As the carnage in the energy sector continues, the butcher’s bill of dividend casualties is starting to grow. Back in March, I explained how Seadrill (SDRL) had the weakest financial position of all the offshore drillers. And in early November, I asserted that dividend cuts were coming. Now, we’re already starting to see the “deluge” I warned about. Seadrill and Trilogy…
The Chart of the Day belongs to Bemis Co (NYSE:BMS). I found the stock by sorting the All Time High list to find the stocks with the most frequent new highs in the last month and then used the Flipchart feature to review the charts. Since the Trend Spotter signaled a buy on 10/21 the stock gained 7.92%. Bemis Company, Inc….
U.S. corporations are more profitable than ever, leaving many firms flush with cash. Deciding what to do with that excess cash is a good problem to have. Companies have several options when it comes to deploying their extra dough. They can make acquisitions, fund organic growth, pay down debt, or return it to shareholders through…
The Japanese economy may well be getting crushed under the weight of Abenomics (courtesy of an unprecedented in history quadruple-dip recession and a record number of Japanese corporate bankruptcies due to the plunging Yen), but as we wrote previously, Abe has effectively hijacked the nation to his (and Paul Krugman’s) stock-market levitating policies and has…
This past week I have been inundated with questions regarding the dive in crude oil prices and the energy sector in general. Is this a fantastic buying opportunity, or is the beginning of something bigger? The answer depends on your time frame. For a speculative trader looking for a short-term opportunity, as shown in the…
Morningstar Wide Moat Total Return ETF (MOAT) offers an interesting conglomeration of stocks. All the companies have one common attribute – a high barrier to entry for competitors and an undervalued stock price. MOAT offers exposure to the top 20 companies identified by Morningstar as having a “wide moat”. Below is the current list of…
The US dollar’s run stopped last week, but not before new highs were recorded against the euro, sterling, and the yen. By the end of the week, the euro had risen 1.4%, sterling 0.9%, and the yen had risen as much as the two of them put together. It was the biggest weekly gain for the…
Photo Credit: Chris Piascik Most formal statements on financial risk are useless to their users. Why? They are written in a language that average people and many regulators don’t speak. They often don’t define what they are trying to avoid in any significant way. They don’t give the time horizon(s) associated with their…
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Oil, has been dominating the headlines on a seemingly daily basis. Of course this comes with good reason as a dramatic drop of almost 50% from summertime highs leave many asking the question of when the bottom will be hit. Though dramatic, the fall in oil price is hardly the only commodity to lose value…
