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It started out like any small fire. Then it spread.

Time is running out on 2019.

Looking back, Q4 of 2018 was a rough ride for equity investors. Wise to book profits before year-end this time around?

Perhaps, but don’t be too hasty hitting the sell button. There are a host of reasons why the S&P 500 will likely see better performance in this year’s fourth quarter.

Lawyers are loving Johnson & Johnson (J&J) in 2019. Investors… not so much.

J&J shares have lagged amid mounting legal woes. The health care giant faces over 100,000 lawsuits in total, which some analysts estimate may cost over $20 billion to settle.

In the asset management space, discount brokers play a middleman role. They link consumers to exchanges where transactions are completed.

Here’s a look at how three major brokerage stocks have performed over the last five years compared to three major exchanges.

Bravado can be an asset in certain domains.

For example, President Trump is known for being bold. That probably aided his ascent as a real estate developer. And as President, Mr. Trump is all about projecting confidence, as the following video montage demonstrates.

The active versus passive investing debate is relentless. If you do a simple cost/benefit analysis, advocates of passive investing have compelling facts on their side.

In a headline driven, volatile market like we’ve been traversing, it’s easy for investors to try to overcorrect their positioning. I’m referring to the whole “risk on, risk off” mentality.

A casual market observer probably sees a binary narrative. It seems like everything rides on a U.S./China trade deal.   

After Howard Schultz resigned as Starbucks' CEO last June, I profiled the company's investment merits in a post. "It's coffee almost never goes on sale, but the stock is now," I wrote.

If you want to know if we're still in a bull market, don't ask Alexa. Just watch Amazon's stock price.

Amazon shares closed on September 4, 2018 at 2,039. Almost a year later, that remains the all-time high.

Markets cheered when the Trump Administration announced on Tuesday it would delay new tariffs on certain consumer products. Optimism quickly evaporated on Wednesday, though, after a spate of weak economic data stoked fears of a global economic slowdown.