Michael Batnick

After spending over 25 years leading the e-commerce company he founded, Jeff Bezos stepped down as the CEO of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) in 2021. With Amazon shares struggling, could Bezos make a triumphant return in 2023? What Happened: Ritholtz Wealth Management Managing Partner Michael...

Meme stocks were one of the biggest trends on Wall Street in 2021. Plenty of traders made a killing trading stocks like AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc (NYSE: AMC) and GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) and meme cryptocurrencies like Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE). AMC shares are on track to finish 2021 up more...

AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc (NYSE: AMC) held on to its weekly gains in early afternoon trading on Friday after a sharp pullback in Thursday’s session. Heading into next week, AMC traders will be asking themselves if this week’s run-up is a repeat of January trading action in GameStop...

AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc (NYSE: AMC) stock gave up big premarket gains and was plunging Thursday after the company announced a new stock offering and warned its investors about the risks involved in owning shares. What Happened: For the second time in three days, AMC announced a stock...

A week after the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average hit new all-time highs, the indexes plummeted another 4% and into correction territory after Goldman Sachs cut its 2020 S&P 500 earnings growth to 0%, well below consensus estimates of 7% growth. A market correction is defined as a...

The bull market rally after the 2008 financial crisis has unquestionably been one of the longest and most powerful stock market rallies in history. But just how long and how powerful the bull market has been is somewhat open to interpretation. What's A Bull Market? The traditional...

One of the most popular images making the rounds on Financial Twitter this week comes courtesy of Ritholtz Wealth Management Director of Research Michael Batnick. The long and short of it is, as of July 18, the top five companies in the S&P 500 had a combined market value of $4.095 trillion....

Michael Batnick of Ritholz Wealth Management and Aaron Klein of Riskalyze met on stage Tuesday at the 2018 Benzinga Global Fintech Awards to discuss the future of financial advising. Here are some key takeaways from the session: Riskalyze has become successful by creating more of a "...

High-flying tech stocks were hammered Wednesday, sending the Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSE: XLK) down more than 2.5 percent and the Nasdaq down 1.4 percent, its worst day of trading since August 17. Despite the bloodbath in the tech sector, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was trading...

The S&P 500 index was trading lower by just 0.12 percent Monday afternoon. Should the market stay relatively calm and quiet, the index will end the trading session within 1 percent of where it started in the morning for the thirtieth straight day. According to The Irrelevant Investor, the lack...

Investors are cheering the S&P 500’s first new all-time high in more than a year this week, but The Irrelevant Investor’s Michael Batnick is having a difficult time celebrating the occasion. According to Batnick, the recent market moves have made him very uncomfortable. “It...

The majority of us aren't geniuses. Luckily, The Irrelevant Investor’s Michael Batnick says emotional intelligence is far more important when it comes to investing than IQ. “Too many people invest as if their success in one area of life will translate to market beating returns,...

One of the hottest debates on Wall Street since the S&P 500 started out 2016 with a historic sell-off is whether or not we are on the cusp of a bear market. According to Ritholtz Wealth Management’s Michael Batnick, the bear market may have already come and gone. A bear market is...