Monthly Archives: December 2014

Here Are America’s Most Levered Energy Companies

Instead of beating an already dead horse so it looks like the Japanese (and soon, European) economy, and commenting even more on what the oil price collapse will mean for America’s energy producers (andInvestment as a component of GDP) we decided to bypass the foreplay and proceed straight to showing the 70 or so most levered publicly traded…

Elliott Wave Charts Point To Shocking Countertrend For Gold: Stev

It’s not just surfers who scrutinize wave patterns. Steven Hochberg, chief market analyst at Elliott Wave International, uses the Wave Principle to predict the movements of commodities and the stock market based on a number of factors, including sentiment. In this interview with The Gold Report, he reads the waves and sees indications that the stock market…

Market Analysis For Week Of 7 Dec., 2014

This week we’ll begin with our monthly and weekly forecasts of the currency pairs worth watching. The first part of our forecast is based upon our research of the past 11 years of Forex prices, which show that the following methodologies have all produced profitable results: Trading the two currencies that are trending the most…

Web.com Group Inc: Okumus Fund Management Raises Stake And Goes A

Ahmet Okumus‘ Okumus Fund Management has further raised its stake in Web.com Group Inc (NASDAQ:WWWW) and went activist on the stock. Okumus has recently purchased 480,000 shares of the company at a price of $15.69 per unit, raising the stake to 7.78 million shares. Following the increase, Okumus owns 14.8% of Web.com’s common stock and it has changed the…

Is Insider Trading Legal Following Appeals Court Tossing Out Two

In a stunning rebuke of Preet Bharara’s insider-trading prosecutions record, Businessweek reports a federal appeals court overturned and threw out the guilty verdicts of two hedge fund managers, Todd Newman and Anthony Chiasson, ruling jury instructions tainted their verdicts and imperiling other cases brought in his multiyear probe. In a 28-page decision that could rewrite the course of insider…

I-Billionaire Index: What’s In And What’s Out

Note: We should never mindlessly ape the investment moves of others, no matter how good their long-term track record might be. I do, however, take their moves into consideration and view them as a useful starting point for further research. The Direxion iBillionaire Index ETF (IBLN) is about to get a quarterly overhaul. Its underlying index announced it latest rebalancing…