At G20 last year, all governments agreed to report everyone everywhere to their host countries for tax purposes. The hunt for taxes is destroying the world economy at a staggering rapid pace and this is far worse than even I had anticipated when we first forecast BIG BANG would hit 2015.75 back in 1985….
On December 11, 2014, the U.S. House passed a bill repealing the Dodd-Frank requirement that risky derivatives be pushed into big-bank subsidiaries, leaving our deposits and pensions exposed to massive derivatives losses. The bill was vigorously challenged by Senator Elizabeth Warren; but the tide turned when Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorganChase, stepped into the ring….
In late 2006, default rates on lower-rate subprime private MBS began to rise considerably. Though not a very transparent market to the mainstream media-watching world, bankers knew trouble was brewing as this had not happened before in such a benign house price decline. Banks, knowing what they had on their books, what they had sold to others,…
Stocks have done exceptionally well over the last few years. But the scars of the 2008 crash are still making many investors question their long-held beliefs, including the virtues of ‘buy & hold’ investing. This shows up in weak money flows into equity mutual funds, which have yet to fully reverse despite the market’s strong…
The fundamental issue confronting investors is about supply and demand. In recent weeks, as energy prices and other industrial commodity prices fell, investors focused on supply. The stimulative effect of the fall in prices, and the likely policy response by some major central banks, such as the ECB, and possibly the BOJ. This was good…
The continuing resolution to fund the gov’t $1.1 trillion, the sum of the entire national debt under President Reagan in 1980, narrowly passed the House late Thursday by a 219-206 vote, with support from 57 Democrats. This was after a much turmoil amid fierce lobbying from the White House and Congressional leaders. That’s right. Obama…
by Rohini Grover and Ajay Shah A remarkable feature of options trading is that it reveals a forward-looking measure of the market’s view of future volatility. This was first done by CBOE in 1993 with the S&P 500 index options, with an information product named `VIX’ which reveals the market’s view of future volatility of…
For many, if not most, companies and especially retailers, the great wildcard that is the “massive” Chinese market with the potential of hundreds of millions of buyers in the country’s nascent middle class, has been a slam dunk when it comes to boosting stock prices. After all, what can go wrong? America’s largest retailer was…
On Dec 11, 2014, we issued an updated research report on Avery Dennison Corporation (AVY – Analyst Report), producer of pressure-sensitive materials, and variety of tickets, tags, labels and other converted products. Avery Dennison Corporation reported adjusted earnings of 77 cents per share in the third quarter of 2014, up 11.6% from 69 cents earned in the year-ago quarter….
U.S. industrial production in November is projected to increase 0.3% vs. the previous month in tomorrow’s report from the Federal Reserve, according to The Capital Spectator’s median point forecast for several econometric estimates. The expected gain represents a moderate rebound after October’s 0.1% decline. Compared with a trio of estimates based on recent surveys of…
