The concept of social responsibility holds that businesses should be good citizens, balancing their money-making operations with activities that benefit society, be it on a local, national, or global scale. Social responsibility in marketing involves focusing efforts on attracting consumers who want to make a positive difference with their purchases. Many companies have adopted socially
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Real estate investment trusts (REITs) have blossomed over the past decade or two. While many started simply as collections of commercial or residential properties where the REIT was essentially the landlord, many have developed into far more unique arrangements. But that doesn’t make finding the best REITs easy. For investors, REITs are interesting because they
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The novel coronavirus-driven economic slowdown triggered a sharp meltdown for equities earlier this year. However, with the Federal Reserve pursuing aggressive expansionary monetary policies, equities bounced back strongly. Some bounced back so strongly that they are now severely overvalued stocks. The sharp rally in equities is not just liquidity-driven. There are fundamental factors that have
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Some 180 companies in the S&P 500 index have pulled their earnings guidance because of novel coronavirus uncertainties limiting the visibility of investors and analysts, the Wall Street Journal reported over the weekend. Source: Shutterstock Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS), Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) and JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) unofficially kick off earnings season this week. Corporate earnings among companies
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Money management is one of the most important (and least understood) aspects of trading. Many traders, for instance, enter a trade without any kind of exit strategy and are often more likely to take premature profits or, worse, run losses. Traders should understand what exits are available to them and attempt to create an exit strategy that
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Business spending showed some signs of green shoots in June, as manufacturers bought more equipment and spending shifted away from stay-at-home sectors to ones that could rebound in a reopening economy,  according to Cortera, a software company which analyzes business-to-business credit transactions. But overall June spending was still depressed, down 10.9% from the same month
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