It’s nearly impossible to click through to Bloomberg or another financial news site without... Read More

It’s nearly impossible to click through to Bloomberg or another financial news site without being inundated with analysis predicting the next rate hike by the Federal Reserve.  Everything... Read More

As the broader market bull looks ready to be put out to pasture, one beaten-down group may be about... Read More

As the broader market bull looks ready to be put out to pasture, one beaten-down group may be about to turn higher.  Since we’re looking at the early stages of a potential multiyear... Read More

Third quarter earnings have begun to come in, and an end to the five-quarter earnings recession for... Read More

Third quarter earnings have begun to come in, and an end to the five-quarter earnings recession for companies in the S&P 500 isn’t likely. Investors have continued to bid up stocks on the... Read More

Geopolitical issues have dominated the markets this year, and polls have been useless in lending... Read More

Geopolitical issues have dominated the markets this year, and polls have been useless in lending any kind of certainty to asset prices. OPEC has successfully managed expectations for a production... Read More

Stephen King’s The Lawnmower Man was adapted for the big screen in 1992, the story of a... Read More

Stephen King’s The Lawnmower Man was adapted for the big screen in 1992, the story of a disabled landscaper hooked up to a virtual reality landscape and experimental drugs. The VR experiment... Read More

Headline risks can strike at any time and can hit even the best investments. Most companies have... Read More

Headline risks can strike at any time and can hit even the best investments. Most companies have felt the pain of a news story that sent shares plunging, and when the issue results in little more... Read More

You can’t be a little pregnant, and you can’t have a little inflation. It’s the... Read More

You can’t be a little pregnant, and you can’t have a little inflation. It’s the old axiom about rising prices that the market seems to have forgotten over the last several years.... Read More

Amazon (NYSE: AMZN) booked more than $107 billion in 2015 sales on over 300 million active customer... Read More

Amazon (NYSE: AMZN) booked more than $107 billion in 2015 sales on over 300 million active customer accounts. The ecommerce giant is booking 20% annual sales growth as traditional retailers struggle... Read More

Baron Rothschild’s 18th century rule that, “The time to buy is when there’s blood... Read More

Baron Rothschild’s 18th century rule that, “The time to buy is when there’s blood in the streets,” is just as applicable today as it was 300 years ago. But today, we’re... Read More

The internet turned 47 years old this year. That’s if you count from the first... Read More

The internet turned 47 years old this year. That’s if you count from the first computer-to-computer linkup on ARPANET in 1969. Even counting from the creation of the world wide web in 1989, the... Read More