Judging by the wild market gyrations of late 2018, what can investors expect in 2019? As Bette Davis famously warned in the 1950 movie All About Eve: “Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night.” These bumps include Brexit uncertainty; slowing growth in China; the unraveling of… Read More

Shares of healthcare conglomerate Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) plunged 10% on December 14 in response to an investigative news story by Reuters that accused the company of covering up the use of asbestos in its popular baby powder product: “From at least 1971 to the early 2000s,… Read More

There’s a new entry to the lexicon of hipster jargon: “vape.” It means inhaling and exhaling the vapor created by an e-cigarette, a battery-powered device that heats liquid nicotine in a disposable cartridge. E-cigarettes (e-cigs for short) are all the rage and they pose a challenge to traditional cigarette makers… Read More

In Part 2 of our discussion on annuities, we touch on variable annuities and review the choices available to investors when an annuity begins to pay out. Read More

The marijuana “green rush” has overtaken Wall Street, as investors jump aboard marijuana stocks the way frenzied gold miners descended on San Francisco in the 19th century. As with the gold rush of that bygone era, some green rush investors will get rich… and others will go bust. But the… Read More

As a certain girl from Kansas said: “There’s no place like home.” A home is still the biggest asset of most Americans and remains integral to consumer confidence. When the real estate market prospers, people feel wealthier. Instrumental in generating a “wealth effect” among Americans is the steady rise in… Read More

The stock market’s steep drop at the end of 2018 is good news for value investors. The list of candidates for best stocks under 20 dollars in 2019 just got longer as a result. Even still, just because a stock is cheap doesn’t mean it’s a bargain. Only 5% of… Read More

The social media platform Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) has become a staple of modern society. Everyone seems to have a Twitter account, from your local car mechanic, to Taylor Swift, to Pope Francis, to the president of the United States. Recent statistics show that 92% of world leaders use Twitter. Read More

Tivity Health shrunk 30% due to the news of its acquisition of Nutrisystem. Why the merger of two companies with the same mission doesn't (and shouldn't) make sense to investors. Read More

What’s an investor to make of Snap (NYSE: SNAP)? The concept behind the Snapchat app, the company’s core offering, is that pictures and messages are only available for a short time before they become inaccessible. While teens and millennials around the world Snapchat their latest misadventures to their friends, analysts… Read More