There Are Big Problems for the Biggest Banks
Source: Thinkstock Recently, one of the world’s largest financial institutions – JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) — announced that the decline in its trading business is accelerating. As a result, the stock fell...
View Article3 Risk-On ETFs That Are Underperforming
Source: Thinkstock One thing that investors should look at when trying to determine the overall direction of the stock market is the performance of “risk on” assets. These are assets that people want...
View ArticleStock Market: Be Cautious at These All-Time Highs
Source: Thinkstock With the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting an all-time high on Monday and with the S&P 500 nearly hitting a new all-time high, it seems as if U.S. stocks are the place to be....
View ArticleWhy Weak Retail Sales Are Disconcerting
Source: Thinkstock On Tuesday we learned that retail sales in the U. S. grew by just 0.1 percent in April. So while stocks trade near all-time highs, and while the headline unemployment rate is coming...
View ArticleWatch Out! These Dow Stocks Are Rolling Over
Investors often look to the Dow Jones Industrial Average for stocks that have stable profits, global exposure, universally recognized brands, and a general level of safety. But this hardly means that...
View ArticleAvoiding Big Banks: Why Financial Stocks Are Risky
Source: Thinkstock Financial stocks have been underperforming the broader stock market for the year. Year-to-date the SPDR Financial ETF (NYSE:XLF) is up about 4 percent while the S&P 500 is up...
View ArticleWhisper Number: How Will JPMorgan’s Stock Move After Earnings?
JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) is expected to report earnings on Tuesday, July 15. The whisper number is $1.28, one cent behind the analysts’ estimate and showing no confidence from investors. JPMorgan has a 73...
View ArticleWhy JPMorgan’s Beat Leaves a Lot of Room to Get Negative
Source: Thinkstock Market expectations were pretty low for JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) going into the company’s second-quarter earnings release, and the company was able to easily beat the numbers. But while...
View ArticleJP Morgan: A Financial Giant’s Guide to Surviving the Holidays
Andrew Burton/Getty Images Need a strategy for getting through the holiday season? You can hunker down, as many do, and buy all of the most-wanted gifts, whip up all the snacks and meals, and make...
View Article10 of the Biggest Wall Street Busts of All Time
Wall Street: A place where money gets thrown around like it’s meaningless. It’s a place where fortunes are made and lost, and where daily screaming matches over the future prices of soybeans take...
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