David Trainer

The second-quarter earnings season is right around the corner, and investors are bracing for some extremely bad numbers. David Trainer, CEO of New Constructs, said Tuesday that U.S. companies are in much better shape as a whole than Wall Street seems to realize. Trainer said much of the market...

June contract WTI crude oil prices plunged another 24% on Tuesday to $15.32 after May contracts dropped below $0 for the first time in history on Monday. U.S. crude oil storage capacity is maxed out as COVID-19 stay-at-home orders and travel restrictions have pushed oil demand to near zero. The...

The financials disclosed in quarterly earnings reports are treated like the gospel by investors. But according to a new paper by researchers at the Harvard Business School and MIT’s Sloan School of Management, the headline numbers may not always be as accurate as they should be. David Trainer...

If you think that exchange-traded funds are a good bet for big-picture, macroeconomic trends, you could be in for a rude awakening. David Trainer, the president of New Constructs (a Nashville-based independent researcher), told Barron's that investors don't spend enough time investigating the...