Month: November 2020

The bulls on Wall Street are standing pat into one wildly uncertain presidential election outcome. …read more […]

Financial markets are growing increasingly concerned about the election… but for different reasons than you might think.
You can see this rising concern in the recent spike in the Volatility Index, known in the markets as the VIX. It’s a measure of market anxiety about the possibility of something unexpected happening in the future.
Essentially, when investors become uncertain about the future, the VIX rises.
Take a look at this chart, which shows the movement of the VIX in recent months…

The VIX has been rising since early October, and on Wednesday it pushed above 37, its highest level since early June.
Yet this rising …read more […]

Yahoo Finance’s Myles Udland, Brian Sozzi, and Julie Hyman break down Dr. Fauci’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic and why Trump may replace him after the election. …read more […]

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The electric vehicle industry has been one of the bright spots for investors in a torrid 2020, and now the sector could see another major boom and a new player moves onto the scene …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Crude advanced as Russian oil companies met with Energy Minister Alexander Novak to discuss the possibility of delaying an easing of OPEC+ output cuts by three months.Futures were 2.4% higher in New York, bouncing back from an abrupt plunge to a five-month low earlier in the session. The producer group, led by Russia and Saudi Arabia, was already considering postponing the supply increase planned for January as crude prices faltered amid renewed lockdown measures.Uneven global demand and a looming U.S. election is “creating overall uncertainty,” said Gary Cunningham, director of account management and research at Tradition Energy. Yet, …read more […]

Yahoo Finance’s Dan Howley joins the Yahoo Finance Live panel to discuss Apple announcing the ‘One More Thing’ event. …read more […]

Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) came out with its third-quarter results last week, and we wanted to see how the business is… …read more […]

Miller Value Partners recently released its Q3 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download here. The Opportunity Equity Fund posted a return of 13.01% for the quarter (net of fees), outperforming its benchmark, the S&P 500 Index which returned 8.93% in the same quarter. You should check out Miller Value Partners’ top […] …read more […]

Inside trading has a bad sound to it, but what is it really? Corporate insiders are company officers – the Presidents and VPs and Execs and Board members who run the world’s public – and private – companies. Their positions put them ‘in the know,’ and make them privy to the inner workings of their companies. Using that information to buy up stock would be underhanded, except for two points. First, they trade public shares openly. They don’t hide their transactions, and the investing public can see what they are doing – and read the hints given. And second, corporate …read more […]

Apple last month announced a range of new iPhones and also announced new Apple Watches and a services bundle in September. The company in June said it would introduce new Mac computers using its own processor chips, dubbed Apple Silicon, before the end of the year. The Apple Silicon Macs will mark the start of a transition away Intel Corp , Apple’s supplier for laptop and desktop processors since 2006. …read more […]

Put options are financial contracts that give the holder the right – but not the obligation – to sell an underlying stock or asset at a specified price (the strike price) within a certain time period. Generally, when an investor buys a put option, they think the price of the underlying stock will go down, and the option holder will make money as the price of the underlying stock decreases.
You can buy put options to speculate on stocks going down in value and to magnify your returns, or you can sell the options if you’re bullish and think the price …read more […]

Stephanie Kelly, Aberdeen political economist, joins Yahoo Finance’s Akiko Fujita and Zack Guzman to discuss the final push for voters from former Vice-President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump and the impact there could be on markets from the election. …read more […]