Finance

BlackBerry Posts Earnings In Q3, Revenues Lag Estimates

Canadian handset manufacturer BlackBerry Limited (BBRY – Analyst Report), reported third-quarter fiscal 2015 financial results wherein the bottom line outpaced the Zacks Consensus Estimate but the top line missed the same by a huge margin.  Third Quarter Results in Detail  GAAP loss from continuing operations in the third quarter of fiscal 2015 came in at $148 million or a…

Fog Of War

I think this man must be worried. He has a huge weight on his shoulders. This is Thomas Jordan, the head of the Swiss National Bank. Mr. Jordan has excellent academic credentials.  He’s a scholar, and a ‘lifer’ at the SNB: University of Berne, PHD Economics Department of Economics at Harvard University,three-year post-doctoral research. 1997…

Chicago Fed Nat’l Activity Index: Nov 2014 Preview

The three-month average of the Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI) is expected to rebound to a +0.12 reading in the November update that’s scheduled for Monday (Dec. 22), based on The Capital Spectator’s median point forecast for several econometric estimates. The projection is moderately above the -0.01 reading for October, which reflected a fractionally…

RLJ Lodging Trust – Chart Of The Day

RLJ Lodging Trust (NYSE:RLJ) is the Barchart Chart of the Day. The Hotel REIT has a Trend Spotter buy signal, a Weighted Alpha of 39.73+, gained 37.99% in the last year and paid a 3.56% dividend. The Chart of the Day is RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ). I found the hotel REIT by sorting the RLJ Lodging Trust list for…

Investment And Interest Rates

In a recent post, I noted that actual non-residential fixed capital investment doesn’t show the pattern one would expect based on optimizing models at all. Ugh that sentence was convoluted and so is the post it describes. In fact, the puzzling pattern is really very simple. Non residential fixed capital investment (nrfinv) is high when interest…

EC The Various

You have to wonder why anyone would want to launch a domestic long/short equity fund these days. The S&P 500 Index has climbed 15 percent in the last 12 months. Buying a low-cost index tracker like the SPDR S&P 500 ETF(NYSE Arca: SPY) or the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (NYSE Arca: IVV) seems like a no-brainer. Despite…