While everything else falls, consumer-staples stocks are climbing past the wider market this year, reports an article in The Wall Street Journal. Molson Coors, Hershey, and Campbell Soup have all…
Look For Crumbling Castles Along With Moats
Warren Buffett often used the metaphors of castles and moats when talking about investing, pointing to strong companies (the “castle”) that build “unbreachable moats” by generating high profits and maintaining…
Facebook & Netflix Are Value Stocks Now
The FTSE Russell indexes will reshuffle its benchmarks, with Meta, Netflix and PayPal moving into the Russell 1000 Value Index as their weights lighten up in the Russell 1000 Growth…
Ackman to Fed: “Act decisively”
Bill Ackman, the billionaire founder of Pershing Square, repeated his call to the Fed to take aggressive action to combat inflation via Twitter, reports an article in Yahoo! Finance. His…
Stocks Don’t Bottom Out Until Fed Eases Up
In many instances in the past, the stock market didn’t bottom out until the Fed began easing up monetary policies, contends an article in The Wall Street Journal—specifically, 11 out…
The Three Levels of Conviction
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — There are some areas of life where you can never have all the answers – no matter how much you know, how smart you are, or…
The Case for Long-Term Value Investing with Jim Cullen
Value investing has been under fire in the past decade. Although value has performed much better since the COVID market bottom, it went through an extended period prior to that…
Six Things That Might Go Right
By Justin Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — During bear markets, it’s easy to talk about all the things going wrong in the market, economy and the world. And in today’s current market…
Six Experts Help Us Understand Momentum Investing
Momentum is one of the more challenging factors for investors. Although the long-term evidence that supports it is very strong, many investors have a difficult time understanding why something should…
It’s Not So Simple To Abandon Stocks For Bonds
Bonds are finally a competitive alternative to stocks in a diversified portfolio, contends an article in The Wall Street Journal. However, with 10-year bonds down 13% alongside the S&P 500,…