The Dow elected only the Daily Bearish on Monday not last Friday which was also a Weekly. Therefore, no Weekly Bearish has been elected leaving 17235 intact. Hence, a closing today above 17,758 today will be an indicator that higher highs are yet to be made. A closing above 17970 will signal a breakout to…
Canadian handset manufacturer BlackBerry Limited (BBRY – Analyst Report), reported third-quarter fiscal 2015 financial results wherein the bottom line outpaced the Zacks Consensus Estimate but the top line missed the same by a huge margin. Third Quarter Results in Detail GAAP loss from continuing operations in the third quarter of fiscal 2015 came in at $148 million or a…
I think this man must be worried. He has a huge weight on his shoulders. This is Thomas Jordan, the head of the Swiss National Bank. Mr. Jordan has excellent academic credentials. He’s a scholar, and a ‘lifer’ at the SNB: University of Berne, PHD Economics Department of Economics at Harvard University,three-year post-doctoral research. 1997…
Never in the history of the S&P 500 e-mini futures contract has so many contracts been traded at the market open… Thank you Johnny-5… Is everyone now long? Source: NanexLLC
Here is the news on the rumored buyout offer from the WSJ: SUZANNE KAPNER Updated Dec. 18, 2014 7:27 p.m. ET American Apparel Inc. has been approached by Irving Place Capital about a possible takeover, according to people familiar with the matter. Irving Place sent an expression of interest to the board of the Los Angeles…
The three-month average of the Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI) is expected to rebound to a +0.12 reading in the November update that’s scheduled for Monday (Dec. 22), based on The Capital Spectator’s median point forecast for several econometric estimates. The projection is moderately above the -0.01 reading for October, which reflected a fractionally…
RLJ Lodging Trust (NYSE:RLJ) is the Barchart Chart of the Day. The Hotel REIT has a Trend Spotter buy signal, a Weighted Alpha of 39.73+, gained 37.99% in the last year and paid a 3.56% dividend. The Chart of the Day is RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ). I found the hotel REIT by sorting the RLJ Lodging Trust list for…
In a recent post, I noted that actual non-residential fixed capital investment doesn’t show the pattern one would expect based on optimizing models at all. Ugh that sentence was convoluted and so is the post it describes. In fact, the puzzling pattern is really very simple. Non residential fixed capital investment (nrfinv) is high when interest…
You have to wonder why anyone would want to launch a domestic long/short equity fund these days. The S&P 500 Index has climbed 15 percent in the last 12 months. Buying a low-cost index tracker like the SPDR S&P 500 ETF(NYSE Arca: SPY) or the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (NYSE Arca: IVV) seems like a no-brainer. Despite…
Identiv (INVE) has been a company we have written a lot about over the last six months. Normally, we only trade small cap companies and rarely invest in them, but Identiv is one we believe is a worthy investment because of its undervaluation and growth potential. Well known activist investor David Callan first pointed out…
