Since 2010, the best scoring names in our weekly mid cap reports have outpaced the S&P 400 by an average 4.43% in the following year. The best performers from our list from 1 year ago are KNX up 77%, ILMN up 76%, IRF up 57%, LVLT up 55%, and AAP up 47%. The best mid…
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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is not planning to unveil any flagship Windows Phone at next year’s MWC conference, which will take place in Barcelona from March 2 to March 5. Prior to the big event, Microsoft will reportedly release a low-end smartphone that will be used primarily to tap into emerging markets. The new low-end smartphone, Lumia…
One of the winningest NFL coaches of all time, George Allen, was famous for saying that “the future is now.” It’s a powerful idea… and it’s one by which Mebane Faber clearly abides. You see, Faber’s firm, Cambria Investment Management, launched its brand-new (and powerfully disruptive) Global Asset Allocation ETF (GAA) this week. And at first glance,…
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After months of consistent predictions by the mainstream media that markets would only march higher, airtime is now dominated with one simple question: “How big will this correction be?” That is the question that I want to explore in more detail strictly from a technical viewpoint. Since the end of the Federal Reserve’s last round of “QE,” market…
The 8th largest economy on the entire planet is in a state of turmoil right now. The shocking collapse of the price of oil has hit a lot of countries really hard, but very few nations are as dependent on energy production as Russia is. Sales of oil and natural gas account for approximately two-thirds…
OVERNIGHT MARKETS AND NEWS March E-mini S&Ps (ESH15 +0.56%) this morning are up +0.61% ahead of the outcome of today’s FOMC meeting, while European stocks are down-0.92%, led by a decline in bank stocks on concern of their exposure to Russian debt. The Russian ruble has stabilized temporarily near 66 per dollar, above yesterday’s record low…
The plunge in the oil price is starting to make victims. Russia is the first to earn first page notoriety but others will follow. The collapse on the commodity markets is going to make more victims. The 2008 commodities price spike promoted a worldwide expansion of production capacity that is now starting to inundate the…
It’s no surprise that revenues came flooding in, but corporate taxes are even better than expected. I had been thinking $+10B would be good, we are currently at $+$20B through 15 days as 2014 has $78B of corporate tax deposits vs $58B in 2013. Offsetting the upside in corporate taxes…withheld taxes are down 4% ($4B)…
