A good jobs report: 215K jobs gained and wages are up 2.3% y/y. The general picture is of more job gains and more people coming back to the work force, but changes are slow. Wages are slightly better than expected but nothing that screams “rally”. The USD is slightly stronger across the board, but as time…
Gold market review: gold prices could dip. Audio Length: 00:26:56
When you are already pumping as much oil as you possibly can – by default – you are forced to freeze production, or agreeing to a production freeze. Video Length: 00:11:51
Outbid, outspent and outhustled Renminbi-denominated private equity funds basically didn’t exist until about five years ago. Up until that point, for ten golden years, China’s PE and VC industry was the exclusive province of a hundred or so dollar-based funds: a mix of global heavyweights like Blackstone, KKR, Carlyle and Sequoia, together with pan-Asian firms…
Introduction Investing in small-cap stocks is not for everyone. My definition of small-cap is a company whose market is $5 billion or less.However, for those brave souls that are willing to assume a little more risk, they can, under the right conditions, be a very profitable choice. Nevertheless, and in the general sense, small caps…
Goldman Sachs analyst Karen Holthouse downgraded Chipotle Mexican Grill to Neutral saying near-term risks “are mounting.” The analyst sees “on-going cost risk” from Chipotle’s promotional strategy that relies on coupon drops. Further, she points out that even normal events carry the risk of reducing traffic. As an example, Holthouse notes that Chipotle cleaned a store…
Goldman Sachs analyst Karen Holthouse downgraded Chipotle Mexican Grill to Neutral saying near-term risks “are mounting.” The analyst sees “on-going cost risk” from Chipotle’s promotional strategy that relies on coupon drops. Further, she points out that even normal events carry the risk of reducing traffic. As an example, Holthouse notes that Chipotle cleaned a store…
You probably already know that China is the world’s largest car market. But what you might not know is that China’s leaders are pushing that nation’s automakers to improve their fuel standards. So by 2020 we should see the average Chinese-made car using 39% less fuel than models from 2008. To meet this mandate, Chinese firms will…
OVERNIGHT MARKETS AND NEWS June E-mini S&Ps (ESM16 -0.45%) are down -7.50 points (-0.37%) this morning due to a sharp sell-off in European and Japanese stocks. The Euro Stoxx 50 index this morning is down -2.04%. The Nikkei index today fell by -3.55% on a disappointing Tankan report, which indicated weak Japanese business confidence. The…
“confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investing into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety” Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor Of all the concepts that a value investor holds dear, intrinsic value and the “margin of safety” are the most sacred. These ideas form the bedrock of what Benjamin Graham…
