The euro has declined roughly 13% against the dollar over the past six months. This is supposed to be stimulative for the eurozone economy, but it remains moribund. What gives? Part of the problem is that the bilateral exchange rate is not the proper metric in this context. To understand how a currency’s fluctuation impacts…
by Rick Ackerman, Rick’s Picks I don’t often feature technical analysis as the topic of the week. In this case, however, the Dollar Index is at a crucial threshold that deserves a drum-roll and our close attention. Notice the two tightly spaced purple lines near the top of the chart. These are ‘Hidden Pivot’ rally targets…
Small-cap funds are believed to have higher growth potential. Small-cap funds are a good choice for investors seeking diversification across different sectors and companies. Investors with a high risk appetite should invest in these funds. Small-cap funds generally invest in companies having market cap lower than $2 billion. The companies, smaller in size, offer growth…
Small-cap funds are believed to have higher growth potential. Small-cap funds are a good choice for investors seeking diversification across different sectors and companies. Investors with a high risk appetite should invest in these funds. Small-cap funds generally invest in companies having market cap lower than $2 billion. The companies, smaller in size, offer growth…
Retirement planning is not only financial. Retirement planning is more than analyzing your expenses and investment accounts. It is a deeply personal journey of who you are, what you like to do, and what type of legacy you wish to create. Retirement planning has a financial component, but before you gather all your bank statements,…
If you’re investing in stocks, identifying those that are set to take off is key to outperforming the stock market. Unfortunately, identifying stocks that are about to take off is extremely difficult. With corporate filings that run in the hundreds of pages, there’s a lot that investors don’t know. In the market, what you…
Wow, what a downer yesterday was. Our Members were loving it as we reviewed our Short-Term Portfolio on Friday afternoon and it was up just 68.7% for the year at $168,680 and, of course, we were bearish into the weekend. Those same positions, with no adjustments, finished the day yesterday up 81.7%, at $181,680…
Starting in the mid-1990s, “the mall genie was out of the bottle,” says one mall analyst, “and it was never going to come back.” While about 80% of the country’s 1,200 malls are considered healthy (vacancy rates of 10% or less), that compares with 94% in 2006; and more than 30 million square feet of malls are more than…
European equities fell sharply in choppy trading on Monday, with concerns over Greece’s future in the euro zone and a steep drop in prices of crude oil and copper hurting financial and commodities stocks the most. Energy and mining shares were the worst hit. The European oil and gas and basic resources indexes fell 4.9 percent…
Currency markets had an eventful 2014 with the U.S. dollar touching multi-year highs against a basket of major currencies. Improving U.S. economic data, escalating geopolitical tensions, diverging central bank policies around the world and chances of a sooner-than-expected rate tightening cycle in the U.S. were some of the factors contributing to a stronger greenback. In…
