Source: Flickr user stockmonkeys.com .The pop-and-drop nature of the biotech industry makes owning stocks in the sector particularly dicey. But for investors willing to take on the risk of failure, a number of intriguing small-cap biotech companies are working on important new therapies that could make a big impact on patients’ lives and investors’ wallets. Here are three of thesecompanies.No. […]
Never mind how the U.S. stock market is posting modest year-to-date losses close to 2%. Momentum stocks are up and so is risk taking.A comparison of the iShares MSCI USA Momentum Factor ETF (MTUM) – a good proxy for the risk appetite of bullishly trending stocks – versus the S&P 500 (^GSPC) shows that momentum stocks have not yet lost their luster. Over the past […]
Data should do more than help companies save money — it should make them money, said Peter Fishman, Director of Analytics at Yammer, Inc.. Since July of 2012, Yammer has been a part of Microsoft, Corp., providing private social networks within the company and contributing to Microsoft’s suite of products.Peter Fishman discussed Yammer’s integration with Microsoft, how companies can get […]
By Cris SheridanOver the last several years, two powerful forces have helped to drive the stock market far higher than many have expected. The first, as we all know, has been very loose monetary policy through a combination of low rates and continuous rounds of QE by the Federal Reserve.The second has been the record amount of stocks bought by […]
Twitter Inc.’s (TWTR) insiders and early backers finally have the option to relinquish their stakes in the company as the ‘lockup period’ – a 180-day restriction imposed on selling Twitter stock on certain classes of shareholders – has expired today. The expiration makes nearly 480 million shares eligible for sale, which equals nearly 83% of the basic outstanding shares issued […]
Question: I’m trying to decide which would make a better core equity holding: an S&P 500 index fund or a total stock market index fund. What should I take into consideration? Answer: Given the increasing popularity of index funds–which account for about one out of every six dollars invested in equity mutual funds and the vast majority of assets invested […]
