Oil and the Canadian dollar are hyped up once more on record speculative long bets. Downside now looms large on the slightest de-escalation in the Middle East amid slowing world demand and a secular increase in global inventories. Ed Morse, global head of commodities at Citigroup Research, and Bloomberg View columnist Gary Shilling, discuss the…
Growth stocks — and specifically large-cap tech stocks led by the FAANGs — have utterly crushed value stocks of late. It’s been the dominant theme of the past five years. Even the first quarter of 2018, which saw Facebook engulfed in a privacy scandal, saw growth outperform value. Sector Benchmark Qtr. Return Large-Cap Growth S&P…
JP Morgan’s CEO Jamie Dimon has released his annual letter to shareholders. It’s actually interesting reading, and although at 45 pages it’s a little long, it’s probably worth a quick peruse. But there are a couple of parts where I have to take issue with Jamie. From Yahoo finance: Dimon said it would be reasonable to…
According to a report by Market Research Future, the global data analytics market is estimated to grow 31% annually over the next four years to $159 billion by the year 2022. Billion Dollar Unicorn GoodData is a leading player in the market that is successfully leveraging the growth in Big Data to deliver cloud-based analytics products. GoodData’s Offerings…
Fastenal Company (FAST – Free Report) is a national wholesale distributor of industrial and construction supplies. It distributes its products through company-owned stores mostly located in North America. The company has gradually grown from a fastener distributor to a full-line industrial supplier. Investors should also note the recent earnings estimate revisions for FAST has moved north in the…
Paul Tudor Jones once said, “You look at every bear market and they’ve always basically occurred because of an uptick in inflation and an uptick in interest rates.” PTJ is right… Those of you familiar with our debt-cycle framework know that the Fed drives the business cycle by raising or lowering the cost of money (interest rates)….
Recap from March’s Picks Our Most Attractive Stocks (-4.5%) outperformed the S&P 500 (-5.3%) as a long portfolio last month. Most Attractive Large Cap stock Humana Inc. (HUM) gained 3%. Most Attractive Small Cap stock Fonar Corporation (FONR) was up 14%. Overall, 22 out of the 40 Most Attractive stocks outperformed the S&P 500 in…
GameStop Corp. (GME – Free Report) continues to see shrinking earnings due to changes in the video game industry. This Zacks Rank #5 (Strong Sell) is expected to see an 8% decline in earnings in fiscal 2018. GameStop operates over 7,200 stores in 14 countries. It operates in digital sales including Game Informer magazine and ThinkGeek. It also…
Oil prices soared after we are seeing the reduced risk of a trade war but increasing risk of heating up the real war in Syria. After conciliatory remarks by Chinese President Xi Jinping promising to announce plans to open China’s economy, including lowering tariffs for cars and enforcing the legal intellectual property and technology transfers…
We are now fast approaching a critical earnings season. Given the recent trade war volatility, investors are looking forward to a bullish earnings season to lift the markets. Luckily, hopes are high that companies are on track for a stellar earnings season with fundamentals remaining relatively strong. Indeed, earnings for companies in the S&P 500 are…
