Stock Markets Analysis & Opinion

In my 20+ years of trading and managing complex portfolios, much of which were built using derivatives, these extreme market moves do provide two silver linings. #1 is the ability to pick up quality...

Recently, major investment bank The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE:GS) raised its oil price projection for 2018, giving a rosy picture for the commodity. The investment bank expects the global...

Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ:BIDU) is set to report fourth-quarter 2017 results on Feb 13.Notably, the company has beaten the Zacks Consensus Estimate in each of the trailing four quarters, delivering an...

Undoubtedly, the overall outlook for the U.S. housing industry remains positive, with a healthy economy and strong job market helping the demand side of the equation. However, the limited supply of...

Per an article by Bloomberg, The Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE:GS) is in talks to acquire a New York-based startup, Clarity Money. The bank plans to fuse the personal finance services that the startup...

These are no long/short, no multi-asset, no-alternative investing strategies. Instead these are simple consumer-oriented ETFs that held their head high in Thursday’s market bloodbath. The...

Concerns over trillion-dollar budget deficits, rising rates and inflationary pressures officially pushed the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones in the correction zone. These led the 30-year Treasury yield...

The U.S. equity market has been on a roller-coaster of late. In fact, Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 1,033 points or 4.2% on Feb 8. Other major bourses – the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq...

What REALLY happens when an insider buys stock?I'm talking about insider "trading". This is the legal kind, when insiders buy and sell company shares. There are a lot of different reasons that may...

Insperity Inc. (NYSE:NSP) , the Human Capital Management (HCM) platform provider, is set to release fourth-quarter 2017 results on Feb 12.Notably, the company beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate in...

NCR Corporation (NYSE:NCR) reported better-than-expected results for fourth-quarter 2017. The company’s non-GAAP earnings from continuing operations of 92 cents per share surpassed the Zacks...

The earnings season is off to a flying start with equity markets scaling record highs, owing to a slew of upbeat economic data, strong corporate performance and President Donald Trump's tax reform...

The need to remain connected is essentially human. An era of digitization and technology is built on this need. It is here that telecommunications come to the fore as a necessary utility. The rising...

Stock market correction seems to be in the offing as over the last five trading days extreme volatility was witnessed. The banking stocks are not untouched by this.It all started last Friday when...