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
After a strong open on Monday, equities reversed lower as investors begin to fear another wave of shutdowns due to the novel coronavirus. With that in mind, let’s look at a few top stock trades for Tuesday. Top Stock Trades for Tomorrow No. 1: Tesla (TSLA) Did Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) just put in a temporary top?
Work from home stocks are on fire right now. But one work from home name which has been left behind in this broad rally is secure storage provider Dropbox (NASDAQ:DBX), with Dropbox stock up just 25% year-to-date. Source: Allmy / Shutterstock.com That’s better than wider markets, but compare it to 50%+ gains for the likes
A view of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is seen at Wall Street on June 29, 2020 in New York City. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images Warner Music Group Corp., the label for artists like Ed Sheeran and Cardi B, went public last month with 28 underwriters. More than a third of
People pass a sign for JPMorgan Chase at it’s headquarters in Manhattan, New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Earnings season, which officially starts Tuesday with JPMorgan and Wells Fargo, is going to be wild — and unpredictable. Here’s why: About 40% of companies are not providing any guidance at all. As a result,
OPEC+ production cuts have brought oil prices back from the brink, but the group will have to tread carefully to avoid triggering a new price collapse when it begins to reverse those reductions. The Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee, which reviews OPEC+ production, meets on Wednesday, and will consider whether the the group should keep 9.6
Give Occidental Petroleum (NYSE:OXY) its due. OXY stock jumped almost 58% in the second quarter as even some of the most battered fossil fuels producers rebounded from their March lows. Source: Pavel Kapysh / Shutterstock.com That rally is in the rearview mirror, and the surge is not an invitation to chase Occidental. As is the
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
In today’s episode of let’s talk stocks, we’re going to cover some technical analysis basics. We’ll talk about the double bottom stock chart pattern, which is a reversal pattern. We’re going to take a look at what the pattern looks like and how to recognize it, it’s previous trend, as well as the volume, projection
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
One of my favorite growth stocks over the past several years has been Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE) stock. Source: r.classen / Shutterstock.com Indeed, I like Adobe so much that back in early 2019, I included the stock as one of my five favorite stocks to buy for the long-term when I coined the acronym STARS – which
A view of the charging Bull with a woman in New York City USA during coronavirus pandemic on April 25, 2020. John Nacion | NurPhoto | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Intersect ENT (XENT), Medtronic (MDT) — Shares of Intersect ENT popped 35% after Bloomberg News reported Medtronic has made an
The good news for Carnival (NYSE:CCL) is that the company’s stock is 80% higher since bottoming out at just under $8 in March. However, the bad news for CCL stock is that it’s still down over 70% since the first of the year. Source: Ruth Peterkin / Shutterstock.com For most of the last three months,
Thursday was a wild day on Wall Street, with some stocks flying and others dying. And with so much variation between sector performance, it’s increasingly becoming a market of haves and have-nots. So, whether you’re happy with your portfolio this week very much depends on where you have exposure. Therefore, let’s take a look at
Costco store in Teterboro, New Jersey. SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images How to pinpoint top stocks primed to outperform during this uncertain time? Here are a few of the names the best-performing Wall Street analysts are betting on right now. As we move into the second half of the year, it could make
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
As of June 29, Beijing-based coffee retailer Luckin Coffee (OTCMKTS:LKNCY) got delisted from the NASDAQ Exchange. Now, Luckin stock is a penny stock that may also be a bankruptcy-candidate. Source: Keitma / Shutterstock.com There has recently been increased day trading interest in shares of potentially bankrupt companies, such as Hertz Global (NYSE:HTZ), JCPenney (OTCMKTS:JCPNQ), and Whiting Petroleum (NYSE:WLL).
As one of the world’s biggest providers of computers, network servers, and related products and services, Dell Technologies Inc. competes with a range of giant technology companies, including HP Inc., Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Group, Lenovo Group Ltd., IBM Corp., and Apple Inc. After putting up billions of dollars of his own money to take the company
If you’ve restricted yourself to domestic stocks, then you could be missing out on the virtually unstoppable growth of a massive and successful Chinese company. I’m referring to Alibaba (NYSE:BABA), the e-commerce giant, as the momentum in Alibaba stock isn’t likely to slow down. Source: testing / Shutterstock.com Of course, a black-swan event such as
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell Thursday: Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) — The pharmacy operator fell more than 3% in the premarket on weaker-than-expected results for its fiscal third quarter. Walgreens reported earnings per share of 83 cents, well below a FactSet estimate of $1.19 per share. The company’s fiscal-year earnings guidance