A recent study by Morgan Stanley sheds some light on the prices consumers pay for groceries at several major store chains. The study compared the cost of 100 commonly-purchased food items at different stores, focusing on organic/natural food sellers: The Kroger Co KR 1.61%, Whole Foods Market, Inc. WFM 0.41%, The Fresh Market Inc TFM 1.85% and Sprouts Farmers Market Inc SFM…
Morgan Stanley released its economic outlook for 2015 this week, and it’s an optimistic one. Spending Growth The foundation of much of the expected improvement to the economy is a stronger consumer. Morgan Stanley expects a 2.8 percent growth in real consumer spending next year, making 2015 the strongest year for the consumer since 2006. Morgan…
There’s no question that 2014 has been a disappointing year for World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. WWE 1.79% and its shareholders. After first going public in 1999 at $17 per share, WWE stock has drifted mostly sideways for the next 14 years while the S&P 500 has gained more than 60 percent. All that seemed to be changing in the…
After a rough 2014, analysts at Deutsche Bank believe that now is the time to buy battered Macau gaming stocks. A recent research report laid out the bank’s case for Macau.
I posted a piece earlier today on Trading Common Sense that I wrote for Benzinga explaining binary options. Because Benzinga wants their writers to remain neutral, I explained what binary options are, how they work, and the pros and cons of trading them. I then punctuated the vanilla discussion with the following benign statement: “As is…
Options trading has become extremely popular among retail stock traders over the past decade. One new, controversial cousin of the traditional stock option contract has gotten a lot of attention in the past couple of years: binary options. What Is A Binary Option? Like a traditional stock option contract, a typical binary option contract is a bet…
Many new stock traders lose confidence and money when they first start trading on their own. By sidestepping common mistakes, new investors can avoid learning these lessons the hard way.
With the S&P 500 making new all-time highs on a weekly basis, many investors are starting to get nervous about stock prices. While no portfolio is entirely risk-free, there are several ways that every investor can keep risk in check. Here are four common ways to manage the risk in your portfolio.
On Monday, Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG ) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) launched the beta version of subscription music service Music Key. How will this project fare against competitors such as Spotify and Pandora, and will users actually pay for YouTube content that has been free in the past?
There was a time when a merger between Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) and AOL, Inc. (NYSE: AOL) would have inspired antitrust whispers. The days when these two companies dominated the web are long gone, but could a merger between the two be the best path forward? Activist hedge fund Starboard Value LP believes so, and it has been pushing the two companies to…