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Cybersecurity Market Surge: Investor Response to SolarWinds Hack
As more details about the hack of IT company SolarWinds continue to emerge by the day, it’s becoming clearer that the full scope of the attack, purported to be by Russia, may not be known for some
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2021 Economic Outlook: Insights from Dr. Mark Schug
Economist Mark Schug, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, joined Lightspeed last month to present a live webinar recapping 2020’s unprecedented fiscal year and its e
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2020 Investment Returns: Analyzing Annualized Rates of Return
By: Montana Timpson As the 2020 fiscal year draws to a close, annual rates of return hit professional traders’ radars as they seek to distinguish years’ top performers. For investors with diverse por
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2021 Annual Earnings Reports: What Investors Need to Know
With the dawn of 2021 upon us, stakeholders and the public alike prepare for a wave of last year’s highly anticipated annual earnings reports. Though there are many exceptions, a large majority of
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Navigating IPOs: Understanding Quiet Periods & Lockup Expirations
Whether you want to call it “The Year Of The Unicorn,” “The Year Of The Unicorn Reckoning,” or something else, 2019 may well go down as a milestone year in the IPO record books. And not so much for
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Beyond Revenue & EPS: 4 Key Earnings Report Metrics Investors Should Track
We’re in the heart of the final earnings season of 2019, with names like Alphabet, Facebook, Apple, Alibaba, and Exxon Mobil all giving investors a peek into their third quarter performances this w
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Streaming Wars 2.0: What's Next for Netflix, Roku & the Streaming Industry
If the streaming wars have existed for several years, then it’s fair to say that the next two weeks will mark a turning point. Call it “Streaming Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Giants.” The streami
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Top-Performing Homebuilder ETFs: Unexpected Leaders in 2019
The best-performing non-leveraged equity ETF through the first 10 months of 2019 was not a tech ETF, despite the fact that technology has been the top sector this year. It was not an ETF for an em
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Solar Stocks: A Cooling Market After a Strong 2019?
For most of 2019, solar was the best-performing industry in U.S. equities. As recently as August, nearly every stock in the Invesco Solar ETF (TAN)—the largest solar ETF by assets—was up double dig
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S&P 500 Q3 Earnings Review: Key Insights & Surprises
We’re just about through the end of the third quarter earnings season, with approximately 92% of the S&P 500 having reported as of Nov. 15. For the index as a whole, corporate earnings for the
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Understanding the Alternative Uptick Rule (Short Sale Restrictions)
Following the Financial Crisis, Congress put into place many new rules that they hoped would prevent another near collapse of the global financial system. One such rule, the Alternative Uptick Rule
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2019 Stock Market Review: Key Trends & Headlines
At the end of June, we wrote about the five biggest catalysts facing the stock market in the second half of 2019. Well, it turns out we were half right. The top two items on that list—the trade war
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Understanding Inverted Exchanges: Impact on Trading & Liquidity
By: Spencer Israel In their role as market facilitators, exchanges are responsible for ensuring there is enough liquidity for buyers and sellers, and that the pair are matched up efficiently and fair
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Decoding the Market Open: A Guide to Daily Price Discovery
The stock market is unique compared to most other asset classes, in that it’s only open five days a week for 6.5 hours a day. During these large time blocks where the market is closed, sentim
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Understanding Market Auction Theory: A Comprehensive Introduction
What Is Market Auction Theory? Auction market theory is a framework popularized by J. Peter Steidlmayer in the 1980s to understand why a market moves the way it does. Put simply, it’s a way of inte
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Sympathy Trading Strategies for Earnings Season 2020
The first earnings season of 2020 is upon us, which means the market is gearing up for the first real period of sustained volatility in stocks of the year (war with Iran notwithstanding). Earnings
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Understanding Stock Reactions to Earnings Reports: 4 Key Factors
We’re officially into the Q4 2019 earnings season. Over the next 4-6 weeks, the vast majority of publicly traded companies in the U.S. will disclose their financial results for the last quarter, cr
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ESG Investing: A Deep Dive into Environmental, Social, & Governance Standards
You could argue that ESG investing (the Wall Street acronym for the investing theme that emphasizes Environmental, Social, and Governance standards) has been mainstream for several years now—and yo
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Momentum Trading: 3 Essential Technical Analysis Tools
“The trend is your friend.” “Don’t fight the tape.” These aren’t just old Wall Street clichés. They’re also overly simplified descriptions of one of the most tried-and-true trading strategies: mo
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US Stock Market Resilience: Navigating Economic Uncertainty
By: Spencer Israel Save for a couple of hiccups, U.S. stocks have spent the vast majority of the last decade steadily marching higher. But you’d be forgiven for having questioned the strength of this
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Understanding the Current State of Cryptocurrency: Market Cap & TrendsMany or all of the products here are from our partners that pay us a commission. It’s how we make money. But our editorial integrity ensures our experts’ opi...
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Generic vs. Brand Name: Which Products Save You Money?With so many choices at the store, which items are the best to buy generic? Whats in a name? Apparently, less influence than ever — at least at the supermarket.Shoppers are increasingly opting f...
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Accelerated Dividends: Understanding Early Dividend PaymentsAn accelerated dividend is a dividend that is paid out ahead of a change in the way the dividends are treated, such as a change in the tax rateCapital Gains TaxCapital gains tax is a tax imposed on ca...
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Consumer Strategies to Combat Inflation: A Data-Driven AnalysisMany or all of the products here are from our partners that pay us a commission. It’s how we make money. But our editorial integrity ensures our experts’ opi...