Animal Spirits: The Emergency Rate Cut

This week’s Animal Spirits with Michael & Ben is supported by YCharts: Mention Animal Spirits and receive 20% off your subscription price when you initially sign up for the service. We discuss: What to make of the coronavirus and its potential impact The stock market sell-off The wild move in interest rates Is a recession the base case…

Talk Your Book: Investing in Commodities

Today’s Animal Spirits: Talk Your Book is presented by USCF Investments: We sat down with Geert Rouwnhorst of the Yale School of Management and John Love of USCF Investments to talk about all things commodities. We discuss: The difference between commodities futures and the prices you see in the media Why it’s impossible to track…

What Happens to Stocks After a Big Down Month?

Stocks just had one of their worst months on record with the S&P falling 8.2% on a total return basis.1 These are the worst monthly declines on the S&P going back to 1926: You can see plenty of these massive down months have occurred in and around some of the worst market crashes in history…

5 Companies Make up 18% of the S&P 500. Should Investors Care?

Investors have an endless supply of things to worry about simply because we know more about the markets than previous generations of investors. The massive growth of technology stocks over the past decade or so gives many investors pause about how this impacts the market structure. In this piece I wrote for Fortune I look…

Talk Your Book: Small & Mid Cap Growth Stock Investing

Today’s Animal Spirits: Talk Your Book is presented by Conestoga Capital Advisors: We discuss: Why are small and mid-cap growth stocks so overlooked? The importance of quality when looking for smaller growth stocks The difference between small and large public companies How to pick stocks from a universe fo 2,500 companies More important: sticking to…