Ian Young has been involved in the financial markets for over a decade, having worked as a financial advisor for Morgan Stanley, and a later a commodities trader and analyst. Ian earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in American Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he got his start as a writer and editor for the Daily Bruin, transitioning to a content writer for Fox, and later earned an MBA from the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business.
Whether we are discovering the latest sports news on Twitter, posting about our weekends on...
Investors seemed disappointed with Zoom on Monday despite the fact that the pandemic-era...
Lockheed Martin and General Motors announced Wednesday that they will be partnering to create a...
Speculators and retail investors are furious after well-known retail brokerages restricted...
Financials are making big moves on Tuesday, helping to drive stock indexes to another day of...
Investors returned from a long holiday weekend to find stocks had continued the push from Friday,...
A plethora of industries are green today, as optimism over reopening the country seems to have...
A plethora of industries are green today, as optimism over reopening the country seems to have...
Crude oil prices are making an unprecedented drops this week, as the front month for crude...
With so many states having issued quarantine orders as the United States and globe struggle to...
Crude oil has continued its barreling downdraft as Saudi Arabia is not backing down from the oil...
While gold couldn’t avoid the turmoil that surrounded financial markets earlier this month,...
An ETF that tracks munis, the PIMCO Intermediate Municipal Bond Active (MUNI ), climbed 1.1%...
Crude oil prices tanked 10% on Monday as the rapid dissemination of coronavirus cases worldwide...
While stocks attempted a rally early on Friday, they quickly gave up their earlier gains as...
The CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX, closed at its highest level in history Monday when U.S. shares...
As the stock market, oil market, and gold market continue to be ravaged by the coronavirus...
With markets getting pummeled once again, in what is quickly becoming the most serious economic...
While gold prices plummeted roughly $80 as most asset classes are tanking after coronavirus panic...
With a rare historical event to start the week off, as futures markets were locked limit down in...
The lowest mortgage rates in years are causing a surge in mortgage refinances, with an incoming...
Oil prices rocketed on Tuesday following rumors that ongoing talks between OPEC and its allies,...
Gold prices scrambled above $1,700 on Monday, notching a seven-year high as stocks plummeted to...
In a rare historical event, futures markets were locked limit down in overnight trading on...
Last week, the Federal Reserve announced an emergency rate cut of 50 basis points in response to...
With stocks falling apart in their worst four-day performance since December 2018, now in...
Since bouncing off the key $50 level, crude oil futures posted their highest settlement in nearly...
Tesla is rocketing higher once again, up more than 8% on Wednesday to $930 per share, as stocks...
With the coronavirus contagion still continuing to spread, automakers like General Motors (GM)...
While U.S. stocks continue to charter record highs, the gold market has been languishing lately.
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (BBBY) is having a rough morning Wednesday, still down over 23% after...
While the next FOMC meeting isn’t until March, investors and analysts alike are still considering...
Tesla (TSLA) has been leading the Nasdaq to fresh highs, as the stock soared last week....
As the coronavirus death toll climbs ever higher, having crested more than 550 recently, with...
Despite an inflow of assets into gold over the last couple of days, as investors flee the stock...
A coronavirus, which is an illness that causes a type of pneumonia, was thought to have...
After reaching a Phase One trade deal recently, which sent markets to fresh highs, business...
One of the nation’s biggest retailers is changing things up in the management department, in the...
It’s been a tough first week for Boeing with its new CEO at the helm.
U.S. and China trade representatives are set to complete a saga of fierce bilateral negotiations...
Hard seltzer has become a phenomenon, bursting onto the scene over the past few years with sales...
With the end of year holiday rally continuing to drive stocks to new highs, markets continue to...
U.S. stocks chartered new all-time highs on Tuesday and were on pace for their fifth straight...
While stocks have soared to fresh, all-time highs this year, making this the “most hated bull...
As 2020 fast approaches, the bigger long term trade deal, the one between China and the United...
As markets move toward the close of the year, growth stocks with excessively high valuations in...
Shares of the online pet retailer, Chewy(CHWY), climbed over 6% last week, as the company...
U.S. markets are posting gains on news that the U.S. and China are “very close” to a trade deal.
One unique aspect of markets is that they are driven by the human emotions of fear and greed....
2019 has been an impressive year for equities thus far, as the S&P broke the ominous 3000...
In the most recent FOMC meeting announcement on Dec. 11, the Federal Reserve held interest rates...
Leveraged ETFs aim to amplify and sometimes transpose the daily return of an underlying index or...
U.S. markets are recovering some overnight losses on the heels of news that the House Democrats...
Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve under Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald...
Despite investors hesitant to jump on and ride this bull market, the longest bull run in history...
U.S. markets broke to fresh highs once today, and now a more stable global manufacturing industry...
U.S. stocks have been on a tear lately, and Goldman Sachs now feels that the U.S. economy is...
