The explosive growth of online retailing has had a devastating impact on traditional brick-and-mortar retailers. The tremendous success of online giants like Amazon(AMZN) have led to the death of many a retailer. Today the market cap of Amazon is over $920.0 billion while many of the former retail giants are fighting for survival. Some former …
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The railroad industry is one of the most important pillars of the US economy. Despite the growth of trucking companies since the birth of the interstate system and the arrival of express delivery with aeroplanes, railroads dominate the shipping industry. Much of the nations goods still move by rail than by other means of transportation …
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Some of the auto parts makers have suffered substantial declines in the past few months. Fears over trade wars have hurt European auto parts manufacturers especially hard. Listed below are 6 companies from this industry to consider for further research: 1.Company: Autoliv Inc (ALV) Decline from 52-Week High: -47% 2.Company: Continental AG (CTTAY) Decline from 52-Week …
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I have written many times before about the power of compounding. For example, even when dividend yields are small at say 2% reinvesting any dividends received over many years will multiple the yield many times over with compounding. I came across the a thoughtful piece on the magic of compounding by Richard C. Young at Young …
Market Timing can be very dangerous to an investor in terms of losing out on potential returns. I have written many articles before on the cons of market timing. Over and over again this concept has been proven wrong. For example in December 2018 US equity markets fell dramatically wiping out most of the gains …