Stock Markets Analysis & Opinion

This article previously appeared at The HumbleDollarTHE S&P 500 IS DOWN 10% so far this year—but the pain hasn’t been dished out evenly. Value and steady dividend-paying stocks are...

Early in December 2021, I suggested Wayfair (NYSE:W) as a short. It was above $220, and I described it as “at the cusp of breaking below a fantastically well-formed topping pattern.” After...

I have barely had any time to go through the absolute smorgasbord of wonderfulness from Friday’s plunge, but I at least made my way through the ETF charts, and my jaw is hanging open.For one...

Value funds invest in securities that are deemed to be undervalued on the basis of fundamental characteristics. There could be many types of value funds, including small-value funds.Such funds focus...

A relatively torrid Thursday and Friday saw markets push towards the lows of February/March after failed attempts to shape a higher low.  Should we undercut these lows then we will have to...

Starting where yesterday's Part I left off on this coming week’s technology sector earnings, let’s finish up with two tech giants, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and...

With some of the largest, most followed US companies reporting their quarterly earnings in the upcoming week, investors will look for signs of strength amid the widespread equity selloff. On Friday,...

After both the Russell 2000 (IWM) and the NASDAQ 100 (QQQ) failed to hold or clear over the 50-Day moving average (blue line), the bleeding has not stopped.Now that IWM and many key ETFs are near the...

The bond market is blowing up many retirement portfolios. Let’s make sure yours is outrunning inflation, rates, and everything else—with these yields up to 25%.(That’s not a typo....

The week ending Apr. 22 was brutal. The S&P 500 fell by nearly 2.75%, but it was much worse than that. Because the index rallied hard to start the week, which typically happens following a monthly...

This graph is from the first page of Refinitiv’s “This Week in Earnings” and it gives a different look at “earnings” (actually it’s net income) for the S&P...

It was looking like it would be a volatile end to the week for shares of Snap (NYSE:SNAP), the social media giant. They reported their Q1 earnings after Thursday's bell and the numbers were well off...

These 3 Reliable Stocks Are Ideal For Retirement PortfoliosResilience is a difficult quality to find in the stock market, which is why investors tend to pay a premium for established companies that...

Dexcom (NASDAQ:DXCM) is a glucose monitoring systems manufacturer whose sales have seen rapid growth in recent years.The company’s products offer a convenient symbiosis between technology and...