U.S. markets are testing all-time highs once again this week amidst optimism that a phase one...
Could cyrptocurrency ETFs be too small to get SEC approval? That is what one crypto expert...
After struggling to reach new highs once again Wednesday, markets are pulling back some Thursday...
Options bets suggest that traders may be a bit too unnerved about the risks facing the stock...
While Bitcoin ETFs have struggled with regulatory approval, the new year will usher in fresh...
The S&P 500 has rallied to fresh all-time highs today on the back of a new streaming service...
On the launch day for Walt Disney Co.’s Disney+ (DIS) streaming service, the company already...
In its latest efforts to compete with other brokerage firms and to attract Millennials, a younger...
Shares of Boeing (BA) climbed nearly 4% in early afternoon trading, adding more than 94 points to...
U.S. stocks sold off early Friday as optimism that had risen about the prospects of the U.S....
Shares of T-Mobile (TMUS) slid 3% on the news that WeWork is conducting a search for a CEO and...
The Global X MSCI Greece ETF (GREK ) has pulled back in recent days, but the lone Greece ETF...
With ecological conservation a more active force than ever, organizations have sought to...
U.S. markets closed near record highs for the week, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 1.1%...
While President Trump has affected markets with tweets and posturing, is it possible a Democratic...
Last week, U.S. stocks reversed all the gains from Wednesday, to trade back below Thursday’s...
Crude oil prices are dropping today after the EIA released inventory data on Wednesday, showing...
(AMAZON) sorely disappointed analysts’ expectations in its latest earnings report, and now it has...
Apple (APPL) reported fourth-quarter earnings that bested analyst expectations on Wednesday, as a...
With expectations of easier monetary policy and further progress in trade negotiations the...
While the healthcare ETFs like the iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF (IBB ) are pulling back...
Wall Street was generally bullish on Beyond Meat (BYND) after the alternative meat producer...
American automotive and energy company, Tesla (TSLA), delivered a robust third-quarter earnings...
Bitcoin tumbled last week as members of Congress strove to underscore the downsides of the...
Boeing (BA) has been closely watching the ongoing U.S. trade war with China, as heightened...
There’s been no shortage of news regarding the trade war, Brexit, and impeachment investigations...
Shares of Biogen Inc. rocketed higher on Tuesday, headed for their strongest performance in 20...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that it is “completely inappropriate” for China...
With the constant back-and-forth of markets this year due to fluctuating news headlines, a...
Markets are down slightly Wednesday and trading in a relatively narrow range so far, as investors...
New evidence has been mounting that the Federal Reserve could soon take a break in its latest...
A large jump in interest rates last year, combined with all-time high home prices has made...
With earnings season off to a strong start and markets moving up handily once again this week,...
One trend that has been happening lately in the ETF space is bigger banks have been out...
With the broad market in constant vacillation recently do to trade war news, investors have been...
U.S. markets rallied fiercely last week after President Donald Trump tweeted that “good things”...
Despite their hype, consumers are not likely recognize an improvement in their phones when using...
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced late last month that it is has decided to...
While markets have had a choppy week, 2019 has revealed some outstanding performers in certain...
The third quarter of 2019 saw heavy inflows into defensive sectors of the market, especially into...
After rallying to over $62 a barrel 10 days ago, WTI crude oil prices slumped even more mid-week...
With revised GDP numbers, the consumer discretionary sector, which has been driving the economy...
While Target, with its stellar second quarter earnings, is one of the few shining lights in...
Oil prices fell nearly 2% on Thursday, extending the previous session’s 3% drop, to trade a...
After taking a bashing toward the end of 2018, Take-Two Interactive (TTWO) stock has floated...
U.S. markets surged in early trading Tuesday with the Dow up 420 points (1.62%), the S&P 500...
While earnings season has been in the news, capturing investors’ attention as much of the broader...
With most investors anticipating a Federal Reserve rate cut this week as likely a sure thing,...
After a monstrous rally in June and July so far, as the market recovered all of its May losses...
Amazon’s (AMZN) Prime Day, the annual shopping holiday that’s exclusive to Prime subscribers, has...
The online retail sector has taken off with companies like Amazon and Alibaba becoming household...
With U.S. governmental hearings on Facebook’s (FB) Libra cryptocurrency on July 16 and 17,...
Amazon (AMZN), which is getting ready to move thousands of its employees from its headquarters in...
It’s been looming up there for some time. The big one: 3,000. I’m talking about the S&P 500...
With all the back and forth in recent months due to global trade issues and generalized economic...
Indian equities are among the best emerging markets performers this year. While the MSCI India...
Sprott released a new episode of Commodity Culture focused on uranium, diving into the scientific...
An abundance of doubt has been circulating in the past few months as to the validity of ESG...
With the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield hovering below 1% and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell...
Investors could be forgiven to think there was no reason to invest outside of the U.S. for the...
