Commodity prices, including oil, are “crashing” according to the pundits and fears are building that this is a precursor to another stock market collapse. Are we on an irreversible path of repeating the bloodbath carnage of the 2008-2009 Great Recession? Fortunately for investors, markets move in cycles and the fundamental laws of supply and demand hold true…
Investment across the pond has become interesting all over again. With the Euro zone finally being saved from being broke and ‘Grexit’ being averted by an eleventh-hour debt deal, month-long anxieties over the fate of euro are running low. This has helped the European stock markets, which were in red for the last one month,…
EUR/USD The EUR/USD pair bounced off of the 1.08 level during the week, and then bounced to the 1.10 level. Because of this, we feel that the market continues to grind back and forth, and as a result it is going to be short-term traders market. If we can get above the 1.10 level, I…
Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) released its second quarter earnings for fiscal year 2015 on July 23, far exceeding analyst predictions. While Amazon was expected to post a loss of ($0.14) per share, the company in fact reported diluted earnings per share of $0.19. Amazon raked in $23.18 billion in net sales over the quarter marking a…
Banks in Greece reopened last Monday, and even with strict withdrawal limits in effect, it at least gave the appearance of a return to normalcy. But Greeks also woke up Monday to a painful new reality that should serve as a warning to Americans. Massive tax hikes went into effect, part of the austerity measures…
Italian luxury sportscar maker Ferrari is accelerating towards a stock market listing after its parent Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCAU) filed for an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange. After the listing, Fiat Chrysler’s subsidiary will be known as Ferrari NV. in New York. Ferrari IPO expected in early 2016 As detailed by ValueWalk, Fiat…
Debt securities will always be the natural choice for the risk-averse investor because this category of investment instruments provides regular income flow at low levels of risk. Income from regular dividends helps to ease the pain caused by plunging stock prices. When considering the safety of capital invested, municipal bond mutual funds are second only…
Welcome to edition 266 of Insider Weekends. Insider buying increased significantly last week with insiders buying $182.33 million of stock compared to $6.83 million in the week prior. Selling on the other hand decreased with insiders selling $472.75 million of stock last week compared to $522.48 million in the week prior. Most of the insider buying was driven by…
Right. Amazon (AMZN) is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Like millions of others, I use it practically every day. And it was nice to see that it made a profit—-thin as it was at 0.4% of sales—–in the second quarter. But the instantaneous re-rating of its market cap by $40 billion in the seconds after its earnings release had…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended last week with a close of 18,086.45, up 1.5% year-to-date and 1.4% below its all-time intraday high of 18,351.36 set on May 19. Helping the Dow 30 to return to positive territory for the year are seven components that have gains of more than 5% so far in the…
