Category: US Stocks
FAANG: The New ‘Nifty Fifty’
Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google — these are hot stocks that everyone’s talking about. But look past the hype and you’ll see trouble on the horizon.
How Big Tech Has Become Big Brother
We all use Facebook and Google for leisure and work. But is it really as harmless as it seems? They have trapped us in a web of surveillance and censorship.
Investors Should Look Out for This
Even when investors stumble across a good idea, they often do very poorly by taking that idea to extremes. Let me explain why…
Why These US Economic Figures Should Make Us Nervous
The US may be looking like it is on a winning streak, but US consumers are basing future expectation on past performance. The problem with this thinking is that it is flawed.
What You Should Do If You’re Close to Retirement
To jump or not to jump out of a volatile market, that’s the question the mainstream is asking right now. What if you’re close to retirement and you’re just holding the market right now?
Standout Stocks You Should By In The Dip
Is that it? Stocks had a terrible October, but now everything will rally until the end of the year? It’s what market research firm Fundstrat seems to think.
A Memento Mori for the Bull Market
We take a trip through France, and we consider what history has to teach us about the fallacy of relying on the bull market to make you rich.
Why You Should Have Bought the Current Tech Dip
Is there more pain to come? Or are we in the midst of a false crash? We think that we’re actually at the start of another major tech mega-boom.
America’s Debt: A Recipe for Disaster
The stock market is more volatile than it’s ever been. Why? Well, it all comes down to America’s ferocious appetite for debt.
Can You Tell Fact from Fiction?
Brazilians went to the polls yesterday. And, it’s a fact that fake news has been rife throughout the election, mainly distributed through WhatsApp.
How a Chinese Billionaire Was Erased
Trump is at war with the US Federal Reserve over the issue of interest rates. How high is too high? And how low is too low? Here’s the inconvenient truth.
What Stocks to Buy During a Market Crash
Rather than run for the hills, I want to implore you to stay in stocks. Recession or no recession, correction or no correction, you can’t keep a wonderful company down.
$1.4 Million…Right Down into the Drain
The value of our money is disappearing before our eyes. Ironically, it’s the enigmatic British artist Banksy who personifies this sentiment best.
Stocks in Crisis — What It Means for Kiwi Investors
At the point of writing, the NZX 50 is down about 7.5% off its 1 October high. It’s following a plunge that originated on the American markets. The worst of it hit stocks in the energy, insurance, and tech sectors.