Christmas heralds the last stretch of this year’s holiday season. The U.S. economy is booming and labor market conditions have improved. Other economic indicators have also largely been on the positive side. The latest in this series is an upward revision of third quarter GDP, which now stands at 5%. Taken together, these are perfect…
by Jody Chudley There’s a shocking statistic you need to know about U.S. oil and the outlook for 2015. Today, I’m going to lay it out on the table – with a full case study. Fact is, one U.S. producer may have just let the cat out of the bag during their 2015 guidance announcement….
MarketWatch published an article reviewing the growing gold repatriation movement throughout Europe. While the author tries to take a “balanced” mainstream view and even throws in a few swings at gold bulls, he is forced to admit that the trend is troubling. There’s only one reason so many countries would want their gold back on sovereign soil…
Don’t save a tree — save your savings. Saving a tree by going paperless is nice, but protecting your financial future is more important. Sony/North Korea adds another warning sign of your need to do something very simple to avoid a potential financial disaster. Keep paper statements. Electronic statements from brokerages, banks and other financial…
Keurig Green Mountain Inc.’s (GMCR – Analyst Report) shares dipped 2.3% on Dec 23, 2014, after it announced the recall of approximately 7 million MINI Plus Brewing System units on grounds of complaints regarding the product on the same day. Keurig Green Mountain received almost 200 reports across the U.S. and Canada of hot liquid…
The S&P 500 set an intraday high of 2,087.56 in the late morning. However it ended the holiday-shorted session with a bit of selling in the final two minutes. The index ended with a flat finish, down a hair (-0.01%) from yesterday’s record close. The yield on the 10-year Note closed at 2.27%, up 1…
Another fall in the price of oil sent investors rushing to the safe haven currencies and helped to push up the Japanese Yen to a 1-month peak versus both the common currency Euro and the U.S. Dollar. Commodity-linked currencies, especially those in less developed economies like Russia, came under heavy pressure with the Russian Ruble…
If there is one thing the investing public has ‘learned’ in the last few years, it is ‘no matter how bad the fundamentals, if it’s been working, buy moar of it’. And so, it is with almost certain confidence that we should expect a resurgent flood of yield-chasing muppetry into no more egregious idiocy than the…
The Chart of the Day belongs to Alliant Energy (NYSE:LNT). I found the stock by sorting the Alliant Energy list for the stocks with the most frequent new highs in the last month then used the Flipchart feature to review the charts. Since the Trend Spotter signaled a buy on 12/18 the stock gained 2.72%. Alliant Energy Corp. is a growing…
The efficient-market hypothesis (EMH) requires that investors have “rational expectations,” that on average the population is correct and whenever new information appears, expectations are updated appropriately. Nice theory, but in the real world investors are anything but “rational.” As human beings, we tend to overreact to new information, behaving in an irrationally exuberant or irrationally despondent fashion….
