On April 9, 2020, the Department of Labor released new unemployment insurance weekly claims for the previous week to be 6.6 million. More than 16 million people have lost their jobs so far, and if we compare this to the…
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My Thoughts On The Current Stock Market Condition
The bears have taken over the stock market, and the market volatility has spiked up due to financial and economical uncertainty. For the past couple years, as a value investor, I have been sitting back and looking at the stock…
Is A Global Recession Inevitable?
The stock market has been very volatile this past week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 10% on Thursday (3/12/2020) due to fears of coronavirus. This was the largest one day drop in US stock market since Black Monday of…
Current Market And Economic Conditions Across The World
Investors pay close attention to how their individual stocks are doing. While it is important to scrutinize your individual investments, it is also crucial to pay attention to global economic conditions. Globalization is a boon and bane at the same…
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What Value Investing Has Taught Me
I started by "investing" career by trading penny stocks, then learned the ropes to technical analysis. In college, I used technical analysis to trade forex and write code that would execute trades on my behalf when it noticed certain technical…
The Board Of Directors’ Role During Mergers & Acquisitions
All of us probably know that the board of directors has the power to hire or fire the CEO. However, we might not be too sure of other roles that the board plays in the business. I was recently reading…
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The Little Book Of Common Sense Investing – Book Of The Month
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns by John Bogle is a great introductory book that helps develop the correct mindset about investing. The book outlines how to…
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3 Stocks To Buy During The Next Stock Market Correction
The stock market has been all over the place lately. With the volatility seen in the stock market, it appears that the bears are gaining strength. This aging bull market might get a correction in the near future. This is…
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The Most Important Thing In A Proxy Statement
A proxy statement, filed with the the US Secretary and Exchange Commission (SEC) as Form DEF 14A, is a statement required of a company when soliciting shareholder votes. The proxy statement covers a wide range of topics such as executive…
Investing In Medtronic (MDT)
I was recently reading about the Micra pacemaker, which is one of the many medical devices manufactured by Medtronic. Micra is one-tenth the size of its competing models, and attached directly to the heart. This means there are no wire…
Slowdown In The Indian Economy
India is Asia's third largest economy. India has had an amazing growth in the past few years, however in 2019, it has experienced slowdown in its manufacturing and construction sectors. On November 7, 2019, Moody's downgraded India's outlook from "stable"…
Onward: How Starbucks Fought For Its Life Without Losing Its Soul – Book Of The Month
Almost everyone has been a customer at Starbucks, but not everyone knows the story behind the rise, downfall, and rescue that went into creating the brand that Starbucks is today. Howard Schultz talks about the successes and failures that Starbucks…
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The World Of Negative Interest Rates
The US Federal Reserve cut interest rates on July 31, 2019. This was the first rate cut since the 2007-08 financial crisis. In the latter part of 2019, with inflation at bay, the Federal Reserve has changed its stance from…
Asset Backed US Corporate Bond Investment
As volatility returns in the US stock market, investors become risk averse and seek safer investments such as bonds. Since most of the developed countries in the world, including Japan and many European countries, offer negative interest rates, investors have…
Dividends and Buybacks
There are two ways in which a company can return capital to its shareholders i.e. either by paying dividends or by buying back its shares. As an investor, it is important for you to know how you are going to…
How To Find The Value Of Stocks?
The market has been pretty volatile recently, with optimistic buying coupled with fear induced selling. Mr. Market has been highly unpredictable, and it is times like these when value investors sit back and watch the action unfold. Value investors know…
Trade War, Federal Reserve, China, Interest Rates, Currencies, And More
There has been a lot of action in the stock and the bond market recently. In this week's blog post, I will talk about my take on the current events. Let me briefly go over these current events: United States…
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Will China Sell its US Treasury Holdings?
Towards the end of the trading day on Friday, May 17th 2019, there was breaking news that trade talks between the United States and China had stalled. This news led to a market sell-off in the last hour of trading.…
100 Baggers – Book of the Month
This past month, I listened to 3 audiobooks, and I found 2 of them to be very informative: "The Book on Rental Property Investing" by Brandon Turner and "100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-To-1 And How To Find Them" by…
Billionaire Ray Dalio’s All Weather Portfolio
I first learned about the "All Weather Portfolio" when I was reading Tony Robbins' book - MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom. In this book, Robbins introduced everyone to Ray Dalio, the billionaire hedge fund manager,…
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