Short seller Carson Block of Muddy Waters Capital sparked fears of banking weakness when he spoke... Read More
Short seller Carson Block of Muddy Waters Capital sparked fears of banking weakness when he spoke negatively about Bank of the Ozarks (NASDAQ: OZRK) at the 2016 Sohn Investment Conference last week.... Read More
It’s funny how market opportunities seem to repeat themselves. I remember talking to a coworker in late 2011 about how investors were not giving Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) the credit it deserved for its assets. Shares were trading just under $16 then and the stock was one of… Read More
Part of investing is taking advantage of temporary opportunities while they last. For the past... Read More
Part of investing is taking advantage of temporary opportunities while they last. For the past several years, corporations have been able to issue debt at super-low rates to fund share buybacks,... Read More
When a stock appeals to investors looking for safety and income, it usually won’t get much attention from growth investors. That’s because when a company is focused on returning money to its investors through dividends and buybacks, it usually doesn’t have the growth opportunities to take the share… Read More
With respect to Bernie Sanders supporters, it’s beginning to look like Hillary Clinton will walk away with the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. All five polls tracked by website Real Clear Politics (RCP) give her the advantage. And while the Republican Party has tried to unite against Donald Trump’s… Read More
Boom! I heard an explosive noise in the split second before the lights went out at my local supermarket. A transformer had blown, and it was the second time in a week that I had heard one. The semi-drought conditions brought on by El Nino have limited electricity production here… Read More
Consumers are loving the price of gasoline right now. Thanks to plunging oil prices, the cost to fill up your tank is down 25% over the past year and down by almost half over the past two years. If you’re the average American driving 13,476 miles a year… Read More
There is blood in the streets in the energy sector. Oil- and gas-related stocks have been pummeled for the better part of the past year and a half. Yet, economists and analysts continue to lower their forecasts for energy prices and downgrade stocks in the group. The latest… Read More
There seem to be two kinds of investors right now: those who believe the next bear market is here and ready to destroy trillions of dollars in wealth, and those who proclaim every up day in the market is the end of the pullback. This is largely the… Read More