Many investors opt out of the safety of a money-market fund or Treasury bill and choose to take greater risks in their investing for two basic reasons: they want to…
Don’t Ask An Economist Where the GDP Is Headed
Wall Streeters give a lot of credence to economic forecasts at the start of every year, as corporations project demand and craft their budgets and money managers plan out their…
Biden’s 4% Buyback Tax Could Boost Stocks
While the 1% excise tax that went into effect on January 1st is raising concerns on Wall Street, the tax won’t affect the overall stock market that much and could…
Fed Chatter Doesn’t Matter, Says Fisher
The Fed are “consensus thinkers” rather than forward-thinking or inventive, contends Ken Fisher in a video posted to Fisher Investments YouTube channel. The Fed is “more political than they want…
New SEC Regulations Take On Insider Trading
New SEC regulations that go into affect on April 1st seek to close many of the loopholes that corporate insiders have slipped through over the last two decades, according to…
Investors Spooked By Buffett’s Quick TSMC Sale
Mere months after Berkshire Hathaway bought a $5 billion stake in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the Warren Buffett-helmed conglomerate slashed its holdings in the tech company by 86%, reports an…
2023 Rally Sees Investors Dumping U.S. Funds
While U.S. stocks have rallied so far this year, investors are exiting the funds that track them, reports an article in The Wall Street Journal. $31 billion has been drained…
A Deep Dive Into Earnings Quality with Columbia Professor Doron Nissim
Many investors take for granted that the earnings and other financial data that companies report provides an accurate representation of their business and its future. But the reality is that…
Unlocking the Market's Mood: Tools for Measuring Stock Sentiment
By Justin Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — In our recent podcast with Ray Micaletti, we talked about his relative sentiment approach to investing. Ray uses retail and institutional investor sentiment to build…
The Most Important Investing Lesson: Cem Karsan
Cem Karsan shares the one lesson he would teach the average investor. See full interview with Cem Karsan