Monthly Archives: August 2017

In the news this week, Chipotle is still having a tough time recovering from blows to its reputation caused by food-bourn illness back in 2015. One indicator that Chipotle is doing badly is that it has had to expend exorbitant amounts of money in order to try to regain market share from competing restaurant chains, making […]

Anyone who lived through the late 90s knows there was a dot com bubble, and that it left many people in a lurch.. Same with the housing bubble that led up to the 2008 financial crisis. But what actually constitutes an economic bubble specifically?   A bubble is a type of economic cycle: it features […]

One measure frequently used to to describe behavior of a stock is volatility. Volatility indicates the dispersion of returns for a particular security, usually in relation to returns from the same security or a broader market index. In simpler terms, volatility expresses how much risk or uncertainty is associated with a stock’s value. The higher […]

The Dow, or the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), is the most watched stock index on the planet. It is a price-weighted average  tabulated from 30 high profile stocks traded on the NYSE and NASDAQ, including those of the world’s most influential companies. The Dow is such an important measure of market performance that both […]