Lastest Stories by Jon C. Ogg

Warren Buffett is known for trying to bring calm to the markets and signaling that America's greatest days are ahead of it. What does it signal when he chose not to acquire stocks after the recent...
Monday's top analyst upgrades and downgrades included Apple, Best Buy, Cinemark, Co-Diagnostics, DraftKings, Energizer, Novavax, Nvidia, Palo Alto Networks and Petrobras.
More employees appear to be heading back to work. The weekly jobless numbers are still ghastly compared to the past, but they are becoming less ghastly.
It would be easy to interpret a SPAC IPO during a recession as some form of speculation gone wild. There is another side of that view that should also be considered.
Thursday's top analyst upgrades and downgrades included Adobe, Baker Hughes, Best Buy, Cisco Systems, CyberArk Software, Enphase Energy, Grubhub, Jumia Technologies, SmileDirectClub, Under Armour and...
Monitoring freight and rail traffic is one of the primary means of knowing what is happening inside the economy. The situation looks dire.
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (NYSE: RCL) has not been spared from the investor carnage that has been seen in the cruise industry. On top of needing capital, the company had previously announced a...
Sometimes the news has an exaggerated impact on the financial markets. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell provided the exaggeration on Wednesday.
Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) is caught between a rock and a hard place in the COVID-19 recession. The bad news is that even its domestic operations are suffering. The good news is that the declines...
Wednesday's top analyst upgrades and downgrades included Bluebird Bio, Ciena, CommVault Systems, Dollar General, JD.com, Kroger, Nucor, Target and Walmart.
Even in bear markets and recessions, some nimble companies either have incredibly resilient management teams or just happen to be in the right place at the right time.
In 2020, sovereign debt defaults in emerging markets are likely to become much more common, putting billions of dollars at risk for emerging market and junk bond investors who chase high yields and...
MicroVision is exploring strategic alternatives in an effort to maximize its shareholder value. Whether that is a sale of the company, a sale of some products or a venture remains to be seen.
When the Federal Reserve lowers interest rates to zero at the same time the Treasury has printed trillions of dollars for economic stimulus, many classical economists would throw up a red flag.
Tuesday's top analyst upgrades and downgrades included Apple, CenterPoint Energy, Chevron, Datadog, Home Depot, Novavax and Under Armour.