PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) stock got punished for its worse-than-expected fourth-quarter guidance back in November. But there wasn’t much to be worried about otherwise. In fact, it was a pretty good quarter except for the guidance the company provided. Source: JHVEPhoto / Shutterstock.com That means it looks like a buy-the-dip situation as one of the forefathers of
Looking back on 2021, the S&P 500 finished another year on a high. At the close of the 12-month period, the index had provided 27% returns to investors for the year. However, fears of another slowdown from new variants of the novel coronavirus or inflation will have several investors in a risk-averse mindset. In that
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Novavax (NASDAQ:NVAX) still remains poised to sell its vaccine for the coronavirus to many countries around the world, likely enabling it to generate very strong revenue in 2022 and possibly into 2023. Yet NVAX stock has fallen sharply in recent days. Source: rarrarorro / Shutterstock.com That makes the shares very attractive for medium-term investors. Shares
Facebook Inc. did more than a simple name change when it took on the Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:FB) moniker. It also put an emerging trend (the metaverse) on the map. Doing so didn’t give FB stock much of a boost. Source: Blue Planet Studio / Shutterstock.com It did help spark enthusiasm for several more speculative cryptos and stocks, as
What Is High-Frequency Trading (HFT)? For a time, it looked as if high-frequency trading (HFT) would take over the market completely. According to global investment firm Franklin Templeton in 2019, HFT has accounted for approximately “half of U.S. stock market trading volume on an annual basis since the global financial crisis (GFC) a decade ago.” This
Electric vehicles are taking over the world. You know that. I know that. The market knows that. We all know that. Source: Shutterstock Consumers want to drive electric vehicles these days, with 60% of today’s prospective car buyers wanting to buy an EV. Lawmakers want you to drive an EV, too, as more than 200
A KKR logo is displayed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), August 23, 2018. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Trading stocks in the capital markets in 2021 has not been an endeavor for the faint of heart. The year could be characterized by exciting events like a powerful influx of retail
If the opinion of the analyst community means anything, then SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ:SOFI) is a strong buy for 2022. At present, SOFI stock is over 60% less than its consensus price target of $24.63. Source: rafapress / Shutterstock.com However, since it first began trading publicly in December 2020, the stock has made three attempts at hitting this mark.
Today I’m going to talk about why would you sell a put rather than buy a call when you’re trading options? Both of those are looking for the stock to move in the upward direction. So why would you do one over the other? In this video I’ll explain it to you. Check it out!
Emerging fintech firm SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ:SOFI) is consolidating at the $15 a share level. After breaking out in October, only to peak at over $20 in November, SOFI stock is near $15 again. The Federal Reserve’s rate heightening policy spooked fintech investors. A sell-off in mega-cap electronic payment processing firms did not help matters, either.
Perhaps no other market segment besides oil stocks have featured as strong a will-they, won’t-they narrative of pure binary chaos. At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, oil prices slipped to below zero, an unprecedented circumstance as the global economy ground to a halt. With much of the world citizenry sheltering in place, there was
Coupons can drive customers to your business. In today’s world, 96% of consumers have used a coupon in the past 90 days. JC Penney tried to break consumers of the coupon habit in 2012 and quickly saw a 23% drop in sales for the first three quarters of 2012. If JC Penney couldn’t change people’s
Investors in Cloudflare (NYSE:NET) stock are finding life in the middle to be baffling. In the past 12 months, NET stock was being overlooked for reasons that I would have to guess had to do with investors chasing other sectors. Source: IgorGolovniov / Shutterstock.com But that all changed in early summer. As our Louis Navellier points out
In this article CFX PTON PFE AMD XOM XLNX Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Exxon Mobil (XOM) – The energy giant signaled that it will report a fourth consecutive quarterly profit, thanks in large part to stronger oil and gas prices. The snapshot of fourth quarter results came in an SEC
The crypto market has sold off this month, fueling the debate about whether the bull run is coming to a halt. Industry leaders such as Ethereum (CCC:ETH-USD) have shed a fair share of their values in the past month. However, there have been a few anomalies, of which Ethereum’s aggregator Polygon (CCC:MATIC-USD) takes the cake. With
With Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:FB) stock facing dangerous threats and unlikely to generate big returns for investors over the next year or two, I don’t believe that the shares are a buy for any type of medium-term or long-term investor. Meta Platforms is the company formerly known as Facebook. Source: Chinnapong / Shutterstock.com Among the biggest risks
In this article NCLH PFE Paxlovid, a Pfizer’s coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pill, is seen manufactured in Ascoli, Italy, in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters on November 16, 2021. Pfizer | Handout | via Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Pfizer — Shares jumped 1.9% after British regulators approved the
With enterprise artificial intelligence software company C3.ai (NYSE:AI) adding impressive customers and growing its revenue at a fairly rapid pace, I continue to believe the company can become the “Microsoft of AI.” Just as Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) developed tools that made it easy for businesses to develop documents and perform complex calculations, C3.ai has created products
The rising cost of a college degree has more students than ever borrowing to cover their expenses. While some students opt for loans from private lenders, as of March 2021, an estimated 42.9 million borrowers have Federal Direct Loans. Subsidized vs. Unsubsidized Federal Direct Loans may be subsidized or unsubsidized. Both types offer numerous benefits,