Lastest Stories by Eric Bleeker

It’s been a great year if you’re looking for yield. 10-Year Treasuries hit almost a 5% yield in October! Yet, they’ve fallen since, down to 4.4% in about a month’s time. As the yields on...
The market has rallied across the past week and the S&P 500 is suddenly is suddenly up 13.97% year-to-date. Yet, while the market itself is up, certain stocks have struggled while others have...
You can’t buy Trader Joe’s stock even if you waned to. Which sucks, because Trader Joe’s is one of the best chains in America! That’s because Trader Joe’s is privately-owned. Yet, even...
With Tesla‘s (NASDAQ: TSLA) shares on the march north again, investors are starting to ask when the company might split its shares again. It might surprise you to learn that in spite of its...
Buc-ee’s has become an absolute phenomenon. Its stores are located along Interstates and are absolutely massive, some with more than 100 gas pumps and hundreds of parking spaces. Devoted Buc-ee’s...
Between the end of 2012 and 2022, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) stock saw its share price decline by 9%. That’s a horrible return for any stock across a decade. However, if you included dividends the...
Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) has been one of the stock market’s biggest success stories ever.  The company IPO’d in May 1997 and traded for an astonishingly low-split adjusted price (just $.07 per...
Costco is famous for its $1.50 hot dogs, but why does it keep them at such an incredibly cheap level. After all, its not just a 1/4 pound all beef hot dog, it also comes with a soda that would...
While some look at the growth of Texas and say “flee the state” before the masses move in, businesses are doing the opposite. In recent years massive corporations from Tesla to Oracle have moved...
Let me start of by saying something that’s not very controversial: Ozempic (and other obesity drugs like it) are changing American society. The last 3 months of 2022 saw more than 9 million...
The Nasdaq saw its biggest loss since February on Wednesday. The PHLX Semiconductor Index (Nasdaq: SOX) fell 4.13% in a single day. It’s now down 17% from where it closed in July. While the Nasdaq...
The Dow Jones (INDEXDJX: .DJI) fell a relatively modest .32% while the Nasdaq saw a fire sale that brought it down 2.43% on Wednesday. Let’s dive into what happened across major indexes on October...
It was an ugly day in the market today, but Shopify (NYSE:SHOP) fell 7.36% while the S&P 500 dropped 1.43%. What led to this dramatic underperformance? We’ll dive into a few details as to why...
MercadoLibre (NASDAQ:MELI), Sea Limited (NYSE:SE), and Block (NYSE:SQ) were all stock market darlings in the aftermath of Covid. A big reason is that each stock has big connections to commerce —...
F5 Networks (Nasdaq: FFIV) has seen its share price largely trade flat since the end of 2010. If you look at just the last five years, the picture gets even worse with its share price down 14%. Yet,...