Author Archives: Darren Marchal

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TM editors’ note: This article discusses a penny stock and/or microcap. Such stocks are easily manipulated; do your own careful due diligence. – CriticalControl Solutions is the only company out there offering a pure cloud-based software solution for the oil & gas industry (think first-mover advantage here). – This software company reported $50.9 million in…

Nike Tops Q3 Earnings Amid Currency Headwinds; Shares Up

Despite facing intense currency headwinds, Nike Inc. (NKE – Analyst Report) posted solid third-quarter fiscal 2015 results, leading shares of the company to jump 4.5% in yesterday’s after-hours trading session. The company’s quarterly earnings of 89 cents per share surged 18.7% year over year and surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 84 cents. The bottom line was driven by…

5 Things To Ponder: What Hath The Fed Wrought

I was having lunch with a very dear friend of mine yesterday, who is also a very successful financial planner and advisor, who stunned me with an obvious question: “Has the dumb money become the smart money?”  What we were discussing is that, collectively, the majority of the conversations that we were having with our clients…

The Philly Fed ADS Business Conditions Index

Note from dshort: I’ve updated my periodic look at the Philly Fed ADS Index through yesterday’s release, which included the latest Initial Jobless Claims (for the week ending March 14th). The Philly Fed’s Aruoba-Diebold-Scotti Business Conditions Index (hereafter the ADS index) is a fascinating but relatively little known real-time indicator of business conditions for the…