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Analysts scrutinizing historical trends are befuddled by a market that reflects a situation with no precedent. We have a pandemic that won’t end and a Federal Reserve that is dragging its feet...
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have been gaining popularity in recent years and as investors' appetite grows for these investment instruments, asset managers are converting more and more mutual funds to...
Despite its status as a global communications platform, Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) has failed to unlock its true value. While the San Francisco-based micro-blogging firm posted its first real yearly profit...
The Bitcoin meltdown that took on speed this weekend continues today. The selloff of the digital currency has now taken the token below the psychological round $50,000 threshold, a level beneath which...
Energy prices, especially oil stocks—which have seen solid returns in 2021—have recently come under pressure, in part due to the new Omicron variant. Crude oil has different grades, but...
Crude prices are likely to swing within the mid $60s-to-$70 a barrel range this week as Saudi Arabia, and other producers in the OPEC+ alliance, try to rescue the market from continued fears over...
If there was any doubt before that Christine Lagarde is out of her depth as head of the second-most important central bank in the world, the floundering at the European Central Bank (ECB) in the face...
Unlike many other stocks, shares of iPhone-maker, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) are holding up quite well during the current bout of market volatility, triggered by the emergence of a new COVID-19 variant,...
Stocks on Wall Street ended lower on Friday, with the S&P 500 wrapping up a volatile week dominated by uncertainty around the Federal Reserve's policy tightening path as well as the impact of the...
Equity investors will likely see another bout of volatility next week as concerns grow over the outlook for the global economic recovery after the emergence of the Omicron variant of COVID which has...
Supply-chain issues have been in the spotlight in recent months. The reopening of global economies has meant increased demand in different segments, leading to shortages as well as higher prices. In...
A year-end sell-off is accelerating in raw sugar as concerns about demand are heightened by the new COVID variant, Omicron. After a drop of almost 7% over two weeks, the question...
Yesterday, we pointed out that based on fundamentals, gold should have weakened after the Federal Reserve Chairman, Jerome Powell, made a clear, strong case for tightening monetary policy....
Streaming entertainment giant NFLX stock is up around 17.5% in 2021. Netflix’s content offerings, such as Squid Game and La Casa de Papel, have helped increase subscriber numbers...
The final week of November brought increased volatility to broader markets. But when looking at the year as a whole, so far the Dow Jones, the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 are up 12.9%, 22.0% and...
Two weeks ago, I asked this pertinent question in my column on natural gas: Could it hit mid-$4 or below, before the cold really arrives in the United States?At the time of my muse, the spot...
Global coffee chain operator Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) is under pressure after staging a powerful rebound this summer from the pandemic-induced weakness.Its stock, after surging to a record high in...