Month: October 2020

We’ve all heard ad nauseam about the health crisis and economic crisis that is COVID-19.
This hurt brick-and-mortar retailers, for-profit schools, travel companies and movie theaters, while simultaneously boosting sales and earnings for e-commerce leaders (like Amazon), remote learning companies (like Chegg), teleconferencing firms (like Zoom) and digital entertainment providers (like Netflix).
Virtually every company has increased its transition to digitalization over the last few months. That reduces costs, raises margins and increases profits.
But there is an enormous opportunity in the pandemic, upside that many investors – thanks to relentless downbeat news coverage – still don’t recognize.
We all know the big negatives…
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Yahoo Finance’s Emily McCormick joins Akiko Fujita to break down Intel’s third-quarter earnings report. …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Venezuelan crude inventories have surged 84% over the last three weeks as the threat of U.S. sanctions ward away buyers of the nation’s most important commodity. That raises the risk that state-run PDVSA will have to start shutting in production again, and is the latest sign that Venezuela’s oil industry is on the verge of collapse.The port of Jose, the main gateway of the country’s oil exports, has been empty for a week as importers of Venezuelan crude including India’s Reliance Industries Ltd, Spain’s Repsol SA and Italy’s Eni SpA skipped oil purchases this month, according to internal …read more […]

Every investor in Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU) should be aware of the most powerful shareholder groups… …read more […]

Volatility trading strategies are, as the name suggests, strategies you can use to profit from volatility trading, which is different from traditional trading.
In conventional investing, when an investor buys a stock, it very much matters which direction the stock price goes. If the price goes up, they will make money, and if it goes down, they will lose money. The opposite is true in short selling. When you short sell a stock, you make money when the price goes down and you lose money when the price goes up.
Volatility trading can be different because when you trade on volatility with …read more […]

U.S. safety regulators have known about U.S. built Tesla suspension issues since at least 2016 but never took action. …read more […]

With less than two weeks to go before the U.S. presidential election, investors may be placing too much confidence in a decisive win by Democratic challenger Joe Biden as his lead in opinion polls narrows. Market participants have in recent weeks pulled back from bets that would benefit from election-related volatility while piling into assets that would benefit from a Biden win, including alternative energy shares and cannabis stocks. As Biden’s lead has narrowed in recent days, some market watchers worry that an unexpected victory by President Donald Trump, a Republican, or an uncertain election outcome could force …read more […]

Some say volatility, rather than debt, is the best way to think about risk as an investor, but Warren Buffett famously… …read more […]

Yahoo Finance’s Anjalee Khemlani reports on the latest news in the approval of Remdesivir. …read more […]

Most readers would already be aware that Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE:RTX) stock increased significantly by 7.7% over… …read more […]

The U.S. set a worrying new record for daily coronavirus cases Thursday, surpassing 77,000 in a single day. …read more […]

‘Shark Tank’ star Kevin O’Leary has learned something valuable about his employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. …read more […]

Robo-advisors are all the rage for some investors. In this Betterment review, we’ll take a close look at how it stacks up against the competition. And while we’re at it, we’ll also compare it to traditional human advisors.

Opening up a Betterment account online is simple. You just need a functioning email address and some basic pieces of information. Once you get in, you do need to provide Betterment with your address, date of birth, tax filing status employment level and income level.
It’s worth noting that to open an account, you also need to provide your social security number. This may …read more […]

Polen Capital Management recently released its Q3 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download here. During the third quarter of 2020, the Polen Global Growth Composite Portfolio returned 9.09% gross of fees, while the MSCI All Country World Index was up 8.14%. You should check out Polen Capital’s top 5 stock picks […] …read more […]

Some have more dollars than sense, they say, so even companies that have no revenue, no profit, and a record of… …read more […]