It breaks my heart to see awesome short setups and not be able to find any shares. Nonetheless, I shared this idea – El Pollo Loco – as a short a couple of weeks ago, and it’s doing great. I haven’t made a penny off my idea, but I hope a few of you were…
The Dividend Achievers Index includes 238 businesses (at the time of this writing) that have increased their dividend payments for 10 or more consecutive years. To be eligible for inclusion in the Dividend Achievers Index, a stock must be a member of the NASDAQ US Benchmark Index, as well as meet certain minimum liquidity requirements. Over the next…
We have been noting the bearish state of the gold miners for all too long now; most recently in NFTRH 321. But at some point I have got to believe that given a continued fundamental improvement and clearing of tax loss season, an opportunity is coming. Meanwhile, here’s the last straw breaking on the short-term…
Source: Pixabay Dear Diary, The Dow lost 315 points on Friday – a nearly 2% plunge. It is bound to happen sooner or later: US stocks will enter a bear market. Nothing can stop it. Nature and the gods command it. The Dow will fall as much as 1,000 points in a day. Then we’ll see…
Shares of Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:TTPH) have gained almost 40% in the past one month and had reached an all time high of $32.93 On December 10, 2014. The stock has been outperforming the broader market on the buyout buzz. After the announcement of takeover of its competitor Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc by Merck & Co. Inc., there…
How tight is money in the mining industry? So much so, according to Chris Ecclestone, mining strategist with Hallgarten & Co., that juniors are punished for resource estimates because the market believes they can’t afford to develop their properties further. In this interview withThe Gold Report, Ecclestone explains that canny juniors are choosing past-producing properties, which…
Lasse Mäkelä, CEO of Invesdor, shares his thoughts on where crowdfunding is heading. Photo Credit: Invesdor PR, YouTube screenshot I’m working on a book on equity crowdfunding in Europe and in my opinion, Invesdor is one of the best platforms in Europe. Recently, Invesdor agreed to cooperate with the business angel network FiBAN. Such partnerships are becoming increasingly popular as a way for angel…
It should not be too difficult for investors to remember the financial media’s general recommendation for stock exposure in the previous decade. Based primarily on the enormous success of emerging markets and developed foreign markets – talking heads on CNBC regularly talked about total market cap of world equities being a 50% split between the…
The stunning 40% drop in the price of oil over the past few months has scrambled global economic forecasts, changed the geo-political landscape, and has severely pressured many energy sector investments. Economists are scratching their heads to determine if the drop is good or bad for the economy or whether cheap oil will add to…
“Let’s play him,” my teenage daughter said to me this summer as we walked through New York’s Washington Square Park, where the chess sharks seek unsuspecting prey. I negotiated the terms of the engagement with the 20-year chess veteran and then gave him a bit of a shock when my daughter sat down opposite him instead…
