The Dollar’s Outlook At The End Of 2014
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Monthly Archives: December 2014
Make Dividend Growth Investing Your New Year’s Resolution
Dividend growth investing is based on sound investment principles Dividend growth investing borrows from both value investing and growth investing See 3 studies of how dividend growth investing has outperformed Additional resources on dividend growth investing for further reading Dividend growth investing is an investment style focused on growing an investor’s dividend stream through time. …
Vision-Sciences Fell Off The Map
Today I put in a sell order on Vision-Sciences (NASDAQ:VSCI) in the Barchart Van Meerten Speculative portfolio for poor price momentum: Barchart technical indicator: 56% Barchart technical sell signals Trend Spotter sell signal Below its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages 58.86% below its recent high Relative Strength Index 23.74%
Uber Is The Biggest Story For Startups In 2014, Period. Here’s Wh...
Photo Credit: Shutterstock, PR – Uber logo Uber has quickly turned from media darling to media villain, but these stories distract from what’s fundamentally at the heart of it all: that Uber has risen from the soup of nascency and become a behemoth, no matter that it’s more like Goliath than a gentle giant. Uber…
Jim Grant: What The Fed Calls Deflation Is Actually Progress
by Mark Thornton, Ludwig von Mises Institute Jim Grant recently appeared on Yahoo Finance. He was critical of central bankers and economists who fear deflation and argue for unorthodox monetary policy to present deflation. He says that deflation is natural in a modern economy and that falling prices should not be feared and should be…
Stocks Have Never Been More Expensive Based On Long-Term Growth F
As the S&P 500 pushes towards Goldman Sachs’ 2,100 year end target (for 2015!!) today, we thought it worth considering just how much awesomeness has been pulled forward, priced-in, exuberantly-chased. As the following charts show, based on bottom-up long-term-growth expectations, S&P forward P/E valuations have never been higher. But that’s not all… The current Forward P/E…
Will Stryker Finally Bid On Smith & Nephew This New Year?
Rumors hinting at the takeover of U.K.-based Smith & Nephew plc (SNN –Snapshot Report) by its U.S. rival Stryker Corporation (SYK – Analyst Report), dating back to May 2014, resurfaced this week. According to a latest Bloomberg report, a Stryker move for Smith & Nephew could come in as early as the next few weeks. The renewed takeover speculation brought an early…
Using Options To Pay Yourself Monthly Dividends Up To 10%
Sometimes we forget the basics. In our video series, there’s a lesson called “The Secret to Consistent 20-40% Annual Returns on Stocks” and I hope you’ve seen it. While the low implied volatility of the market has made it a rough year for option selling, we were still able to scratch out just under 30%…
EC Connecting
There is no question that falling oil prices are good for a USA-style consumer-driven economy. Falling oil prices put more money into the hands of the consumer — and it is appearing the consumer is now spending more in this holiday season. Already, falling oil prices are migrating into the supply chain reducing costs of…
Long-Term Index Update
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