Speculators buy tomorrow and sell today. Investors can get bargains if they believe in yesterday. Home Depot (NYSE:HD) provides a good example of this market principle. HD stock ran up from a pandemic low of $152 last March to a high of $286 in August. They then bounced around for months before falling 11% in
Virgin Galactic leaders in front of the New York Stock Exchange, from left: CEO George Whitesides, founder Richard Branson and Chairman Chamath Palihapitiya. Virgin Galactic Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya, the chairman of Virgin Galactic who took the company public through a SPAC deal in 2019, sold his remaining personal stake earlier this week, a securities
A Model X is on display at a Tesla showroom on February 13, 2021 in Beijing, China. VCG | Visual China Group | Getty Images What’s behind the drop in tech stocks? A model Wall Street uses to value stocks is flashing caution. Tech stocks are in a correction. The Nasdaq 100, the largest 100
A logo of a Virgin Galactic is seen outside the building during the company’s first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on October 28, 2019 in New York City. JOHANNES EISELE | AFP | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Virgin Galactic – The space company’s shares
More than 24 million households in the U.S. have Roth individual retirement accounts, which accounted for $810 billion in retirement assets as of 2019, according to the Investment Company Institute. The retirement savings vehicles are funded with after-tax dollars, which means distributions are tax-free. Key Takeaways Roth IRAs are retirement savings vehicles that are
We highlight four ETFs that are benefitting from the surge in demand for chips.
The long bull market run on Wall Street shows no signs of slowing down. Even the novel coronavirus pandemic could not stop the markets from registering record gains. However, amidst all this, there are several stocks to avoid that are overpriced. It may seem surprising, considering the positive momentum we see nowadays. Several stocks have
Perhaps one of the more perplexing yet simultaneously intriguing wagers in the market, there’s no shortage of opinion on Carlotz (NASDAQ:LOTZ), the user-car dealership that’s threatening to disrupt the way Americans purchase secondhand vehicles. On one hand, a compelling bullish case exists based largely on the pandemic. However, economic concerns also weigh heavily on LOTZ
In 2019, Canopy Growth (NASDAQ:CGC) stock hit a high of $52, but that was the end of the good news. The Canadian market would quickly go south as would CGC stock, which lost more than 70% of its value. Source: Shutterstock The bearish move hit most of the cannabis industry, such as with stocks like
Morgan Stanley is now the biggest General Electric bull on Wall Street after analyst Josh Pokrzywinski raised his target on the stock to $17 on Thursday, up from his prior forecast of $13. Shares of GE briefly topped $14 per share after the markets opened Thursday, setting a new 52-week high before paring gains and
A shopper wearing a protective mask checks out at a Costco store in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell on Thursday: Costco – Costco shares fell 1.3% after the company posted mixed fiscal second-quarter results. Costco
Between October 2007 and November 2008 the Dow Jones lost more than 40%, and investors posted losses of more than $50 trillion globally. In a December 2008 report, AARP said, “The economic downturn underway is likely to be the worst since World War II. Its impact on older Americans could be devastating.” A March 2010
A friend recently asked me the dumbest stock I’ve written about in the past 12-24 months. I answered that I’d have to think about it. However, if we’re talking about recent months, Naked Brand Group (NASDAQ:NAKD) and NAKD stock would be at the top of the list. Source: Shutterstock In November, I wondered why it
Like the frustrated knights of Arthurian legend who tried to withdraw Excalibur from the magical stone that gripped it, many investors have struggled in vain to withdraw profit from a short sale of Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) stock. Source: Shutterstock None has succeeded, except perhaps for a few fleeting moments. Tesla has been defying all skeptics, naysayers, and
I have written several articles about a SPAC (special purpose acquisition company) called Foley Transimene Acquisition Corp II (NYSE:BFT). BFT SPAC is going to merge with a payments company called Paysafe and the stock will be renamed PSFE after the merger closes. I still believe the BFT stock (PSFE stock) is at least 62% too cheap.
This pandemic has presented the global economy with an unprecedented challenge. The level of globalization, ease of travel from one country to another and the ensuing shutdowns contributed to the sharpest economic decline the developed world has ever seen. These conditions also made for unprecedented volatility in the stock market, sending even high-quality dividend stocks
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule stand upright on the launchpad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center ahead of the Demo-2 launch. Elon Musk’s SpaceX denounced a subpoena from the Department of Justice for its corporate hiring records, saying in a court filing that the investigation by the federal agency’s Immigrant and Employee
The logos of Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and TikTok displayed on a computer screen. Denis Charlet | AFP via Getty Images Is it time for an ETF that measures hype? Measuring the buzz around stocks mentioned in social media is all the rage. Now there’s an exchange-traded fund for that. The Van Eck Vectors
A worker wearing a protective mask boxes a pizza inside a Costco store in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Hiring likely improved in February as more of the economy reopened, but winter weather could have hampered some activity. Economists expect to see 210,000 payrolls
Contrarian investors seeking to capitalize on stock market declines can profit during a bear market using an inverse exchange-traded fund (ETF). A bear market is typically defined as a situation where securities prices fall 20% or more from recent highs amid widespread investor pessimism. The spread of COVID-19 and its effect on investor sentiment triggered a