Opinion

For over 30 years before the COVID-19 pandemic, investors thrived during what is often referred to as the Great Moderation. Despite a painful episode with the Great Recession, this period saw relatively stable economic conditions, with fewer recessions, lower inflation, and diminished volatility....

Predicting the actions of an incoming administration is always tricky, and that's doubly true for someone with a penchant for saber rattling like Donald Trump. While Trump seems committed to another round of tariffs (especially aimed at Chinese imports), the actual size and scope of these moves...

Last week was the 13F filings deadline at the SEC. All stripes of money managers, from freshly minted mutual fund managers to hedge fund pros and patrician blue blood family offices, must send the Securities and Exchange Commission a list of every stock they owned at the end of the third quarter. A...

Expert trader Anne-Marie Bainynd uses Benzinga Pro to get exclusive breaking news alerts and stock screeners that help her find trade setups like Airbnb today. Airbnb (NASDAQ:ABNB) is sitting in a wide range into its next earnings cycle in February and it seems reasonable that the price action...

The United States has dominated the global market for years now. Since COVID, US markets against the world has looked like last weekend’s Detroit Lions versus Jacksonville Jaguars game. It was not just a win. It was a beating of epic proportions. The United States has gotten almost everything...

Investors seem to be throwing in the towel on China very quickly. However, their market has not really fallen back as much as it seems over the past few weeks. Also, we have to think about what it will mean to President Xi ‘s standing on the global stage if he does not come through with a...

It should not be surprising that the new administration will be more friendly to the oil and gas business than the outgoing crowd. On several occasions, the Biden administration was openly hostile toward oil and gas and promised to end the industry and develop 100% alternative energy supplies. The...

The U.S. Federal Reserve is on a chopping spree this autumn, cutting its benchmark Federal Funds rate by 0.50% in September and lopping off another 0.25% in early November. The moves brought the Fed Funds rate down to a target range of 4.50% to 4.75%. The Fed's Open Markets Committee meets again on...

The dust is beginning to settle from the 2024 election, and companies are starting to digest what a second Trump term means for business. On the campaign trail, Candidate Trump promised another round of tariffs on foreign goods, but it remains to be seen what promises actually translate into law...

Cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks (PANW) reports next week and with a wide range of stock moves possible for after, let's consider setting up a double butterfly formation. This kind of trade will allow us to profit from the stock moving in either direction. Let me show you. Trade structure...

The last decade has been pretty good for the stock market. With the exception of the quickly corrected COVID sell-off, the market has moved pretty much in a straight path higher. Technological innovations and Federal Reserve policy that was overly friendly have helped drive annual gains of over 13...

Given the action in Bitcoin since the election, one would think that the President-elect's number one issue during the campaign was his positive stance on the cryptocurrency asset class! Of course, this was not the case, but the fact that the cryptocurrency was able to push above its all-time highs...