Sam Ro

Founder & Editor,

TKer.co

About Sam

Sam Ro is the founder and editor of TKer, the award-winning newsletter curating news, data, and insights on the markets and the economy for long-term investors. He previously wrote the Axios Markets newsletter. Before that, he was the managing editor at Yahoo Finance and the deputy editor of markets at Business Insider. He is a CFA charterholder.

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Buffett: Yes, Luck Plays a Big Role in Investing, Too

Warren Buffett’s success in building a market-beating portfolio of stocks has earned him an almost mythological status in investing lore. But luck also plays a role in picking stocks, writes Sam Ro, editor of Tker.co.

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STOCKS

Tickers: SPY

Stocks, AI, and Jobs: What Investors Need to Know Now

The stock market rallied to all-time highs last week, with the S&P 500 Index (^SPX) closing at 6,791.69 on Friday. The index is up 15.5% year-to-date. Now, with AI technology sweeping across industries, let’s talk about what it means for the labor market in the coming years, writes Sam Ro, editor of Tker.co.

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ECONOMICS

Tickers: SPX

Stocks: It's Always About Earnings. Always.

Time and time again over the past year, I found myself falling back on TKer Stock Market Truth No. 5: Earnings drive stock prices. Any long-term move in a stock can ultimately be explained by the underlying company’s earnings, and estimates for future earnings have been moving higher, notes Sam Ro, editor of Tker.co.

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STOCKS

Tickers: SPY

SPX: How Stocks and the Economy Interact

The stock market just set new highs even as measures of the economy, like job creation, continued to cool. The lesson: Yes, the US stock market and the US economy are closely intertwined. Yet the makeup of earnings per share (EPS), which drives stock prices, differs in several key ways from the makeup of GDP, writes Sam Ro, editor of Tker.co.

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ECONOMICS

Tickers: SPX

Sam's Videos

A Fireside Chat on Markets with Tker’s Sam Ro

Sam is the founder and editor of Tker, an award-winning financial newsletter, as well as a former editor at Yahoo Finance and Business Insider. In this session, he will sit down with Mike for a live chat on US and global markets. They’ll cover the latest economic and geopolitical developments, as well as the ongoing trade and tariff turmoil. Plus, they’ll discuss which stocks, sectors, and strategies can help you best navigate it all.

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