Tag: Stocks
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Are investors overly optimistic?
Investors expecting returns of 17.5% after inflation in the coming years? Wow. In a recent survey of 750 U.S. individual investors, Natixis Investment Managers found these people expect to earn 17.3% this year, after inflation. That might not sound like pie in the sky. The S&P 500 returned 18.4% last year, counting dividends, and is up 15.9%…
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Short sellers are staying away from financial stocks
How long can we expect financial sector stocks to continue to climb? Short-sellers held just 1.57% of financial sector stocks at the end of May, the lowest percentage of any of the S&P 500’s 11 groups, according to an analysis by S&P Global Market Intelligence. That compares to an average of 2.21% of shares in…
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The Yield – Week ending June 18, 2021
Stocks drop for the week, oil prices hit a high, jobless claims increase, the year of the individual investor, Microsoft names new board chairman, IBM closes an acquisition, Sonoco expands recycling, and Verizon gets a contract. All that including my weekly portfolio update and dividend news
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Update: Supreme Court refuses to hear J&J appeal
I’m sure that will cause the stock to decline just a bit. The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to consider a Johnson & Johnson appeal that sought to challenge a $2.1 billion civil judgment awarded to 20 women who alleged the company’s talcum baby powder caused ovarian cancer. The court rejected the J&J appeal in a…
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Johnson & Johnson makes an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to review baby powder verdict
J&J is asking the court to review the verdict in which a $2 billion verdict was handed down by a jury regarding J&J’s baby powder product. The court could decide as soon as Tuesday if they will hear the case. Johnson & Johnson is asking for a Supreme Court review of a $2 billion verdict…
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Momentum investing means you’re usually behind the curve
In the short run people might make out. But you’ll never know if you’re getting in when the momentum is subsiding or when it’s just starting to take off. It only works in the long term if the businesses use this opportunity to turn themselves around. If they continue on the same path of being…