Category: Markets

  • Valuing Investments: Price-Earnings Ratio

    Investors weighing whether to buy, sell or hold stocks can use the price-earnings ratio to put an objective value on the investments. Dave Sandstrom explains in a MONEY TALK VIDEO that it’s a tool better used for the broader market than individual securities. He also says be sure what kind of P/E you’re using. […]

  • Focus on fundamentals to face volatility

    Earnings and interest rates drive stocks in the long run, Steve Giles says, and investors should on those fundamentals, especially when markets are volatile, as they have been to begin 2016. Steve explains more in a MONEY TALK VIDEO. […]

  • Watch bonds as rates rise

    As the Federal Reserve gets closer to eventually raising interest rates, Steve Giles says investors should keep an eye on the durations of their bond holdings. Steve explains how rising rates affect bonds in a MONEY TALK VIDEO. […]

  • This bull has legs

    By Bob Landaas April marks the fourth anniversary of the latest bull market. Those who aren’t bullish might feel sheepish to learn that the average bull market since World War II has been a little longer than four years. But bull markets don’t die of old age. They typically die because of speculative frenzy. They…