Investor Essentials Daily

Last year was a bad year for the public markets. Major indexes took their biggest losses in years, both stocks and bonds fell for the first time since 1969, and some of the biggest gainers from the last bull market came crashing down....

In investing, having a brilliant idea or strategy is not the only thing you need to reach successful returns; timing is also vital to the process...

The semiconductor space continues to show how volatile it is. Semiconductor producers saw falling prices and surging inventory as the demand for technological products went down, which meant lower earnings and valuations...

Energy is a cyclical sector and its profitability is highly dependent on the prices of commodities like crude oil and natural gas...

The Federal Reserve has been actively increasing interest rates to combat inflation...

For years, China looked like it was coming for America’s title as the world’s dominant economy. It was growing faster, it had a much larger population, and it was quickly becoming the center of trade and production for many countries...

As the stock market did not satisfy investors and as most companies didn’t perform well last year in terms of profitability, we have started to see a resurgence of activism in the world of finance...

Most of the biotech and pharmaceutical companies have stayed unprofitable for so many years, making investors wonder if those really can make money...

Pharmaceuticals has always been a complex sector to understand. One usually needs to understand the science behind the products to be sure of an investment...

The markets have rallied to start the year. One reason seems to be that investors are getting comfortable with inflation. It looks like inflation peaked last summer, and it’s been falling ever since...

London-based Jupiter Asset Management’s GEAR Fund almost lost everything it had—its assets had fallen more than 90% from 2018 to late 2020....

A lot of industries have been impacted by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but the energy and agricultural space has seen the biggest effect....

Before the pandemic hit our lives in 2020, the way we worked and how we spent our time and money were much different than what we are used to now....

The U.S. is finally improving its supply chains and infrastructure. Investments into this space have been ignored for the past 10 years, but now, the Supply Chain Super Cycle is coming....

There seems to be a disconnect between the unemployment rate and what’s going on in the rest of the economy. People are trying to figure out how to reconcile the increasingly tenuous economic outlook with historically strong employment....

There are lots of wealthy, or highly successful people in the world of the investment industry. But it’s extremely difficult to find someone else so iconic as Steve A. Cohen...

The first thing we had to do because of the pandemic was figure out how to live from home. That includes working remotely...

Technology companies had a difficult time last year due to geopolitical risks, supply chain issues, and inflation...

We are finally improving our supply chains, and various companies, from industrials to technology, are contributing to it...

Last year has been tough for many investors and hedge funds. Most of them even performed worse than the market...