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Big Pharma’s Big Gains
By Tim Knight
Given enough time, stock in pharmaceutical giants has yielded life-altering gains
Many investors will look back upon 2022 as a disaster.
It was the worst market for bonds in over a century, and even the largest and best-known tech stocks lost about one-third of their value—with a few losing virtually all their market cap. Value plunged for cryptocurrencies, stocks in social media companies and yield-sensitive exchange-traded funds.
Yet “big pharma” remained a relatively safe haven and continued to produce life-changing profits for long-term holders. Plus, there’s no indication the bonanza will end anytime soon.
The United States healthcare system is famously expensive, and much of the revenue flows into the coffers of...
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Disruptive Streamers
By Tim Knight
|Active investors who relish change can find it in these media and entertainment stocks -
Artificial Intelligence Reveals Itself
By Tim Knight
|Readers who’ve immersed themselves in recent news stories about ChatGPT may guess the end of this article. Others might not. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly growing field, and several… -
Three Stocks Coming Up Short
By Tim Knight
|Stocks are decoupling, and this troika of equities appears to be headed lower Of the many changes that shook the stock market in 2022, perhaps the biggest was that it… -
What Lies Ahead for Stocks
By Tim Knight
|This column’s predictions for stock prices in 2022 have proven painfully correct. Now, the Technician is watching crypto for signals on how equities will perform in 2023. The S&P 500… -
Markets and Midterm Elections
By Tim Knight
|Stock prices used to surge after off-year voting, but the Fed’s adjustments to the economy may have changed that A lot of investors are convinced that a four-year U.S. presidential… -
Technical Analysis Makes the Grade
By Tim Knight
|Are you inclined to question the merits of technical stock analysis? Then consider this history lesson. Early in 2021, Luckbox examined the charts of public companies in the education sector… -
Cramer’s Comeuppance
By Tim Knight
|A famous stock picker got almost everything wrong with a set of predictions Nearly two years ago, stock prognosticator Jim Cramer created a seminal video called The Magnificent Seven to… -
Sunshine Securities
By Tim Knight
|Only 0.014% of the solar energy reaching Earth is converted into usable power. That leaves plenty of room for improvement, and companies are rushing to meet the challenge. Let’s examine… -
3D Printing: A Hype Cycle Case Study
By Tim Knight
|The public’s interest in 3D printers has waned because the devices failed to live up to the hype. What can that teach us about trading technology trends? Whatever happened to… -
Boom or Bust—What’s Next for Retailing?
By Tim Knight
|Over the years, some retailing-sector equities have posted staggering gains Circumstances—like inflation or the fickle tastes of consumers—can whip valuations of retailers up or down by thousands of percentage points… -
Dark Days Ahead?
By Tim Knight
|Technical analysis of stock prices indicates the markets’ “everything bubble” may burst in 2022 Unhelpful pundits often make technical analysis seem terribly complicated. But the basic tenets of good charting… -
Title Fight
By Tim Knight
|Only a handful of companies dominate the real estate title insurance industry. They will need to evolve quickly to retain their reign in front of a fast-moving blockchain. Almost everyone… -
Crypto Charts Really Well—Here’s What They Say
By Tim Knight
|Traders have been charting the financial markets for hundreds of years, and by the late 1930s Robert D. Edwards and John McGee established modern methods of analyzing historical price data.… -
Cryptocurrencies: Gambling or Investing?
By Tim Knight
|Most people can’t help wanting to parlay a small investment into a windfall. So they buy real estate, procure precious metals, execute options trades or bet on horse races. At… -
The Changing Course of Amazon
By Tim Knight
|The world of investing is fraught with uncertainty and disagreement, but one fact remains indisputable: Over the past 100 years, stocks in the United States have generally gone up in… -
SPACtacular Growth, Mixed Returns
By Tim Knight
|The “blank check” companies known these days as SPACs, or special-purpose acquisition companies, have enjoyed an astonishing burst of popularity. Check out their growth below, as recorded by spacresearch.com. In… -
Failure to Launch
By Tim Knight
|It’s no secret that equity investors are always on the lookout for the “next big thing.” In years past, they’ve become fascinated with cannabis stocks, 3-D printing and the gig… -
Seven Smart Stocks
By Tim Knight
|Is Luckbox focuses on the measure of intelligence, let’s turn our attention toward the sector of the equity markets dedicated to education companies. Most well-known institutions of higher learning, such… -
2021 Portends Some Trends to End
By Tim Knight
|The markets—and the Federal Reserve’s efforts to move them—have been in persistently unprecedented territory for more than a dozen years. Looking forward to the new year, there’s no doubt the… -
The Stock Market is Apolitical
By Tim Knight
|A casual observer might assume that who wins or loses the presidency would have a profound effect on both the economy and the stock market, but that’s not the case. History…