Dividend stocks — particularly the undervalued variety — offer tremendous relevance for market cycles that appear poised to transition from risk-on to risk-off sentiment. As such, targeting passive-income providers may be too conservative at this juncture. For instance, with the S&P 500 index gaining just over 15%, retail investors seem more than happy to bid up the capital market. Nevertheless, the official […]

While most of Wall Street focuses on large-cap and mega-cap stocks, as they provide a degree of safety and liquidity, many investors are limited in the number of shares they can buy. Many of the biggest public companies, especially the technology giants, trade in the hundreds, all the way up to over $1,000 per share or more. At those steep […]

As Americans celebrated all that makes their country great yesterday, I wonder how many included Apple (US:AAPL) on their list? After all, the $3 trillion-plus market capitalization was a nice Fourth of July gift for the country and its investors. True, AAPL stock has been at these lofty levels before, but closing and holding above $3 trillion? It’s a big […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The world’s dealmakers are roughly $US1 trillion ($1.5 trillion) down in one of the worst years for takeovers and stock market listings in a decade. That’s the year-on-year drop in the value of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and initial public offerings in the […]

Investors were net sellers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs) for the second consecutive week, redeeming a net $2.2 billion for the LSEG Lipper fund-flows week ended Wednesday, June 28. Fund investors were net purchasers of equity funds (+$2.8 billion) while being net redeemers of taxable bond funds (-$2.5 billion), money market funds (-$2.4 billion), and […]

While it seems like a million years ago now, who can ever forget the incredible rise of GameStop (and other highly shorted stocks) starting in January of 2021 and again later that year? A stunning 140% of the company’s float had been sold short by hedge funds and short sellers. It was noted later by Goldman Sachs that more than […]

Fintel reports that on June 28, 2023, Goldman Sachs maintained coverage of Snowflake Inc – (NYSE:SNOW) with a Buy recommendation. Analyst Price Forecast Suggests 5.29% Upside As of June 1, 2023, the average one-year price target for Snowflake Inc – is 186.38. The forecasts range from a low of 106.05 to a high of $525.00. The average price target represents […]

Premarket action on Tuesday had the three major U.S. indexes trading mixed. While the Dow Jones industrials were down 0.01%, the S&P 500 was up 0.21% and the Nasdaq 0.45% higher. Electric pickup truck maker Lordstown Motors Corp. (NASDAQ: RIDE) filed suit early Tuesday morning against Hon Hai Precision Industry, better known as Foxconn, charging the Taiwan-based manufacturing giant with […]

The futures were trading mixed after a lousy start to the trading week across Wall Street. All the major indexes finished lower, with the exception of the Russell 2000, as traders sitting on gains are looking to finish off the quarter nicely higher. They likely will, with the Nasdaq up just shy of 30% so far this year and the […]