Small-time investors are flooding the market as bigwigs pull out

By Ed Zwirn

New York Post, July 9, 2017

Small investors are piling into stocks at a frantic pace — the event that allows veteran Wall Streeters to call a top of the market.

These individual, or retail, customers invested a net of more than $1.8 billion in US equity funds during the week ending June 28, the first positive reading this indicator has seen since Nov. 4, 2015, when it weighed in at more than $2 billion, according to a report issued by EPFR Global. Continue reading

GM is producing popular car in China, exporting to US

By Ed Zwirn, New York Post, July 2,2017

China’s hottest auto export to the US is a Buick, and that may not sit well with the Trump administration.

General Motors produces the Buick Envision exclusively at a factory in Shanghai, mainly for the Chinese market. About 32,000 of the vehicles, which sell at a base price of $34,065, have been sold in the US since the company introduced the compact SUV to the US market last summer. Continue reading

Brick-and-mortar grocery stores are here to stay

By Ed Zwirn

New York Post, June 25, 2017

The brick-and-mortar grocery store isn’t going away anytime soon.

Amazon’s recently announced $13.7 billion purchase of high-end grocer Whole Foods notwithstanding, e-commerce has been much slower (so far) to break into the supermarket business than into other sectors of the economy. Continue reading