The Chart of the Day belongs to Healthcare Trust of America (NYSE:HTA). I found the stock by sorting the All Time New High list for the stock having 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 signal on 12/19 the stock gained 1.27%….
GDP growth for the third quarter was revised higher, from 3.9% to 5.0%. But I’m viewing the numbers with a healthy dose of skepticism. I tossed out my thoughts on StockTwits this morning: The BEA’s tables dig deeper into the data. Of the 5.0% in GDP growth, 0.80% was increased government spending, and 0.78% was an increase in…
I have already written a mea culpa on zulily, Inc. (ZU). However, I feel that my trade on this stock was so bad, it deserves a SECOND one… especially since as I write, the stock is down about 8% in what looks like continuation selling from November’s post-earnings breakdown and gap down. The stock is apparently…
In their third estimate of the US GDP for the third quarter of 2014, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported that the economy was growing at an astounding +4.96% annualized rate, up an additional +1.07% from their prior estimate for the 3rd quarter and now up +0.37% from the already very healthy 4.59% annualized growth rate…
The Dow continues to press higher. Despite the yelling and screaming this is a huge bubble. The oscillators even dispute that claim. Here is the Dow reconstructed back to 1790. We are just starting to poke through to the upside warning that high is not yet in place. Our year-end number for…
It seems like every day there is a new burger startup. Companies are springing up in this space all over the country, and they are eating into the market share of traditional burger giant McDonald’s (MCD – Analyst Report). MCD is being left in the dust by a number of upstarts that are either offering arguably better…
IBM (IBM) is one of the oldest publicly traded technology corporations. The company was founded in 1911 and has grown to a value of $160 billion. The company has not reduced its dividend payments since 1993; a streak of 21 consecutive years of dividend payments without a reduction. IBM’s impressive dividend streak makes it a…
Here is a trio of interesting charts to consider for shorting.
Forget the middle-aged belt-and braces stockbroker who ‘knows’ a good stock. Ignore the 5-star tech analysts who never saw a startup he didn’t like (with your money). Meet 25-year-old math PhD Sam Barnett, CEO of SBB Research – a quant hedge fund – who, instead of wild extrapolations and Keynesian hockey-sticks, trades the market by “using data…
Photo Credit: PR, Screenshot – NFLabs After three years in operation, NFLabs, Korea’s most promising Big Data startup has raised series A funding from Big Basin Capital, Bon Angels and Coolidge Corner investment. The funding of $1.5 million USD will be primarily used to bring the startups big data analytics and visualization software to a global…
