The American people are feeling really good right about now. For example, Gallup’s economic confidence index has hit the highest level that we have seen since the last recession. In addition, nearly half of all Americans believe that 2015 will be a better year than 2014 was, and only about 10 percent believe that it will be a worse…
The freight railroad industry, like other industries, faces certain external and internal challenges. In addition to being an extremely mature industry, railroads are capital intensive, requiring operators to always have access to capital markets. Further, the cyclical nature of business makes it susceptible to macroeconomic changes and hurts growth during economic downturns. Below, we discuss…
The wearable market has just begun to heat up, with major players, as expected, being Apple and Google. Google is behind Android Wear, the wearable operating system used in devices like the Moto 360. Apple, however, has developed an operating system specifically for its upcoming smart watch, the Apple Watch. One thing that both Apple…
Here on A Dash, we do our best to steer individual investors away from politically motivated agendas and misleading analysis. An important part of this is being able to recognize colleagues and friends who do outstanding work to expose myths and rumors in the financial media of all kinds. We congratulate these writers with the Silver Bullet…
It’s time again for my weekly gasoline update based on data from the Energy Information Administration(EIA). Rounded to the penny Regular and Premium both dropped 10 cents. Regular is at its lowest price since May 2009. According to GasBuddy.com, Hawaii has the highest average price at $3.51. The highest continental average price is in New York at…
It appears, despite all the promises, all the lies, and all the constant propaganda, that foreign investors have finally seen right through Shinzo Abe’s risible plan to revive the Japanese economy by crashing its currency (just like Russia?). As Bloomberg reports, after pumping record amounts of cash into Japanese shares last year, they’ve hardly added to holdings in 2014. Inflows…
The Chart of the Day belongs to Chesapeake Utilities (NYSE:CPK). I found the stock by sorting the All Time High list for stocks with the most frequent now highs in the last month ten used the Flipchart feature to review the charts. Since the Trend Spotter signaled a buy on 12/9 the stock gained 11.77%. CPK is a utility company engaged…
March 18, 2014. Russia just annexed Crimea. All G-7 countries condemned the move and promised more sanctions. First sanctions were small and weak. That same day, Jay Carney, Obama’s chief spokesman, literally said: “I wouldn’t, if I were you, invest in Russian equities right now. Unless you’re going short.” I remember big noise on CNBC. Several pundits,…
The notion of companies returning more and more to their shareholders through various types of dividend-related events is always something that has intrigued me. With that said, I wanted to highlight one particular company that has recently announced a 20% increase in its regular quarterly payout. TerraForm Power (TERP) – On December 22, TerraForm Power,…
(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…
