Contrarian

Major equity indices have enjoyed substantial gains in November so far. In the first week of the month, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE:SPY) recorded a 4% increase. The tech-heavy Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ:QQQ) outperformed with a 5% rally. The catalyst for this bullish movement was a dovish...

The definition of contrarian investing is a style whereby the investor purchases assets that are performing poorly and sells them when they are doing well. Strictly speaking, contrarian investments are not investments that are lesser known, or up-and-coming like cryptocurrency or laggards in...

Even if they aren’t familiar with the source, most investors at some time or another have heard some variation of the investing quote attributed to 18th century nobleman Baron Rothschild: “Buy when there’s blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own.” This quote is...

In a new report, Credit Suisse analyst Andrew St. Pierre takes a look at the stocks that Credit Suisse doesn't see eye-to-eye with the rest of Wall Street on. St Pierre believes there are plenty of stocks that the rest of Wall Street has wrong. “We screened our current US coverage...

Analysts at Credit Suisse identified 18 stocks where they "stand apart from the consensus views." The 18 picks represent potential opportunities that the market has not yet priced in. Of the 18 names, 12 are Outperform rated and six are Underperform rated. Analysts at Credit...

Certain industries or groups, at times, get hit hard providing venturesome contrarian investors opportunities to earn outsized profits. Contrary investors with the courage and conviction to get into automotive and retailing shares at the depth of the Great Recession have made it out like a bandit....