Facebook Inc FB COO Sheryl Sandberg gave the commencement speech at the University of California, Berkeley over the weekend, but she didn’t talk about Facebook or business or careers at all. Instead, she chose to focus on how the death of her husband impacted her life and how overcoming adversity is an important part of…
With every passing day, e-commerce retailers like Amazon.com, Inc.(AMZN) put more and more pressure on brick-and-mortar retailers. In fact, the competition is so heated that Sears (SHLD), Office Depot(ODP) and Childrens Place (PLCE) are all closing a large number of stores in an attempt to stay in business.
A Quora user recently asked why Tesla Motors Inc TSLA and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been so successful in advancing his ambitious goals so quickly, when a number of market competitors have shared similar or identical goals. The question prompted a wide range of responses.
Last Friday, Ford Motor Company F CEO Mark Fields met with Wall Street analysts in New York to discuss Ford’s business and stock. Deutsche Bank analyst Rod Lache noted six bullish takeaways from Fields’ message:
BTIG analyst Joel Fishbein recently addressed a major elephant in the room for online advertisers like Alphabet Inc GOOG GOOGL and Facebook Inc FB: ad-blocking software. So far, the rise of Internet advertising has been meteoric, but could ad-blockers derail the train?
Any experienced trader knows that psychology plays a major role in the stock market. Human beings may have the most developed brains of any species on the planet, but our thought processes and judgments are far from perfect.
U.S. retail sales posted a 1.3 percent gain in April, their largest leap in more than a year. But, do the latest retail numbers mean that fear of a U.S. recession and/or a major stock market pullback is no longer in play?
Sugary drinks are not only bad for your health, they may also be bad for your investment portfolio. CLSA analyst Brian Doyle recently spoke with endocrinology and obesity expert Dr. Robert Lustig about the food industry’s long-term impact on the health of consumers. Dr. Lustig, who is a professor at UC San Francisco, told CLSA…
Market efficiency theory has claimed another high-profile victim. According to research by the Wharton School’s Jonathan Hartley and Matthew Olson, CNBC personality and “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer has underperformed the S&P 500 with his stock picks over the past 15 years.
The re-balancing of the global oil market has been a volatile and unpredictable process, and Goldman Sachs analyst Damien Courvalin believes the market still has a long way to go. According to Courvalin, Goldman is now anticipating a more gradual decline in inventories in the second half of 2016 before the oil market transitions back…