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Home Depot Beats Q3 Earnings Estimates, Retains Outlook

Home Depot Beats Q3 Earnings Estimates, Retains Outlook

Driven by strong performance across all geographies due to a rise in transactions and strength in its core store activities, The Home Depot Inc. (HD – Analyst Report) reported an improvement in its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2014. The company’s adjusted earnings of $1.15 per share jumped nearly 21.1% from the year-ago quarter’s earnings of […]
US Housing Starts: October 2014 Preview

US Housing Starts: October 2014 Preview

Housing starts are expected to increase to an annual pace of 1.022 million in tomorrow’s update for October, according to the Capital Spectator’s median point forecast for several econometric estimates. The projection represents a modest increase over September’s 1.017 million. Compared with a trio of estimates based on recent surveys of economists, The Capital Spectator’s […]
Great Graphic: Woman Participation In The Labor Force

Great Graphic: Woman Participation In The Labor Force

The issue is that many countries want to grow faster.  Some structural changes are needed. Many countries are not making the most of what economists have become fond of calling “human capital”. Specifically, increasing the participation of women in the workforce can be potentially a critical development for countries such as Japan and Italy.   This Great Graphic was […]
King Dollar & Euro… A “Trend Change” Has To Happen

King Dollar & Euro… A “Trend Change” Has To Happen

CLICK ON CHART TO ENLARGE Is it time for the U.S. Dollar & Euro to change their current trend? My first thought would be “what trend?”  Many talk about the big moves in the U.S. Dollar and Euro and I just want to scratch my head and say, “where is the trend?” The above 4-pack […]
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                        Identiv’s Post Password Era Solutions Gaining Traction As Company Strengthens Its Financial Position

EC Identiv’s Post Password Era Solutions Gaining Traction As Company Strengthens Its Financial Position

TM editors’ note: This article discusses a microcap (<$100M market cap) stock. Such stocks can be easily manipulated; do your own due diligence. Lately, we have seen many headlines about how large companies are experiencing security breaches that have resulted in sensitive customer information being exposed to theft.  • In yet in another string of […]
Trendless Tuesday – Drifting Along On NO Volume

Trendless Tuesday – Drifting Along On NO Volume

What a crock!   Though we were more or less flat yesterday, check out the huge discrepancy in declining vs advancing stocks across the board.  It’s a stealth sell-off, the kind we often have before a major market plunge. This is what leads frustrated investors to wonder “How come the market is up but all my […]
9 Insiders Purchase Shares Of Neptune On Open Market

9 Insiders Purchase Shares Of Neptune On Open Market

After the market closed on Friday, November 14th, Canadian Insider disclosed that 9 insiders purchased shares of Neptune Technologies (NEPT) in the open market during the past week, including the Company’s interim CEO, Andre Godin, and new Chairman, Pierre Fitzgibbon. In the aggregate, insiders picked up 95,015 shares at an average cost of CAD $2.09 (summary below). […]
Urban Outfitters Earnings Miss, Namesake Brand Sales Fall

Urban Outfitters Earnings Miss, Namesake Brand Sales Fall

Urban Outfitters Inc. (URBN – Analyst Report) posted third-quarter fiscal 2015 results, wherein earnings of 35 cents a share missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 42 cents and also plunged 25.5% from 47 cents delivered in the year-ago quarter. Increased operating expenses, higher markdowns and fall in sales at its namesake brand were responsible for the debacle that […]
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                        Large Cap Best And Worst Report – November 18, 2014

E Large Cap Best And Worst Report – November 18, 2014

Since 2010, our top scoring weekly has outpaced the SPX by a median 376 bps in the following year. The best performers from our list one year ago are MU up 69%, RCL up  64%, FB up 63%, and AAPL up 57% Healthcare is the best large cap sector. The top large cap industry is […]