The yield on the 10-year note closed on January 2nd at 2.12%. It hit its year-to-date low of 1.68% a month later and its YTD closing high of 2.50% on June 10th. It closed yesterday back at that January 2nd 2.12%. The first chart shows the daily performance of several Treasuries and the Fed Funds…
Here’s the post I did on September 30th, and this is the stock price since then:
Until July of this year, the most expensive stocks were among the priciest in history. That’s because U.S. stocks were the most expensive they’d been since World War II, as measured by their price/earnings (P/E) ratio. How to Calculate the Most Expensive Stocks (or the Cheapest) The price/earnings ratio – also known as a price multiple…
The warnings are getting louder. Is anybody listening? For months, I have been documenting on my website how the global financial system is absolutely primed for a crisis, and now some of the most important financial institutions in the entire world are warning about the exact same thing. For example, this week I was stunned to see…
Online Trading Academy Article of the Week by Sam Evans, Online Trading Academy In the world of conventional Technical Analysis, there are many different approaches ranging from basic candlestick patterns to a variety of technical indicators, most of which tend to give very lagging signals to buy and sell. As I have explored in previous articles, if…
The EUR/USD pair went back and forth during the course of the session on Thursday, showing volatility yet again. We simply cannot do anything with this market right now, as it has been bouncing around in a relatively tight range. Don’t get me wrong, I think that there will be buying and selling opportunities for…
If you make it so burdensome to operate a legit business, then you’re basically giving people without big lines of credit and capital few choices but to work in the cash-only underground economy. It won’t be much of a surprise to those living outside the Washington D.C. beltway and the Unicorn Herd of start-ups selling…
GBPUSD: GBP took back its intra day losses to close higher on Thursday leaving risk of more strength on the cards. On the upside, resistance resides at the 1.5400 level. Further out, resistance resides at the 1.5450 level followed by the 1.5500 level. Its daily RSI is bullish and pointing higher suggesting further strength. Its…
Good stuff for bulls as resistance levels get ticked off on the advance. There breathing room for many indices and a chance for consolidation. Nit pickers could point to light volume, but it would be hard for buyers to be coming in here given the sequence of gains. The Nasdaq 100 still remains tagged to…
Portfolio Transaction On Sep 16, 2015, we sold NPK (National Presto) stock at $84/share. This sale resulted in 43.26% total return. The NPK stock predates the start of the Value Stock Guide service and therefore has been one of the longer held stock for us, having initially purchased on Sep 30, 2009. Late last year…
