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Which Stock Market Sector is Ready for a Fall?

Sometimes you look at the market and just shake your head. Trends that should be taking place aren’t, a stock market sector that should be growing isn’t. As you look at the sectors of the S&P 500, one stock market sector sticks out as getting ahead of itself. While...

Q2 Earnings Continue Torrid Pace

I can’t believe it is already earnings season. It seems like I was just writing the Q1 wrap. That quarter was a blockbuster - with increasing earnings, solid corporate guidance, and estimate increases. You almost could not write a better story for earnings. This...

Coke or Pepsi: Which Stock is better?

Back in the 80’s, these two large caps (Coke stock and Pepsi stock) were core holding for virtually everyone. At that point, the answer would have been both stocks are great! Warren Buffet was beginning to ride the long-term ride upwards with Coke. It was touted as...

What do Share Buybacks have to do with Earnings Per Share?

When the recent Tax Reform came out at the end of last year, pundits predicted that companies would put tax savings towards share buybacks. These companies would repatriate money that had been stowed overseas to shelter them from the higher U.S. tax rates. Once back...

Marc Chaikin Assesses the Future of the Current Bull Market and More on the Money Life Podcast with Chuck Jaffe [VIDEO]

How much longer will this historically long bull market continue? Should investors be worried about a bear market around the corner? That’s what Marc Chaikin, CEO and Founder of Chaikin Analytics, covered on Friday’s Money Life Podcast with Chuck Jaffe. Listen below...

Earnings Season—The Big Picture

Sometimes you read the earnings season press or the reports released by Wall Street Research Departments and you quickly lose the forest for the trees. They are so dense with statistics and numbers that you miss that there is a sizeable trend underway. So I am...

Marc Chaikin Rang the NASDAQ Opening Bell This Week! Here’s a Quick Recap

On Monday morning, the CEO & Founder of Chaikin Analytics, Marc Chaikin, and the CEO of New York Life Investment Management, Yie-Hsin Hung, rang the NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell. They were accompanied by several key members of the IndexIQ team including Jon...

Watch Sandy Chaikin Share Her Investing Journey at Benzinga’s First-Ever Women’s Wealth Forum [Video]

Last month, Sandy Chaikin, Co-Founder of Chaikin Analytics, was named honorary chairwoman of Benzinga’s first-ever Women’s Wealth Forum in Boston, Massachusetts on March 21, 2018. The event aimed to bring together some of the most powerful women in finance and...

How to Pick a Real Estate ETF

You have decided to take the plunge into a Real Estate ETF! You know that this asset class would help you diversify your portfolio, and add some interesting performance characteristics. You also know that Real Estate has underperformed recently. So there could be...

How Our Market Strategist Used Chaikin Analytics to Find Philip Morris (PM) Before a Huge 16% Drop

Dan Russo, Chaikin Analytics’ new Market Strategist struck gold with a stock pick on Monday 4/16, and passed it on to Chaikin Analytics members. This was published in the Market Insights daily newsletter, Morning Insights, on Monday, April 16th. Here’s what...