Saturday, December 28, 2024
In March and April, the pandemic-triggered stock market crash hit the high-yield investment sectors, especially hard. Exchange-traded funds and notes (ETFs, ETNs) lost up to 90% of their value in a very short time. UBS to Redeem Two Leveraged Mortgage ETNs After 95% Plunge “Leveraged” is the word to note. Before the COVID crisis, there […]
Stanley Black & Decker (SWK) has reported lower earnings the company says are the result of the COVID-19 impact this quarter. SWK saw revenue decrease 16% year-over-year to $3.1 billion in the second quarter. The company was able to maintain operating margins, which, excluding charges, were 12.8%, basically flat from last year. Earnings per share […]
We’re in the heart of earnings season, with some of the biggest companies in the world reporting this week. Yet, almost all the focus in the investment world is on gold and silver. After a long hiatus, it seems precious metals are back in the limelight. With the top Nasdaq-100 stocks like Apple (AAPL) and […]
How the lower dollar impacts our investment Recently, technology stock shares went down in value. The stocks didn’t drop that much, but they had done so well for so long, even despite the pandemic, that it was a bit of a shock to Wall Street. In particular, a few major tech stocks got hit the […]
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) exploded on Wednesday after announcing it expects for 2020 revenue to grow about 32% from 2019 to roughly $8.88 billion. That’s a respectable increase from initial guidance of $8.08 billion AMD had provided previously. Analysts were only looking for AMD 2020 revenue guidance of about $8.4 billion. AMD also earned an […]
The stock market crash at the start of the so-called “coronacrisis,” was especially devastating to share prices in high yield sectors. I attribute the extra steep declines to what I have labeled a “liquidity event,” in which leveraged funds using the high yield investments were forced to sell, sell, sell, to avoid becoming leveraged into […]
Eastman Kodak (KODK) surprised weary longtime investors this week with a deal from the government that sent the shares of the iconic film processor skyward. The company reported it had received a loan from the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (IDF) of $765 million to finance the production of generic drug ingredients. The loan was […]
The big earnings loser last week was Intel (INTC), the semiconductor giant. INTC badly missed earnings with a delay in production of their next-gen chip. The stock price dropped over 16% on the day after earnings were announced. As you’d expect, options volume was very high during the move, with a surprising amount of action […]
Last week, when Virgin Galactic (SPCE) announced it would be replacing its CEO, the company sent a clear signal that it will be moving from a novel “spaceship company” to a company focused on making money. The Sir Richard Branson-backed Virgin Galactic is scheduled to launch its first paying passengers into space later this year, […]
Since bottoming out at $1.92 in March 2020, shares of Lithium Americas (LAC) rocketed to a recent high of $5.78. All because there’s a potential lithium supply shortage. According to Reuters, “A new demand surge is already looming in the form of the multiple ‘green stimulus’ packages as governments try and kick-start locked-down economies. You don’t […]
