contrarian investors

Contrarian investors typically buy poor performing stocks that have become out of favor with investors. Case in point, shares of Macy's Inc (NYSE: M) hit a new 52-week low of $29.70 on Thursday and are now lower by more than 15 percent since the start of 2017 and more than 20 percent over the past...

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...

Contrarian investors typically look to make their money by betting against the wider market. That means thus far in 2016, investors with this kind of strategy are looking to the market's slide as an opportunity. For those with an appetite for risk, the current climate suggests that emerging...

The Bank of America Sell-Side Indicator predicts big returns from the S&P 500 over the next year. Wall Street sentiment remains near the levels seen during the 2009 trough of the Financial Crisis. Historically, sentiment levels this low have been followed by one-year stock market gains 96...