The stock market’s reaction to Donald Trump’s upset victory has been calmer than expected. But while the broad indices haven’t freaked out, certain sectors of the market have seen big movements.We’ve talked about big moves among pharmaceutical and hospital stocks, as well as in the technology sector. Shares… Read More
Robert Frick is Editorial Director of Investing Daily. Bob is a career business and financial journalist, with a 15-year tenure as senior editor for Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine, in addition to working as a newspaper business writer and editor, and a stint as an investment writer for USA Today.
He’s a nationally recognized authority on behavioral finance, and worked two years as a writer, researcher and speaker for the Allianz Global Investors Center for Behavioral Finance.
He has co-authored three books on personal finance, and holds an M.B.A. and a B.A. (Journalism) from the Pennsylvania State University
Analyst Articles
Today, we’re announcing the end of one of our newsletters, but not the end of our faith in emerging markets (though you may have given up on them a long time ago). It’s a faith we continue to champion in our Personal Finance newsletter as a key growth engine… Read More
Sometimes a short seller can’t catch a break. You’d think that a company’s stock would drop when it admits to the Federal Trade Commission that it’s been manipulating customers, will pay a $200 million fee and will enact draconian changes to its business to reduce this deception.But that’s the story of Herbalife,… Read More
A pivotal scene in “The Big Short” has a skeptic scoffing at a quirky money manager who wants to short the housing market. The manager, Dr. Michael Burry (played by Christian Bale), has found portfolios of mortgages rotten with toxic subprime paper.The U.S. economy is sitting on a massive housing… Read More
We are adding the TMX Group (TSX:X, OTC: TMXXF) to the Dividend Champions portfolio.A drop recent drop in TMX Group’s stock price, which we believe was an overreaction to some recent news, has made its yield an attractive 4.4%.TMX Group is the main provider of trading platforms for equities, fixed… Read More
Some heartland U.S. cities’ economies are heating up, finally. Read More
Just when you thought it could go no lower, the price of oil slipped again this week. On Tuesday it fell below $37 a barrel and Big Oil stocks felt even more pain, as did the Dow generally, off 245 points.A host of bad economic news comes with oil’s plummet… Read More
Don’t be fooled by shopping projections. Read More
The economy has been so weak for so long we’re anchored to low expectations. Read More
The financial industry may have baggage, but the bags are stuffed with money. Read More