News

3 Value Stocks Skating on Thin Ice

The low valuation multiples for value stocks provide a margin of safety that growth stocks rarely offer. However, the challenge lies in determining whether these cheap assets are genuinely undervalued or simply on sale due to their potentially deteriorating business models.

2 Industrials Stocks on Our Watchlist and 1 to Brush Off

Whether you see them or not, industrials businesses play a crucial part in our daily activities. Unfortunately, this role also comes with a demand profile tethered to the ebbs and flows of the broader economy, and investors seem to be forecasting a downturn - over the past six months, the industry has pulled back by 5.4%. This drawdown was disheartening since the S&P 500 held its ground.

Fed's Kugler: Uptick in goods inflation 'unhelpful'

The recent surge in inflation expectations reflected in surveys of American consumers also warrants close attention, Kugler said in remarks prepared for a U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce event in Washington. Based on readings of the Consumer Price Index and Producer Price Index released earlier this month, Kugler said it is estimated that the Personal Consumption Expenditures price index the Fed uses to guide its 2% target climbed at a 2.5% pace year-over-year in February, the same as in January.