Wall Street has many messages for people who are or who may become its customers: “We help people, businesses and institutions build, preserve and manage wealth so they can pursue their financial goals.” “Our processes are finely tuned, deliberate, time-tested and risk-aware, all in the mission to achieve sustainable, above-market results.” “Investment professionals design and manage a portfolio aligned to…
It’s very easy to construct negative sentiment around the tech sector. As investors are well aware, increasing quantitative tightening has spelled a massive downturn for the equity class. Easy money is gone, drying up investor capital for highly valued tech stocks. The fact is that the harder liquidity is to come by, the less likely that capital is to flow…
Focusing attention on electric vehicle (EV) stocks like Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) and Rivian Automotive Inc (NASDAQ:RIVN) isn’t unwarranted; they’re the biggest EV companies. But they’re also followed by everyone, and investors have already made solid gains from those two stocks. What TSLA stock and RIVN stock don’t have is the explosive upside potential that many smaller EV stocks do. One…
Consumers around the world are all too familiar with inflation by now. With inflation expected to stay elevated throughout the year, the Federal Reserve is taking a more aggressive stance to tighten monetary policy by moving to increase interest rates and tame the sustained rise in prices. The Fed raised the interest rate for the fourth time this year in July, representing the largest…
It’s no surprise that the conflict in Ukraine has had a significant impact on fertilizer stocks in the stock market this year. Eastern Europe is an important wheat belt and a large exporter of fertilizer. As a result of the conflict, it has made wheat prices vulnerable. Simply put, the Ukraine-Russia war has caused a hike in the prices for…
Technology stocks have mounted a stellar rally since their June low, but even so, many of the stocks are trading well below their highs. Yes, the surge by technology stocks in 2021 was excessive, but for contrarian investors, the subsequent selling was overdone. That’s the situation with UiPath Inc (NYSE:PATH), a provider of enterprise software used in the robotic process…
Cyber security stocks are a type of investment that is becoming increasingly popular in the stock market as the world becomes more reliant on technology. For the uninitiated, Cyber security stocks are companies that provide products or services that help to protect against cyber attacks. These companies can range from small start-ups to large multinational corporations. While there is no…
The safest blue-chip dividend stocks can be pretty easy to sort out. Investing in them makes sense in turbulent times like those we are currently experiencing. Blue-chip stocks represent companies with household names that have proven quality, are reliable and tend to operate profitably in good times and in bad times. In other words, they carry an inherent degree of safety…
Many people try to time real estate markets or predict when the ups and downs will be. While it seems easy to time a real estate market after seeing what happened in the past, it is much more difficult trying to predict the future. The world’s smartest economists have trouble predicting real estate markets. There are so many variables that…
The last time I wrote about penny stocks for InvestorPlace in January, I used the traditional $5 criteria for qualification. All seven of my stock picks have gotten hammered in 2022. That should tell you how risky it is to buy penny stocks. In today’s world, where fractional shares are commonplace, more than ever, quality is far more critical than…