From an underdog priced at a heavy discount, Oracle is now emerging as a leader in the cloud with a stock that is priced accordingly. I show why many investors were falling victims to recency bias and ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Recency bias is the tendency for people to overweight new information or events, projecting them into the future while ignoring long-term evidence. This bias causes many investors to engage in ...

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Advisors consider “recency” bias one of the most pernicious examples of biases affecting their clients’ decision-making, according to a new study from Charles Schwab Investment Management. The “BeFi ...