The most frequent question I have received over the past few weeks of April has to be tied to the Fear of Missing Out (FOMO). What if the bottom is in? What if we make new highs? That has certainly been the conditioning for the
I’ve written about the Value Line Geometric Average before and what it represents. I recommend readers review the following to get a better understanding. The geometric average better represents the realized return that most investors experience from the average stock. For the US markets, the
Click here to watch the Friday, April 17, 2020 episode of Berman’s Call on BNN Bloomberg The global cost of recovery from COVID-19 will likely be in the tens of trillions when the dust settles. There is no limit to the amount of support we
Click here to watch the Thursday, April 2, 2020 episode of Berman’s Call on BNN Bloomberg TOP PICKS: INDA, FM, GLD One of the market impacts from this crisis is a cut to dividends. From companies looking to save cash From legislation that will limit
Please, make sure you do your part in the global pandemic. Not to participate would be selfish. Sacrifice is needed by all to preserve as much life as possible. Take care of yourself and your loved ones. The 2008 post Lehman playbook is still in
First, make sure you do your part in the effort to moderate the global pandemic. Not to participate would be selfish. Sacrifice is needed by all to preserve as much life as possible. Take care of yourself and your loved ones. Although today is almost
It’s not the VIX at 50+. It’s the fact that after-tax corporate profits tracked by the Federal Reserve in the national income data has not gone up in 7 years (including Trump’s ill-timed tax cut) by the way. So what’s going on here? It’s simple,
Super Tuesday March 3 is the big primary kick-off for candidates in the democratic leadership race where about one-third of delegates are decided. With Buttigieg dropping out Sunday night (and Steyer on Saturday), it appears that the motivation was to help Biden on Super Tuesday. DJT
I’ve read several research reports in the past weeks about the COVID-19 impact on supply chains and the human toll. We are all guessing—educated guesses, but guesses nonetheless. We learn a valuable lesson from Nate Silver’s book The Signal and the Noise about prediction of
Activist investing often sees large pools of money taking major stakes in companies and seeks to get representation on boards to effect change in the C-Suite. A new type of activist investing is really gaining momentum in the ETF world and that is the environmental,