Investors Punishing Earnings Misses the Most Since 2016
An article in Bloomberg reports that investors are penalizing earnings misses more than surprises by the widest margin in almost 2 years.…
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Wall Street’s Sucker’s Bets: Investing or Gambling?
When it comes to some popular investment products, people who compare Wall Street to a casino may not be too far off…
Powerful Recession Signal Getting Wall Street’s Attention
The yield curve—the difference between short-term and long-term government bond yields—is “perilously close to predicting a recession—something it has done before with…
Wall Street Looks to Superforecasting
The importance of accurate forecasting is leading some firms to using so-called superforecasting—a statistical approach in which “large numbers of estimates are…
Equal Pay: 3 Steps to Close the Gap in Finance
Equal Pay Day calls attention to the reality that there is not equal pay for men and women. Unfortunately, the financial industry…
Retail Sales Down, What About Retail ETFs?
U.S. retail sales declined for a third straight month (December 2017, January 2018, February 2018), which points to a slowdown in economic…
Investors Getting Cautious on Small-Cap ETFs
The iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF (NYSEArca: IJR) and the iShares Russell 2000 ETF (NYSEArca: IWM) along with other small-cap exchange traded…