Even in today’s economic environment, coming up with topics daily can be a challenge. So, when a reader asks a question, I am more than happy to answer it in…
…the S&P 500 by a wide margin. Cramer also founded a company called TheStreet.com (ticker symbol: TST) that provides market news and analyses and also sells newsletters to the general…
…as they are colloquially known, buy whole companies or properties or make direct loans to companies. When they buy companies or properties, the private fund managers can change management, business…
…less than 0.10 percent thanks to price wars among issuing companies. The silly ETFs are simply a byproduct of innovation and competition. It’s impossible to compete with Vanguard or iShares…
…file a complaint, bad deeds are likely to go unpunished. A lot of complaints are settled privately without any regulatory authorities and when a firm settles with an aggrieved client,…
Twice per year, Standard & Poor’s issues a report that compares the performance of actively managed mutual funds to corresponding S&P indexes. The most recent report, the S&P Indexes Versus…
…since at this point 81 percent of the companies that have reported have beaten expectations. At this point, the blended earnings rate is -4.6 percent. The themes surrounding the current…
…months compared to the previous ten years. It does the same thing with unemployment and the Purchasing Managers Index, which is a common proxy for economic growth. The model scores…
…commercial real estate since the barrier to entry for a diversified portfolio of actual commercial property is very high – and relatively illiquid, especially compared to REITs, which are highly…
…the brand, but the company that defaulted), and General Electric was too complicated and weird. In any case, all three of them are storied American brands that once represented the…
