The combination of higher EPS and company buying usually provides a short-term boost to the stock. This makes Wall Street happy, keeps the activists at bay, and helps management enhance the value of its stock options and meet bonus targets.
The U.S. stock market has historically rebounded well and quickly from bad world news.
Golf is not only a metaphor for life, but for investing also.
People frequently ask me how they should invest their money. While everybody’s situation is different, I always advise them to not invest any funds likely to be needed in the next three to five years.
High-frequency” trading firms spend billions in a high-stakes arms race to gain a millisecond’s edge on executions. But while speed may be valuable to traders, it can be extremely detrimental to investors.
Life lessons can be learned in every job, no matter how humble.
The two things you can do that will have a big financial impact are both elegant and radical in their simplicity: Spend less and save more.
Volatility returned with a vengeance in the first quarter of 2015, as investors grappled with increasing uncertainty associated with Federal Reserve policy, signs the U.S. economy has hit a soft patch, and lowered expectations for corporate earnings.
It’s logical that you want to invest with a manager who has a significant amount invested alongside you. Why? The manager’s financial interests are aligned with yours.
Buffett believes in America and puts his money where his mouth is.
To understand the evolution of Buffett’s investment process, it’s important to know his history with Berkshire.
Mini-tenders are often used to catch small investors off guard and take advantage of their lack of knowledge.
Outcome is the result, but doesn’t tell you anything about how that result was achieved. Outcome is about the “right now.
Narcissism can be a precursor to selfish and/or unethical CEO behavior, which can also cause your investment to perish.
At a basic, Economics 101 level, an imbalance has developed between supply and demand.
if you can get comfortable with uncertainty; adopt a long-term perspective; and follow a disciplined, patient and unemotional investment approach, you’ll be miles ahead of most investors.
DonorsChoose enables public schoolteachers to post classroom project requests and donors to pick the projects they want to support.
This holiday season, skip buying the got-to-have whatever and consider establishing or making a gift to a young person’s 529 plan account. Not only is it a gift that will last a lifetime, but if you’re an Indiana resident, the state will pick up 20 percent of the cost.
U.S. mutual funds are required to “distribute” realized capital gains and income to shareholders at least annually, making this a tricky time of year for investors to buy shares in taxable accounts.
While the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor’s 500 index reached record highs on the last day of October, most active stock managers have struggled in 2014. One of the primary difficulties has been the wide divergence in performance between the largest-capitalization and smaller-capitalization stocks.
