The bankruptcy of Apple supplier GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) offers lessons to all vendors to large companies. Whether supplying a physical product or a service, smaller companies selling to larger companies have to be cautious. Selling to a giant, such as Apple (AAPL) or Walmart (WMT) or Bank of America (BAC), offers the potential for tremendous revenue. However,…
What Is Value Investing? “If you are an investor, your decision to buy and sell is based on the underlying economics of the stock you own.” Value investing is how Warren Buffet built his fortune. Mr. Buffet learned from his professor at Columbia University, Benjamin Graham, to whom the above quote can be attributed. Graham is…
Asian investors are becoming increasingly interested in Israeli innovation and Holy Land founders are more than happy to oblige. Photo Credit: Shutterstock, Diplomatic handshake between countries: flags of China and Israel After learning about Israeli Magma Venture Partners (which holds in its portfolio Google (GOOG)-acquired Waze and Facebook (FB)-acquired Onavo, among others) pulling-in anonymous Asian…
In our monthly ETF chart roundup video, we take the temperature of the market in relation to its long-term trend lines. In addition, we profile several key international, commodity, and bond ETFs that are showing signs of opportunity and risk. The important themes to watch this month are large cap stocks, Europe, high yield bonds,…
ECRI’s WLI Growth Index improved marginally but has been in negative territory for 6 weeks. This index is forecasting a slight business cycle contraction in 1Q2015. Obviously the markets do not share ECRI’s view the business cycle is taking a downturn. Current ECRI WLI Level and Growth Index Here is this weeks update on ECRI’s…
U.S. Economic Data Continues to Disappoint. Audio Length: 00:28:19
For those who care what Bill Ackman has been thinking and doing lately, aside from colluding with and piggybacking on desperate for M&A “strategics” to go activist, and buying a boatload of calls in advance of announcing a material, market-moving position and in the process generating a 43.4% YTD return while the SEC sits on its hands….
Logical decision making is a crucial part of investing. But many investors often find themselves driven by emotion rather than logic. For example, the fear of losing, known as “loss aversion,” may tie an investor’s hands and lead him to make poor investment choices. And what about the “disposition effect,” where investors mistakenly hold onto…
Positioning Indicators at New Extremes We are updating our suite of sentiment data again, mainly because it is so fascinating that a historically rarely seen bullish consensus has emerged – after a rally that has taken the SPX up by slightly over 210% from its low. Admittedly, a slew of such records has occurred in the course…
Our core market health indicators are mostly improving this week, but at a very slow pace. None of them have improved enough to change any of our portfolio allocations. It isn’t likely that conditions will change by Friday, but I’ll make a post if they do. One positive sign is the NYSE cumulative Advance / Decline…
