Monthly Archives: November 2017

Partnerships & Buyouts To Drive Salesforce (CRM) Q3 Earnings

Salesforce.com, Inc. (CRM – Free Report) is set to report third-quarter fiscal 2018 results on Nov 21. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the quarter is pegged at 37 cents, representing a year-over-year increase of a whopping 52%. Additionally, analysts polled by Zacks project revenues of roughly $2.65 billion, up 23.5% from the year-ago quarter. Let’s see what’s driving this…

Strong Earnings For Small-Cap Cyclicals

By The Royce Funds Co-CIO Francis Gannon on the promising pace of small-cap earnings and what expanding global growth could mean for certain small-cap cyclicals. Image source: Wikimedia Commons The pace of small-cap earnings continues to trend in a positive direction, with results in many cases exceeding expectations. Our friends at Furey Research Partners recently reported that, with…

Creating Easy Income Throughout Retirement

Retirement is a tricky thing to arrange. There are so many ways to approach it, whether through wealth, government assistance, increased frugality, or easy/passive income options. Passive income is the one we want to focus on, partially because it’s getting so much attention recently from people who are not even close to retirement. There are…

Gold Clout, Dollar Rout, Tax Bill Doubt

Through Thursday of this past week, Gold for all the world was yet again reprising its rendition of  “Nowhere Man” –(The Beatles, ’65), apparently en route to a fourth consecutive weekly net change of less than 10 points. But then come Thursday evening was the termination of the “Sell the rumour” (from back in mid-October’s…