This morning I wanted to find 5 Small Cap stocks that had consistent price appreciation so I used Barchart to sort the S&P 600 Small Cap Index stocks first for the highest Weighted Alpha, then I used the Flipchart feature to find the stocks trading above their moving averages. Today’s Watch List includes: Lending Tree, Nektar Therapeutics, Solaredge Technologies, LGI…
In the spirit of “everything is going up anyway”, let’s take a look at General Electric, which is one of the few stocks which has actually had a rotten 2017. Take a look at the indicators basing and turning higher as the price collapse seems to have put the brakes on. As long as the…
Guess what? This: EUROPE’S VSTOXX INDEX SLIDES 9.9% TO INTRADAY RECORD LOW Surprising? No. Notable? Probably not, considering how things that aren’t surprising usually aren’t worth mentioning. That said, this is just the latest in a series of “record low” volatility headlines and they’re probably worth at least filing away for posterity. Here’s the chart:…
After negotiating on two versions of the bill already passed by the House and Senate, Republicans unveiled their final tax bill — which would reshape the tax code in three decades, making America more competitive. The Congress will vote on the legislation on Tuesday and sent it to President Donald Trump for his signature by…
THE “STATE OF THE MARKETS”… Another week, another all-time high. Ho-hum. Despite the relentless rise in stock prices, the current market environment seems to offer an awful lot for analysts to complain about. There is the lack of volatility, something that hasn’t been seen for decades. There are the valuation levels, which, at the very…
Ten years after the financial crisis, the specter of a global US dollar shortage is once again showing up in wholesale funding markets. Movies such as The Big Short depicted the previous crisis as the result of homeowners and Wall Street gone wild. The consensus perspective is that inadequate supervision of US mortgages coupled with greed ultimately…
And so it appears that America’s homebuilders – cock-a-hoop over tax reform (which caps the mortgage interest deduction?) – aren’t concerned about affordability, about rising rates, and stagnant incomes. In fact they have not been this optimistic since December 1999. There’s just one thing… as University of Michigan consumer confidence data shows, for the ‘average joe’, homebuying conditions are near…
December 27, 2017 concludes the 180-day lockup period on Byline Bancorp, Inc.(NYSE: BY). When the lockup period ends for Byline Bancorp, its pre-IPO shareholders, directors, and executives will have the opportunity to sell their 22.69 million currently-restricted shares for the first time. Currently, just a small number of the total shares outstanding – approximately 5.7 million…
The euro suffered last week from a lack of conviction about inflation. The ECB raised its growth forecasts but did not alter inflation ones too much. More importantly, they did not change their stance on monetary policy. EUR/USD was already on the rise and attempting to break 1.1860 but then dropped. The pair then extended…
AUD/USD trades near the monthly-high (0.7695), with the pair at risk of extending the advance from the previous week should the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Minutes highlight a greater willingness to move away from the easing-cycle. Even though the RBA remains in no rush to remove the record-low cash rate, the central bank may…
