Apple Inc (AAPL – Free Report) posted favorable earnings results in its fiscal second quarter. The good show was driven by impressive iPhone X, iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus sales. Apple’s encouraging earnings results had a positive impact on the tech sector and boosted investor sentiment. Following these promising trends, investing in technology mutual funds with…
Hurricanes continue to impact claims taking procedures in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The market expectations for weekly initial unemployment claims (from Bloomberg/Econoday) were 218 K to 229 K (consensus 220,000), and the Department of Labor reported 211,000 new claims. The more important (because of the volatility in the weekly reported claims and seasonality errors…
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…
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…
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…
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…
JPMorgan analyst Paul Coster upgraded First Solar (FSLR) to Overweight from Neutral and raised his price target for the shares to $85 from $74. The shares closed yesterday up $2.17 to $69.43. The analyst believes investors need to take a “tactical view” of owning First Solar shares, buying and selling the stock within a $60-$110…
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…
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 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…
