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Investopedia2 PRINT It’s official! Congress and the White House agreed on something (yes, you read that right: ALL of Congress AND the White House). To avoid a possible government shutdown – something quite embarrassing going into an election year – a $1.15 trillion fiscal package was signed into law Friday. The bill includes 2,009 pages…
One of Wall Street’s cardinal sins is a “set it and forget it” mentality. What I mean by that is there’s often a flurry of interest in specific stocks and then… nothing. That’s too bad because the devil, as they say, is always in the details. As we have discussed many times at Total Wealth, you’ve…
Quick… how many Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA) technicians does it take to fix a DVR? Eight, evidently… and my DVR is still not working after five weeks of calling offshore customer service centers, visiting technicians who are guaranteed to arrive within a “two-hour window,” and even the company’s executive resolution team. Sadly, my predicament isn’t unusual, and…
Many of my readers have written to say they made a killing trading Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. (NYSE: VRX) since I told you the stock was “Everything That’s Wrong with the Markets” (Oct. 15, 2015). That trade has certainly gone our way, as VRX crashed from $168.87 to close at $61.31 on Friday. Those VRX…
The escalating legal battle between Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is drawing out some strong emotions and, more importantly, persuasive arguments from both sides. And yet, the issue is much more than a mere legal test case; this Silicon Valley contretemps carries ramifications for everyone who owns (or wants…
Investing and increasing the value of your assets is difficult … It’s very hard to predict the winners which makes it very risky. Even if you like picking stocks and you win most of the time, unforeseen circumstances can burn even the best stock pickers. Most Americans would prefer to keep their money safe, so instead…
Many traders often confuse implied volatility with historical volatility. Implied volatility is what the market “expects” in the future. Historical volatility essentially is a way to tell how far the stock might move in the future based on how fast it has been moving in the recent past. It is a lagging indicator. Let’s take a closer look at what historical volatility is…
Summary UNP shares have continued their slide on the stock market this year as its entire business, except the automotive segment, is under pressure. UNP’s performance in the coal segment will weaken further as production and supply of the fossil fuel is declining as coal plants are being retired. Even in the intermodal segment, UNP…
I was a tad premature in calling the end of the bounce in Netflix last week. With 14% of the float sold short, NFLX is presumably enjoying some short covering action as the rest of the market continues to rally from oversold conditions. Among the FANG stocks, Amazon and Facebook have been doing the heavy lifting…
Goldman Sachs Wants a "Revolution," so Grab These Shares Now
Goldman Sachs thinks they’ve spotted an economic anomaly – and they’re warning it may force the firm to redefine the nature of capitalism itself. In a research note, produced by a team of analysts and released earlier this year to clients, the firm highlights the fact that profit margins in the United States and elsewhere…
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