Author Archives: Darren Marchal

Dividend Income Update – November 2014

These are the posts that are the central reason we are part of the dividend growth community: Dividend income. November was another great month of passive income “earned” as I continue to build upon my snowball via annual dividends received. A couple months ago I reported how Iexceeded $2,000 in dividend income for the year and…

How To Waste £375 Billion – Positive Money – Apologia...

I have been looking into and communicating with some of those involved with PositiveMoney.org of late. The Princes of the Yen documentary that was featured here the other day was produced by some fellows that are also involved with this movement, although that Positive Money message did not permeate the documentary. There was no clear solution promoted, and most of the…

America Faces Another Shutdown?

When a commentator says that government spending is out of control and on autopilot, today’s reader becomes bored and moves on to a different article. I’ve personally been pounding the table with this message since my commentary became a part of Wall Street Daily nearly two years ago. But it’s different this time… You see, Congress and…

Equifax – Chart Of The Day

The Chart of the Day is Equifax (NYSE:EFX), I found the company by sorting the All Time High list for the stocks hitting the most frequent new Highs in the last month, then used the Flipchart feature to review the charts. Since the Trend Spotter signaled a new buy on 10/28 the stock gained 7.43%. Equifax is one of the leaders…

Keynesian Cassandras? The Sequester Re-Assessed

Tyler Cowen’s anti-Keynesian manifesto has been ably discussed by Professor Simon Wren-Lewis at Mainly Macro. I thought what merited additional attention is Professor Cowen’s first assertion: 1. Keynesians predicted disaster following the American fiscal sequester, and the pace of the recovery accelerated. I don’t think of myself as a Keynesian (the material I teach in my courses…

More Jobs

Podcast: Play in new window | Play in new window (Duration: 13:16 — 6.1MB) DOW + 33 = 17912 SPX + 7 =2074 NAS + 18 = 4774 10 YR YLD + .01 = 2.29% OIL + .49 = 67.37 GOLD + 11.60 = 1211.10 SILV – .04 = 16.52 Record high for the Dow Industrials and the S&P…

Bull Of The Day: Brown Shoe Company

Brown Shoe Company (BWS – Snapshot Report) is cashing in on demand for new shoes as it handily beat the Zacks Consensus in the third quarter. This Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) also raised full year guidance. Brown Shoe Company is a global footwear company that owns numerous well-known brands including Dr. Scholl’s, LifeStride, Sam Edelman, Franco Sarto,…

T2108 Update – Sellers Fail To Seal The Deal On Topping Pattern

(T2108 measures the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages [DMAs]. It helps to identify extremes in market sentiment that are likely to reverse. To learn more about it, see my T2108 Resource Page. You can follow real-time T2108 commentary on twitter using the #T2108 hashtag. T2108-related trades and other trades are sometimes posted on…

4 Smart Beta ETFs That Standout From The Crowd

The race to declare dominance over a particular segment of the market is one that fund companies dream about. They work hard to conjugate unique strategies that stand above plain vanilla indexes in the hopes that their secret sauce adds a measure of value. While this year found many fundamental or “smart beta” ETFs at parity with…