Today’s Dow – America In A Nutshell
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Dividend Aristocrats In Focus Part 47: Bemis
Bemis (BMS) is one of the most unknown Dividend Aristocrats. It does not have the instant name recognition that fellow Aristocrats McDonald’s (MCD),Coca-Cola (KO), or Wal-Mart (WMT) have. Bemis is a global packaging manufacturing with a market cap of just under $4 billion; very small for a Dividend Aristocrat. The company has paid increasing dividend for 31 consecutive years and…
Oil And Markets
Bloomberg news points to continued trends in oil production and prices. Yves Smith also comments here. …Conventional oil producers in OPEC can no longer dictate prices, United Arab Emirates Energy Minister Suhail Al-Mazrouei said in an interview on Nov. 26. Newcomers to the market who have the highest costs and created the glut should be the ones…
If It Walks Like Deflation And Talks Like Deflation . . .
Call me crazy, but there seems to be a lot of chatter devoted to convincing us that we’re not in a deflationary spiral. One of the main rationales behind QE was that quintupling the size of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet was necessary to engineer a “healthy” rate of inflation of at least 1-2%. Let’s see what…
A Fractured Misconception
Amongst the permabulls of our race – which is basically everybody at this point – there’s this empty-headed notion that as crude oil prices plunge (an event I predicted repeatedly here on Slope), cheaper gas would make the economy boom even more. I’ve read this sentiment so often that I just had to same something – in case you…
Insider Trading Report Edition #232: Notable Buys And Sales
Welcome to edition 232 of Insider Weekends. Insider buying decreased last week with insiders buying $59.33 million of stock compared to $68.12 million in the week prior. Selling increased a little with insiders selling $1.73 billion of stock last week compared to $1.69 billion in the week prior. Sell/Buy Ratio: The insider Sell/Buy ratio is calculated by dividing the total…
3 Retail Stocks To Add To Your Black Friday Shopping List
For those who took a nap after the turkey dinner yesterday and missed out on the early Black Friday sales that started at some stores on Thursday night, the world is not lost yet. Black Friday is THE shopping day of the year when retailers start giving out eye-popping discounts for the season. It has…
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On November 25, 2014 Amgen (AMGN) and AstraZeneca (AZN) announced positive results in a phase 3 study dealing with patients with moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis. The phase 3 trial was known as the AMAGINE-2 trial and was evaluating the experimental drug brodalumab against Stelara and a placebo drug. The trial showed that Amgen and AstraZeneca’s drug…
Thankful For Inflation? Turkey Day Dinner Is Up 6,000% Since 1909
While not hyperinflating, the slow and insidious diminishment of the fiat US Dollar’s purchasing power(and thus the living standards of lower- and middle-class Americans – who are not balls deep invested in the US stock ‘market’) is nowhere more evident than in the soaring costs of Thanksgiving Day dinner during the Fed’s 100 year reign… In 1909… Thanksgiving…
The Race To 0%: Plunging Yields Across The Globe
We are seeing history in the making in the bond market today, with an all-time low in 10-year yields in each of the following countries: Germany: 0.70% France: 0.98% Italy: 2.03% Spain: 1.86% Netherlands: 0.81% Portugal: 2.80% Switzerland: 0.31% Japan 0.41% Source: Bloomberg What do each of these countries have in common? Slow to negative…