This healthcare edition of Industry Focus takes a look at three biotech stocks and why each company is positioned for a great performance in the coming year.If your portfolio could use some exposure to healthcare and biotechs, join the Fool’s Michael Douglass and Todd Campbell, along with special guest Kristine Harjes, to learn more about three promising stocks in the […]
If trading stocks is part of your New Year’s resolutions for 2015, here’s an app for you to get oriented with capital markets – minus the risksImage from ShutterstockMANILA, Philippines – The sight of stock market financial ticker tapes can be daunting to the untrained eye.That’s why many companies offer seminars to individuals interested in investing and trading stocks. But […]
Jordan Kessler, the five-year-old son of trader Glenn Kessler, uses his father’s mobile phone and badge as he visits the floor of the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Mohammed Islam, a 17-year-old high school senior, pretended to be a stock genius who made $72m but was unmasked. Photograph: Richard Drew/AP
Tall tales are nothing new in finance. The same […]
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadEpisode 49: The least downloaded of the 10 wealth building principles is: #9 Be a Giver. No surprise, which also explains why so many people don’t have wealth. To quote Earl Nightingale: To become rich, you must first enrich others. Truer words were never spoken.When I first wrote the ninth wealth building principle, I […]
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadEpisode 48: As the energy sector falters, the transportation industry flies high. In this episode we discuss the general market with focus on four areas: Transportation, Consumer Staples, Utilities, and the US Dollar.Subscribe to the Wealthsteading Podcast:via iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wealthsteading-podcast/id896417058via STITCHER: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=53115&refid=stprHosted by John Pugliano. The Wealthsteading Podcast teaches 10 wealth building principles to help […]
Benchmarks settled in the green as investors continued to be encouraged by efforts from China and Europe to boost their economies. Retail stocks surged as investors believe lower gasoline prices will boost retail sales this holiday season. The S&P 500 and the Dow yet again closed at record highs. Separately, a rally among bio-tech stocks and tech-giant Apple boosted the […]
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadEpisode 47: My news sources are very simple.– Firstly, I avoid visual media of any kind (ie no broadcast, cable or internet TV).– To find the truth, I triangulate between the New York Times & the Wall Street Journal.– Investor’s Business Daily is a good reference for current stock market trends.– The Financial Times, […]
Share on StockTwitsEmbedAs confident as I am in the social revolution and boom….I worry about all of the above in the title as I travel for a month talking to Stocktwits customers.Fun facts about global markets at this point in time:1. The US markets are at all-time highs (software and biotech continue to lead)2. Oil has dropped below $80/barrel for […]
I’m too depressed this morning to write anything useful.Yesterday I “visited” my bank safety deposit box and leafed through a pile of share certificates. There was the magazine that went broke. There were the many biotech drugs that failed their human trials and never got FDA approval. There’s the New England bank that’s actually doing well but refuses to pay […]
It sounds repetitive but Wednesday was yet another day with some morning pressure which led to dip buyers showing up later in the session; this is what you want to see in a bull market. The S&P 500 fell 0.07% while the NASDAQ gained 0.31%. There has been very little news in the U.S. this week but European indexes were […]
