Lower interest rates increase business investment by making it cheaper and easier for businesses to borrow money in order to finance new projects. They have much the same effect on consumers, who might act on a major new purchase or buy a home because low financing rates make it achievable. Lowering interest rates to boost
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The S&P 500 is on fire at the moment on the heels of an excellent earnings season. It seems that nothing can stop the current bull run as the markets have proved very resilient. But some are still sounding the alarm that a steep market correction is near, which means it is the right time
After the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, cloud-based e-commerce platform Shopify (NYSE:SHOP) entered into a boom phase of epic proportions. As a result, anyone who happened to own SHOP stock enjoyed a spectacular return on his or her investment. Source: Beyond The Scene / Shutterstock.com Unlike some other e-commerce companies, Shopify is seller-focused: the company offers
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., October 14, 2021. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Uncertainty about a new emerging coronavirus strain could continue to spook markets, just as Friday’s employment report and other data in the week ahead show the economy has been getting stronger.
Ready to step directly into the metaverse? Or at least, get portfolio exposure to it? If so, then consider spatial data company Matterport (NASDAQ:MTTR), as MTTR stock is a pure-play investment in the metaverse’s future growth. Source: Ken Wolter / Shutterstock.com It’s a speculative play, I’ll admit. The metaverse is still a new concept to
SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ:SOFI) is a fintech company seeking to disrupt the traditional banking market. SOFI stock officially launched earlier this year after it completed a merger with one of Chamath Palihapitiya’s special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs). Source: rafapress / Shutterstock.com Out of the gate, SoFi generated a lot of excitement. Unlike some of its fintech
GameStop (NYSE:GME) has been one of the year’s most amazing stories. Coming into 2021, GameStop appeared to be a nearly bankrupt video game retailer stuck in a death spiral. However, thanks to social media activism, GME stock flew to the moon in January. Source: rblfmr/Shutterstock.com Management used that opportunity to issue stock and raise sufficient
Friday’s sharp decline for stocks, spurred by concerns over a new Covid-19 variant, is not a buying opportunity, according to CNBC’s Jim Cramer. “We’re going to wake up next week and find one [case] in this country, and I’m not going to recommend anyone buy anything today until we’re sure that isn’t going to happen.
In this article MSFT RCL DAL ZM A Delta airlines aircraft landing from Los Angeles at Kingsford Smith International airport on October 31, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. James D. Morgan | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines before the bell Friday: Travel and leisure stocks – Airline stocks are getting hit hard in
Right after the release of its earnings on Nov. 7, Roblox’s (NASDAQ:RBLX) stock jumped 40%. It hasn’t stopped since. Source: Michael Vi / Shutterstock.com RBLX stock has moved even higher in recent days, breaking past a strong resistance level at $90 and topping the $140 mark. and even though it pulled back slightly, Roblox is
The simplified employee pension individual retirement account (SEP IRA) is a cost-effective option for small business owners who want to offer retirement benefits to their employees. The employer may also contribute to their own SEP account. As the name implies, setting up and managing a SEP IRA is streamlined compared to procedures for establishing and
When investors abandoned Peloton (NASDAQ:PTON) stock in droves after the company posted quarterly results on Nov. 4, people should have expected it. Source: JHVEPhoto / Shutterstock.com Since July, when PTON stock peaked, bulls failed to take the share price above the 50 and 200 day moving averages. The leisure stationary exercise bike maker suffers from
For the past two months, Gevo (NASDAQ:GEVO) has moved sideways, trading between $5 and $8 per share. This comes after GEVO stock tried to bounce back amid news of several promising deals for the renewable energy company, which helped to fuel this. Source: Oleksiy Mark / Shutterstock.com Unfortunately, it didn’t last long. Investors became impatient. Right
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft is put in the nosecone of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket in preparation for launch. Ed Whitma / Johns Hopkins APL / NASA Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to launch a first-of-its-kind planetary defense mission for NASA in the early hours of Wednesday morning, sending the spacecraft on its
Residential single family homes construction by KB Home are shown under construction in the community of Valley Center, California, U.S. June 3, 2021. Mike Blake | Reuters Not since Americans came home from World War II has inflation percolated through the U.S. economy like it is now, and it could continue to do so for
I’ve been helping investors for over a decade, and a persistently difficult point to make involves earnings trades. Zoom (NASDAQ:ZM) stock fell almost 20% yesterday on its earnings headline. Source: Girts Ragelis / Shutterstock.com For years I have struggled in convincing investors that the reaction to those headlines is completely binary overnight. Of course, the
For the last few months I have been warning investors away from Vinco Ventures (NASDAQ:BBIG) stock. Since my first story came out in September, the shares are down 67%. They closed November 23 at $3.13. Source: shutterstock.com/Postmodern Studio My problem with the company is that there is nothing there. It’s all hype and buzzwords like streaming
In addition to being a penny stock, Canadian cannabis producer Sundial Growers (NASDAQ:SNDL) has been one of this year’s most-popular meme trades. That, of course, is a recipe for volatility. So far this month, we’ve seen SNDL stock shoot up nearly 50% in just two weeks, only to give back more than half its gains.
In this article TSLA AAPL Closely watched money manager Cathie Wood told CNBC on Wednesday that Apple could have owned the driverless vehicle market by purchasing Tesla when given the chance during the electric vehicle maker’s troubled Model 3 ramp-up. “We’ve been watching Apple very carefully for years now. Because what is an autonomous vehicle?
A Gap store in New York, August 2, 2020. Scott Mlyn | CNBC Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Gap, Nordstrom — Shares of Gap and Nordstrom plummeted after the companies reported disappointing quarterly results late Tuesday citing rising labor costs, inventory issues, shopping costs and factory closures as challenges. Gap shares dropped