David Sterman has worked as an investment analyst for nearly two decades. He started his Wall Street career in equity research at Smith Barney, culminating in a position as Senior Analyst covering European banks. While at Smith Barney, he learned of all the tricks used by Wall Street to steer the best advice to their top clients and their own trading desk.
David has also served as Managing Editor at TheStreet.com and Director of Research at Individual Investor. In addition, David worked as Director of Research for Jesup & Lamont Securities. David has made numerous media appearances over the years, primarily on CNBC and Bloomberg TV, and has a master's degree in management from Georgia Tech.
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Here at StreetAuthority, we’re always looking for “game-changing” stocks. In fact, my colleague Andy Obermueller has an entire newsletter dedicated to the subject. These “game-changers” are usually smaller firms that are developing revolutionary new products. Yet we also have our eye on larger, more well-established companies that seek to push… Read More
I have never spent much time on momentum stocks. These stocks tend to move higher and higher with seemingly no regard for the fundamentals of the underlying business. When momentum investors lose interest and sell their stakes, there’s little support in place, and these stocks can tumble swiftly lower. Read More
We’re in the final stretch of 2011, and I say good riddance! The market has been so volatile, I’ve exhausted my supply of Pepto Bismol. This up-and-down nature of the market is really evident when you examine… Read More
Forget what you’ve heard, the market is not rational. Major news events should have a major impact on stocks that are affected. But investors get so caught up in the rest of the market noise that they can miss these momentum-shifting events. Case in… Read More
I’ve been looking at stocks since I was in high school, back in the late 1970s. I eventually chose to turn my fascination with investments into a career. I figured stocks represented the single-best path to wealth creation, thanks to one simple statistic: If you hold an investment for an… Read More
When the market falls out of bed, no stock is safe. Investors disregard any potential growth prospects and ignore all financial statements, indiscriminately dumping every kind of stock. This has surely been the case during the… Read More
When the developed world sneezes, emerging economies catch a cold. This fear explains why investors are quick to shed their emerging-market holdings when the U.S. and European indexes hit rough waters. But it may be time for a new set of rules for investors to follow. Many… Read More
For many investors, the past decade has been utterly forgettable. After all, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is back where it stood at the end of 1999. The Nasdaq is actually 40% lower than where it stood in the spring of 2000. This lousy backdrop for stocks seems to have… Read More
Looking at the current state of the economy, it looks like we’re heading into another year of very low interest rates and insultingly low yields for most bonds and certificates of deposit (… Read More
Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) and Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) have emerged as the three most important players in the consumer technology landscape. These companies are so good at what they do (building deeply loyal customer bases and ever-rising revenue streams) that they may not even notice that they have… Read More
