SoftBank shares jump; earnings are due from PepsiCo and Delta Air Lines among others this morning ...

Listen and subscribe to Opening Bid Unfiltered on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you find your favorite podcasts. While Warren Buffett said, “our favorite holding period is forever,” occasional investor skittishness is nothing new. Yet has it gone to extremes? Despite solid stock market performance this year, “I think that we’re in a period where people are not sure about capitalism,” "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer told Yahoo Finance's Brian Sozzi on a new episode of the Opening ...

Jim Wyckoff has spent over 25 years involved with the stock, financial and commodity markets. He was a financial journalist with the FWN newswire service for many years, including stints as a reporter on the rough-and-tumble commodity futures trading floors in Chicago and New York. As a journalist, he has covered every futures market traded in the U.S., at one time or another. Jim is the proprietor of the "Jim Wyckoff on the Markets" analytical, educational and trading advisory service. Jim also worked as a ...

The U.S. stock market seems unstoppable right now, and options traders are betting that the good times will keep on rolling. ...

Jim Wyckoff has spent over 25 years involved with the stock, financial and commodity markets. He was a financial journalist with the FWN newswire service for many years, including stints as a reporter on the rough-and-tumble commodity futures trading floors in Chicago and New York. As a journalist, he has covered every futures market traded in the U.S., at one time or another. Jim is the proprietor of the "Jim Wyckoff on the Markets" analytical, educational and trading advisory service. Jim also worked as a ...

Jim Wyckoff has spent over 25 years involved with the stock, financial and commodity markets. He was a financial journalist with the FWN newswire service for many years, including stints as a reporter on the rough-and-tumble commodity futures trading floors in Chicago and New York. As a journalist, he has covered every futures market traded in the U.S., at one time or another. Jim is the proprietor of the "Jim Wyckoff on the Markets" analytical, educational and trading advisory service. Jim also worked as a ...

For decades, the 60/40 portfolio was the epitome of the balanced portfolio. The allocation of 60% stocks and 40% bonds has traditionally been seen as an all-weather portfolio, with the volatility of stocks balanced by the more conservative, defensive nature of bonds. And, historically speaking, this has generally been the case. According to Emelia Fredlick, a senior editor for Morningstar, there has been only one time in the past 150 years that the 60/40 portfolio experienced more pain than the stock mark ...

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Jim Wyckoff has spent over 25 years involved with the stock, financial and commodity markets. He was a financial journalist with the FWN newswire service for many years, including stints as a reporter on the rough-and-tumble commodity futures trading floors in Chicago and New York. As a journalist, he has covered every futures market traded in the U.S., at one time or another. Jim is the proprietor of the "Jim Wyckoff on the Markets" analytical, educational and trading advisory service. Jim also worked as a ...

Dot-com era parallels are worth studying as the stock market powers higher. ...