“It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something different from the majority.” – John Templeton In the conclusion of our earlier article titled “What deadly summers, Sandy Koufax and lucky golfers can tell us about bonds” we wrote: “Deflationary forces around the globe are legion. Despite the battalion of seemingly gargantuan efforts…
When financial markets crash, they do not do so in a vacuum. There are always patterns, signs and indicators that tell us that something is about to happen. In this article, I am going to share with you four patterns that are happening right now that also happened just prior to the great financial crisis…
Moments ago IBM reported that EPS beat consensus expectations of $3.78 modestly, printing Q2 EPS at $3.84, which however was still a 13% drop from the $4.43 EPS in Q2 2014. However, it was not the EPS so much as the ongoing trouble at the topline which has hit IBM stock after hours and why…
Monday was a continuation of Friday’s action: gains for S&P and Nasdaq, losses for Russell 2000. The issues in play at the start of the day, remain in play at the close. The Russell 2000 is perhaps the most worrying of the indices. Today’s losses took the index back to the 50-day MA, but with…
“Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after, And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; He knew human folly like the back of his hand, And was greatly interested in armies and fleets; When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried, the little children died in the streets.”…
The Chart of the Day belongs to Ultragenyx (NASDAQ:RARE). I found the pharmaceutical stock by using Barchart to sort today’s All Time High list for the stocks with the highest Weighted Alpha then used the Flipchart feature to review the charts. Since the Trend Spotter signaled a buy on 5/11 the stock gained 100.07%. Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. is involved…
In spite of the fact that Uber is the most banned company in the world, it thrives for one simple reason: People like it, especially business travelers and millennials, even if politicians don’t. For the first time ever, Uber Tops Taxi Use for Business Travelers. In the three months ended in June, Uber overtook taxis as…
International Business Machines released its latest earnings report after closing bell tonight, posting non-GAAP earnings of $3.84 per share, a 15% year over year decline, and revenue of $20.8 billion, a 1% year over year decline after adjusting for currencies and the divesture of the System x business. Analysts had been expecting earnings of $3.78 per share…
I did a recent post here and over on ZeroHedge which got a lot of views based on the SPY/GLD ratio. Some readers pointed out something that hadn’t occurred to me before: the ETF GLD didn’t even exist until November 2004, which means the ratio is really only valid starting on that day. (SPY, on the other…
Who doesn’t want a portfolio that generates higher returns? However, the mixed bag of events in the domestic turf is leaving investors perplexed about which stocks to count on. On the one hand, the recent weak June retail sales data raises concerns over a step up in economic activity, while on the other, a dismal…
