RLJ Lodging Trust (NYSE:RLJ) is the Barchart Chart of the Day. The Hotel REIT has a Trend Spotter buy signal, a Weighted Alpha of 39.73+, gained 37.99% in the last year and paid a 3.56% dividend. The Chart of the Day is RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ). I found the hotel REIT by sorting the RLJ Lodging Trust list for…
In a recent post, I noted that actual non-residential fixed capital investment doesn’t show the pattern one would expect based on optimizing models at all. Ugh that sentence was convoluted and so is the post it describes. In fact, the puzzling pattern is really very simple. Non residential fixed capital investment (nrfinv) is high when interest…
You have to wonder why anyone would want to launch a domestic long/short equity fund these days. The S&P 500 Index has climbed 15 percent in the last 12 months. Buying a low-cost index tracker like the SPDR S&P 500 ETF(NYSE Arca: SPY) or the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (NYSE Arca: IVV) seems like a no-brainer. Despite…
Identiv (INVE) has been a company we have written a lot about over the last six months. Normally, we only trade small cap companies and rarely invest in them, but Identiv is one we believe is a worthy investment because of its undervaluation and growth potential. Well known activist investor David Callan first pointed out…
The stock whisper of the day is: (BP), (BBRY), (GDX). Video Length: 00:04:07
As we approach the year’s end, I want to look at an important trend that could revolutionize our lives in 2015. I’m talking about Bitcoin (BITCOMP), the groundbreaking digital currency. You see, as it matures and heads toward wider acceptance, Bitcoin will unleash gale force winds on the financial services industry and its regulatory protector,…
This Great Graphic, from Bloomberg, depicts the performance of three global equity benchmarks indexed to the start of the year. Click on picture to enlarge The green line is MSCI Emerging Market equity index. It had been doing well until early September. It has been crushed since. The case for emerging markets was predicated on a…
Help, I’m getting a nosebleed! Like a roller-coaster that takes you higher and higher, it’s fun to anticipate the drop ahead but now we’re running out of oxygen at these levels (and yes, we’re shorting again) as the Russell challenges 1,200 again and the Dow, S&P and Nasdaq come close to their highs yet again. Click on…
CLICK ON CHART TO ENLARGE If one likes the idea of buying low and selling higher, junk bonds might come to mind due to how hard they’ve been hit of late! The chart below highlights that an unusual and large performance spread between JNK and the S&P 500. Its not often that these…
It’s all about real estate investment trusts (REITs) these days when it comes to bullish performance among the major asset classes via our standard list of ETF proxies for the key slices of global markets. US REITs, to be precise, are enjoying a melt-up moment. But don’t confuse the stellar results with foreign REITs, which are posting…
