Turbulence and volatility are in Steven Salz’s forecast for the energy market. The special situations analyst at M Partners tells The Energy Report that falling oil prices are hurting oilfield services companies in different measures depending on their specialties, but that all are taking hits. A sign of the times: He thinks the Halliburton/Baker Hughes merger may…
Sungarden Investment Research Article of the Week by Rob Isbitts, Sungarden Investment Research For a while now, my firm and I have been devout in alerting our clients and blog subscribers to the issues that will confront them as investors if/when the more than three decades of generally falling U.S. interest rates reverses itself. But what…
OVERNIGHT MARKETS AND NEWS March E-mini S&Ps (ESH15 +0.24%) this morning are up +0.29% at a contract high, while European stocks are down -0.91% as a slide in health-care companies leads the overall market lower. The Russian ruble strengthened to just below 60 per dollar on signs of a short-term cash crunch as the Bank of Russia provided…
Deere & Company (DE) was founded in 1837 and has not reduced its dividend payments since 1987. The company sells agricultural, construction, and forestry equipment globally under the John Deere name. The company is a member of the Dividend Achievers Index, a select group of stocks that have increased their dividend payments for 10 or more…
Yesterday, when we reported the latest rumor of Russian gold selling, this time out of SocGen, we said that “it should be noted that SocGen and its “sources” have a conflict: in an indirect way, none other than SocGen is suddenly very interested in Russia stabilizing its economy because as we wrote before, “Russia Contagion Spreads To European…
Unbalanced Back in the Europe of the Middle Ages there existed a curiously schizophrenic attitude to the question of whether the Earth was at the center of the universe. The doctrine of the established Catholic Church decreed that it was. The practical evidence suggested that it wasn’t and the orthodox scientific theory endeavored to fit…
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As drone technology continues to advance, we’re seeing companies come up with increasingly inventive creations. Some are lifesaving; others are more bizarre. Let’s deal with the most productive innovation first… Call 911 for Your Ambulance Drone You know the deal in a medical emergency… The paramedics are quickly summoned to the scene… but just as…
Is the Panic Low In? Below is a daily chart of the Russian ruble. When we recently wrote about the currency’s collapse (see “The Russian Rubble”) we noted: “It is a good bet that the ruble is by now egregiously undervalued, even in light of the oil price decline and economic sanctions” We also opined…
Asian stocks rose Thursday, extending a global surge in equities as the regional index headed for its steepest two-day advance in 13 months. Crude oil pared a fourth weekly decline, while the euro traded near a two-year low and wheat fell. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index jumped 1.7 percent by 11:44 a.m. in Tokyo, after a 0.7…
