PayPal (PYPL) has officially severed its relationship with eBay Inc. (EBAY – Analyst Report) and is currently trading independently on the Nasdaq. Despite the varying reports of PayPal’s market capitalization value ranging from $46.6 billion to $52 billion, the digital payment company would still have a greater market capitalization than of eBay, whose value will…
With oil trading in the $60s, most investors are focusing on how that price is affecting U.S. shale drillers. Indeed, the industry is struggling. North Dakota, for example, is producing less oil now than it did in December when production peaked at 1.23 million barrels per day (bpd). That’s no small consequence, but the…
Please listen to this week’s Macro Update from Roger Nusbaum, ETF Strategist at AdvisorShares. Running length 00:02:32 http://alphabaskets.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/2015.7.20_Macro-Update-from-Roger.mp3
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There’s nothing more terrifying than hearing my 2-year-old daughter scream as soon as I leave her alone in a room. My body reacts instantly, creating a rush of adrenaline that sets off a mild panic. Has she fallen off the couch onto our tile floors? Or is she just upset I left her alone? That…
Greece defaulted at the end of June, and metals investors expected higher prices in July. What we expected isn’t what we got. It isn’t the first or last time markets surprised investors. Do lower spot prices mean precious metals are failing as a safe-haven investment? Jason Zweig, from the Wall Street Journal, thinks so. He’s…
“It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something different from the majority.” – John Templeton In the conclusion of our earlier article titled “What deadly summers, Sandy Koufax and lucky golfers can tell us about bonds” we wrote: “Deflationary forces around the globe are legion. Despite the battalion of seemingly gargantuan efforts…
When financial markets crash, they do not do so in a vacuum. There are always patterns, signs and indicators that tell us that something is about to happen. In this article, I am going to share with you four patterns that are happening right now that also happened just prior to the great financial crisis…
Moments ago IBM reported that EPS beat consensus expectations of $3.78 modestly, printing Q2 EPS at $3.84, which however was still a 13% drop from the $4.43 EPS in Q2 2014. However, it was not the EPS so much as the ongoing trouble at the topline which has hit IBM stock after hours and why…
Monday was a continuation of Friday’s action: gains for S&P and Nasdaq, losses for Russell 2000. The issues in play at the start of the day, remain in play at the close. The Russell 2000 is perhaps the most worrying of the indices. Today’s losses took the index back to the 50-day MA, but with…
