high of $32.85 per share. But shares have since declined to their current price of $10. That’s a loss of nearly 70%. Source: sdx15 / Shutterstock.com ContextLogic is
European stocks rose modestly on Friday, as investors kept watch on the fast spreading delta variant of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, and absorbed a fresh batch of earnings. U.S. stock futures were steady ahead of retail sales data. The Stoxx Europe 600 index SXXP, +0.19% rose 0.2% to 452.21, with similar gains for the
A Falcon 9 rocket booster lands after launching the company’s Transporter-2 rideshare mission on June 30, 2021. SpaceX Private investment in space companies hit $4.5 billion in the second quarter, a record for the sector, according to a report on Wednesday by New York-based firm Space Capital. “This was the largest quarter on record for
IBM (NYSE:IBM) will report its second-quarter earnings on July 19. Expect the stock to rise if it produces earnings like those from Q1. I wrote about this last month and estimated that IBM stock was worth 25% more, or $183 per share. Source: shutterstock.com/LCV As of July 14, IBM stock was $139.82 per share, so
PepsiCo (NASDAQ:PEP) shares got fizzy this week as earnings crushed estimates, which is good news for anyone investing in PEP stock. Source: suriyachan / Shutterstock.com Pepsi earned $2.37 billion, $1.70 per share, on revenue of $19.2 billion for the three months ending in June. Earnings were 19 cents per share ahead of estimates, and revenue
I first invested in Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) stock back in late 2015 at a price of $68 per share. Source: Nopparat Khokthong / Shutterstock.com At the time, my thesis was extremely simple. E-commerce is the future of retail. Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is the e-commerce leader in the U.S. market. AMZN stock has been an incredible long-term investment.
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