Following revelations of misuse of customer data by social media giant Facebook, stocks of the big players in the tech industry dropped precipitously last week. Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google — the so-called FAANG stocks — have shedded more than $397 billion in market cap since the Nasdaq Composite peak on March 12. All […]
Reeling from the effects of public outrage over abuse of its customers private data, the stock of Facebook, once the the golden boy of Wall Street, has taken a beating. Facebook’s share price is down 15% since mid-March, leading a broad exodus from new economy stocks. To add insult to injury, Apple CEO Tim Cook […]
Technological changes over the last two decades have transformed the way people live and work. They’ve also impacted the way people perceive investment risk, according to new research. A recently published research paper that shows a connection between technological disruption and the substantive changes that have taken place in investor behavior. Researchers Stavros Panageas at UCLA […]
The world’s elite billionaire investors are feeling jittery about the current fragile state of the stock and bond markets. These very smart wealth creators have learned from decades of experience that when paper assets are ballooning in value it is time to hedge the risks with hard assets, including gold. The precious metal last spiked […]
Is it time for that long-predicted bear market to finally begin? A Goldman Sachs computer model says yes! One model created by the Wall Street giant shows a dangerous bear market — more than a blip or correction but outright stock selling sustained for a long period — is right around the corner. The Goldman […]
Eight in 10 large investors will renew their focus on alternative assets — less liquid investments such as private equity and absolute return funds — as stocks and bond returns increasingly fall short of expectations. Many big investment first project inflation adjusted returns for stocks in the low single digits or even negative in the […]
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Global revenues derived from precious metals-related investments surpassed oil-based revenues for the bottom lines of over 50 investment banks in 2017. This was the first time since 2014 that this happened in the commodities sector. According to statistics compiled by Coalition, a financial industry analysis company, the 50 largest investment banks and financial institutions in […]
Typically, consumer staples stocks are seen as a defensive sector, something to own when stocks are challenged. Companies in this sector tend to have boring business models, selling things like cleaning supplies, soap, or toothpaste. Basically, stuff where there will be demand regardless of economic conditions. Since the bull market began in 2009, these stocks have […]
Retail giant Amazon might be gearing up to provide wealth management services, according to industry observers. And that could drive down investing costs to nothing at all. It makes sense. Financial advice has become increasingly commoditized in order to reach out to even the smallest of investors. Now the company that pioneered online retail is […]
