
Tough political talk fires up defense stocks
This year’s presidential election has seen both presumptive candidates making the case for a strong military – and that’s apparently been a good thing for investors in defense stocks.
This year’s presidential election has seen both presumptive candidates making the case for a strong military – and that’s apparently been a good thing for investors in defense stocks.
For many investors, the end of the year brings the inevitable question of whether and how to rotate your portfolio.
The U.S. spends more money on its military than all of the next seven biggest spending nations combined.
To invest in the future, we must sometimes look in the past.
Air strikes earlier this week by the US and Arab allies were what the Pentagon called the “beginnings of a sustained campaign” in areas of Syria and Iraq controlled by fighters from the...
The roster of global trouble spots seems nearly endless right now.
You may remember a bit of anxious hand-wringing a little less than a year ago in reaction to automatic federal spending cuts that eventually went into effect on March 1, 2013.
Many would argue that the recent events in Ukraine further bolster the idea that the US must continue as a legitimate global military presence whenever and wherever it is needed.
Even coming as it did at the end of Thanksgiving weekend, it was hard to miss the revelation by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos – first delivered on 60 Minutes – that his company was planning a drone...
The federal budget crunch hasn’t exactly put the squeeze on American defense contractors.