Year: 2020

There’s a powerful recession indicator that’s flashing red. The yield curve inversion is catching headlines but it’s largely misunderstood. So today, let’s look at why it’s a sign of an economic downturn. And with the stock market near all-time highs, the next crash will provide great value investing opportunities.
Warren Buffett is preparing and it pays big dividends to follow his moves. With Buffett’s passive approach, you can use some of his same techniques. But before we dive into that, let’s look at the yield curve indicator…
Recession Indicator Yield Curve Inversion
For over 50 years, the yield curve inversion has predicted every …read more […]

One afternoon in my 20s changed my outlook on investing, volatility and the markets.
It altered the course of my life, even though I didn’t know it at the time.
We were going through a difficult, tumultuous stretch.
Everything was falling.
I turned to my markets editor, nearly in a panic, and asked, “Should we tell our people to sell? Should we get out?”
He calmly stood up, walked over to my desk and said, “Pull up a historic chart of the S&P 500.”

“Find me the Great Depression…
“Show me Black Monday…
“Show me Black Tuesday. Point out any of the darkest days in the market’s …read more […]

On Monday, global markets fell $1.73 trillion dollars. On Tuesday, markets opened higher, but fears of Coronavirus remained. Ivan Feinseth of Tigress Financial joins Yahoo Finance’s On The Move to discuss that and Mastercard, which announced that it will name a new CEO effective January 1st, 2021. …read more […]

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(Bloomberg) — Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. options investors are anticipating a 23% move in the stock after the company’s fourth-quarter earnings report, with a tilt toward contracts betting on gains that would propel shares past last week’s record high.The stock has already more than tripled in 2020, trading around $35 on Tuesday afternoon, as institutional and retail investors alike pile in on the prospects of Richard Branson’s space transport company becoming profitable as an early entrant to a nascent industry. That enthusiasm is also evident in the options market, where daily volume has increased about 150% in the past four …read more […]

Yahoo Finance’s Adam Shapiro talks Tuesday’s top trending stories. …read more […]

The Centers for Disease Control has issued new warnings after reviewing the coronavirus, which is now expected to impact the U.S. much more than previously anticipated. The On The Move panel breaks down the news. …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — The 2018 fatal crash of a Tesla Inc. SUV, in which an Apple Inc. employee was playing a game on his company-issued phone and the car veered into a divider, highlight the “misuses of technology,” a U.S. investigator said Tuesday.Not only did the driver allow the semi-autonomous driving system in the Tesla vehicle to essentially drive itself, but Apple didn’t instruct its employees not to use its devices while behind the wheel, said National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt.“The crash driver’s employer, Apple, is a tech leader, but like most employers, has yet to develop a distracted …read more […]