Monthly Archives: May 2018

The Liquidity Problem

Individual investors generally don’t think about liquidity. You send a market order for 200 shares of something, it gets filled instantaneously, no problem. Institutional investors have to think about liquidity a lot. Say you have 200,000 shares of a stock to sell that only trades, on average, a million shares a day. You have a…

Consumer Price Index: April Headline At 2.46%

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the April Consumer Price Index data this morning. The year-over-year non-seasonally adjusted Headline CPI came in at 2.46%, up from 2.36% the previous month. Year-over-year Core CPI (ex Food and Energy) came in at 2.14%, up from the previous month’s 2.12% and above the Fed’s 2% PCE target. Here…

Ten Stocks For Using A Benjamin Graham Value Investing Strategy

Out of the multitude of companies, which ones would legendary value investor Benjamin Graham buy today? I’ve compiled ten great companies that fit the ModernGraham criteria, based on Benjamin Graham’s methods. The companies in this list pass the rigorous requirements of either the Defensive Investor or the Enterprising Investor and are either fairly valued or undervalued by the market. Bed…

Duke Energy Q1 Earnings & Revenues Beat Estimates

Charlotte, NC-based Duke Energy Corporation (DUK – Free Report) is a diversified energy company with a wide portfolio of domestic and international, natural gas and electric and regulated and unregulated businesses which supplies, delivers and processes energy in North America and selected international markets. It is one of the leading electric utilities in the U.S. Estimate Trend & Surprise…

VIX Breaks Below Key Technical Support

Despite the world’s elites decrying President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal – fearful of the kind of Middle East instability already witnessed last night between Israel and Iran (and Syria) – it appears investors don’t have a care in the world. For the first time since mid-January, VIX is back below…

Jobless Claims Still Great

Jobless claims were unchanged in the latest week, and at a level of 211K, bulls on the economy will take it. This week’s 211K reading was also good enough to come in below economists’ expectations which were at 219K. It is also tied for the second-lowest reading in weekly claims since 1969, behind only the 209K…

Stoking The Embers Of Inflation

    Monetary Velocity, an oft-misunderstood metric that quantifies the pace at which money is spent, has recently shown signs of rising after trending lower for the better part of the last decade. Since increasing velocity is frequently associated with inflation, it comes as no surprise the Federal Reserve (Fed) has upped their vigilance towards…