Stock Markets Analysis & Opinion

JCPenney announced a $62 million dollar loss for the quarter. With the announcement, its share price plunged 16% breaking the $4 barrier for the first time. Stocks under $5 are considered...

Cruise Anywhere, which launched Tuesday, works just like Uber or Lyft: Open the app, type in your location and destination, and wait for your car. It’s available to 10 percent of Cruise’s...

For a very clear example of why dividends matter, consider the case of Prospect Capital (NASDAQ:PSEC). I first purchased Prospect in late 2014, believing it to be cheap at the time and that the risk...

Over the past week, most of my core market health indicators fell. Most notably, my measures of market strength went negative. This changes the core portfolio allocations (below). Another thing that...

Well, when B of A and Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) did the stories of the historical low VIX and its risks, most investors were already worried. Then, when Interactive Brokers raised margin on short...

Morning NotesUS Futures are drifting lower this morning while European stocks trade lower by nearly -1%. Heightened volatility and tensions with North Korea continue to weigh on markets. President...

Amyris Inc (NASDAQ:AMRS)Amyris, Inc. (AMRS), a global industrial bioscience company yesterday reported their second quarter 2017 financial results. Amyris reported second quarter net income of...

Snap Inc. (NYSE: NYSE:SNAP)Shares of Snap took a horrific beating in the after market on Thursday August 10th, 2017 when the company reported their earnings for their fiscal second quarter. The...

As North Korean President Kim Jung Un and U.S. President Donald Trump shot barbs and threats at each other – threats which included Trump’s promises of fire and fury and perhaps more...

Investing in energy stocks has been a roller-coaster ride over the last three years. The steep drop and slower recovery in crude oil prices has fueled the majority of the volatility. The price-to-book...

NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP) is a $12 billion company today. Investors that bought shares one year ago are sitting on a 50.65% total return. That's above the S&P 500's return of 14.02%.NetApp stock is...

In business schools, the buy-and-hold strategy is still viewed by the majority as the most viable investing strategy for the financial markets.It is hard to change old beliefs. I often wonder if those...

There is actually a ton of good data to write about this week, but the content will be doled out in a few separate posts.With Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) earnings report due this coming week, Q2 ’17...

On Friday, the NYMO (McClellan Oscillator for the NYSE; a market breadth indicator) closed below its lower Bollinger Band (BB) for the 4th consecutive day (see my tweet and prior tweet here). The last...