Month: September 2020

A survey shows mortgage rates are staying near record lows and giving homebuyers a boost. …read more […]

The week began for Tesla (TSLA) as most weeks have in 2020, by adding more muscle to the share price. The newly 5-1 split stock caught investors’ imagination who pounced on the “cheaper” shares and kept up the monumental rally in the week’s first session. Since Monday, however, the high flying stock has spent a rare couple of days in the red, nearing an 18% correction.With a new triple digit share price sitting alongside the TSLA ticker, RBC analyst Joseph Spak shared his thoughts on what is undoubtedly one of the stock market’s most controversial names.The analyst believes there are …read more […]

The bottom of the financial crisis was a terrifying moment. More than a decade later, if I close my eyes, I can still feel it.
The panic hit on September 15, 2008, when Lehman Brothers failed. The global financial system froze.
This lasted for months. By the first week of March 2009, the mainstream consensus was that another Great Depression was at hand.
Nobody was buying stocks.
With the benefit of hindsight, we now know that the first week in March 2009 was the greatest stock-buying opportunity in a generation.
But what should we have been buying?
Should we have been focusing on stocks with the …read more […]

The post Should Investors Focus on Growth or Value? appeared first on Investment U. …read more […]

Stock futures extended losses on Thursday after a sell-off earlier in the day led the S&P 500 to its worst single-session drop in nearly three months. …read more […]

Brent Schutte, Chief Investment Strategist at Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management, joined The Final Round to discuss today’s market sell-off and why he thinks the economic recovery with slowly start to reach other sectors of the market. …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Thursday’s Nasdaq nosedive dispensed painful lessons in how options-market leverage can blow up in an investor’s face.Losses in benchmark indexes were brutal enough, getting to 6% in the Nasdaq 100, or about $730 billion erased. In single-stock equity contracts they were downright existential, with some instruments wiped out in the space of a few hours. Volumes in puts and especially calls has been exploding in recent weeks, much of it in the tiny lot sizes denoting individual traders.While it’s never hard to pick out staggering losses in options when markets tumble, and plenty of examples exist of well-timed …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Stocks sellers didn’t show much discretion Thursday as the major indexes tumbled. But the outsize chipmaker rout may have had its origin in a move by China.The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell 5.7% Thursday, its worst session since mid-June, following news that China is planning a sweeping set of new government policies to develop its domestic semiconductor industry and counter recent Trump administration restrictions. The decline shaved off about $100 billion in value for the gauge.Major chipmakers posted one of their worst days in months. Shares of Nvidia Corp. tumbled 9.3%, the most since March 16. Broadcom Inc. fell …read more […]

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have proven benefits for investors. And if you’re looking for big dividends, you’re in the right place. I’ve sorted through hundreds of funds and found the top high dividend ETFs for 2020.
Each fund below holds a basket of dividend stocks from different industries. This diversification helps them keep a steady stream of income flowing. And the funds also come from well-established providers. They’ve led the way with fund innovation and have brought down investing costs and fees.
Also, below this list of ETFs, you’ll find some additional resources. For example, here’s our free investment calculator. It shows you …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — DocuSign Inc. projected revenue that topped analysts’ estimates, in a sign of robust demand for the application that lets businesses sign documents remotely during the coronavirus pandemic.Sales in the period that ends in October will be as much as $362 million, the San Francisco-based company said Thursday in a statement. Analysts, on average, projected $336 million, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The company raised its annual revenue to as much as $1.39 billion from an earlier expectation of $1.32 billion. Analysts were looking for $1.32 billion.DocuSign Chief Executive Officer Dan Springer has tried to integrate the e-signature …read more […]

Yahoo Finance’s Kristin Myers and Dan Howley discuss pressure on tech stocks following Apple’s touching a $2T market value. …read more […]

The appeal hearing for Amarin’s (AMRN) high triglyceride treatment Vascepa kicked off on Wednesday and ended on a negative note. The appeals court affirmed the district court’s ruling invalidating Vascepa’s patents in the US. Accordingly, shares took a merciless 37% plunge over the past two trading days.As a reminder, in March, Amarin lost a patent court case against generic drug makers, Hikma Pharmaceuticals and Dr. Reddy’s, which are seeking to sell their own versions of Vascepa.At the hearing’s conclusion, Stifel analyst Derek Archila bluntly stated, “We would not be buying shares here.”The analyst further said, “Given Vascepa’s complexity, we think …read more […]

Market’s got hit hard on Thursday as Apple led a tech selloff as investors cashed in on the months-long market rally. Portfolio Wealth Advisors President & CIO Lee Munson joins The Final Round panel to discuss what investors should look at.
…read more […]

The markets closed in the red as the market saw its largest sell off since June with the big technology names seeing a sharp drop. The Final Round panel discusses the latest. …read more […]

In this article we are going to estimate the intrinsic value of The Southern Company (NYSE:SO) by taking the forecast… …read more […]