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The first few weeks of May have revealed that uncertainty still holds sway over the broad market. Despite a solid earnings season that saw about 76 percent of companies exceeding analyst expectations, according to research from Factset, and the S&P 500 index marking its first new high since...

Volatility is back. After a relatively quiet April, the market got a jolt earlier this month with the sudden escalation in trade war negotiations between the Trump administration and China. The added volatility has been a welcome sign for traders, but another thorn in the side of investors...

Stephen Mathai-Davis is the co-founder, chief investment officer and managing member of Quantamize, an investing research platform that utilizes AI and multi-factor models to generate investment ideas. We caught up with him to find out how the platform works, what makes their ideas unique, and...

With earnings season already underway, traders are starting to get a feel of how well companies fared over the first few months of 2019. Despite anxiety over whether this season’s revenue numbers would fall short of previous quarters, upbeat reports from Dow components Johnson & Johnson (...

Following a fairly volatile March that saw the Fed turn overtly dovish, it’s not unreasonable to suspect that many traders and investors are looking for ways to re-allocate their capital to enhance returns and diversify their exposure across the equity market for the quarters ahead. One...

Among the many asset rallies that have taken place over the first quarter of 2019, the area with the most persistent staying power continues to be the steadily rising energy markets, particularly crude oil. After collapsing below 52-week lows, oil futures have rebounded substantially through the...

The rapid influx and equally hasty exodus of massive amounts of capital to and from cryptocurrencies have left the market with whiplash. Thanks to the precipitous drop from the December 2017 highs, many retail traders now find themselves stymied as to how to approach the still nascent asset class....

Due to uncertainty surrounding global trading conditions and the surging performance of equity investments through the first few months of 2019, traders have struggled to find a compelling upside in the commodity markets this year. However, March may mark a turning point in the near-term prospects...

With recent economic data regarding manufacturing and consumer spending creating ripples in the market, many investors have likely spent the past couple of weeks re-evaluating which areas of the market they should potentially rotate money toward. Whenever this kind of portfolio soul-searching...

Forget the ides of March, the first few days of the month are already proving eventful enough for the stock market. After the S&P 500 posted a healthy jump on March 1 to reach a new year-to-date high, the worm turned quickly the following Monday. Not only did the S&P 500 give up the...

Everybody has been talking about the start to the year that U.S. equities have had, and for good reason. January saw the asset class’ strongest monthly performance in more than five years. But if we’re going to talk about strong areas of the market, we need to start with emerging...

After undergoing a baptism by fire in the waning months of 2018, the technology sector has lost some of its luster in 2019. Although the Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSE: XLK) is up 12 percent year-to-date (outperforming the S&P 500 by two percentage points), it’s no longer the...

So far, 2019’s market trends have been pretty generalized. After a volatile December, an intensely bullish January lifted equities across the board. But while the S&P 500 is up 9.5 percent year-to-date due to the strength of U.S. large-cap stocks, it’s actually the Russell 2000 and...

What factors do you consider when selecting stocks for your portfolio? Financial ratios are a popular choice, as are moving averages and insider activity. Maybe it’s a combination of some or all of these factors, or possibly something else entirely. There are, after all, countless ways to...