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MX Gold Corp. – Expected Production

MX Gold Corp. – Expected Production

TM editors’ note: This article discusses a penny stock and/or microcap. Such stocks are easily manipulated; do your own careful due diligence. Resource investors have been watching the recent movements in the gold market with a mixture of trepidation and excitement as the precious metal continues to rise in value on a wave of political […]
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                        Crown Castle: The Highest-Yielding Stock Held By Bill Gates

EC Crown Castle: The Highest-Yielding Stock Held By Bill Gates

Crown Castle (CCI) only began paying dividends in 2014, but the company currently offers income investors a dividend yield that’s nearly twice as high as the market’s with 7% to 8% annual dividend growth potential. More importantly, Crown Castle has an attractive business model with substantial recurring revenue, excellent free cash flow generation, substantial barriers […]
Hewlett Packard Has A Big Amazon Problem

Hewlett Packard Has A Big Amazon Problem

I joined CNBC this evening to chat about Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) latest earnings announcement. Hewlett Packard Enterprise investors got some much-needed good news today, as the company beat third quarter estimates. Shares are up over 4% after hours. Earnings came in at 31 cents per share, better than the 26 cents expected by analysts. Revenue also beat […]
Ride Out The VIX Spike With These 5 Low Beta Stocks

Ride Out The VIX Spike With These 5 Low Beta Stocks

On Tuesday afternoon, the CBOE Volatility Index surged more than 38% to hit 14. Driving the ascent of the VIX was a trifecta of factors. While tensions over North Korea continued to escalate, markets were visited by familiar concerns over a policy paralysis in Washington. Meanwhile, news that a new category 5 hurricane, Irma, has […]
ISM Services Rises Less Than Expected

ISM Services Rises Less Than Expected

After last week’s ISM Manufacturing report came in at a six-plus year high, the current environment for the larger services sector was not nearly as strong. While Wednesday’s release of the ISM Non-Manufacturing report for the month of August did improve to 55.3 relative to July’s reading of 53.9, the rebound was not as strong […]
Oil Drillers – Attempting Bullish Breakout

Oil Drillers – Attempting Bullish Breakout

Oil Drillers have had little to smile about over the past years. Could this trend be about to end? A pattern is in play that highlights a counter trend rally could be near. Below looks at the Oil Drillers (XOP)/ S&P 500 Ratio over the past couple of years. The ratio could be creating a double […]
Stanley Fischer Resigns As Fed Vice-Chair

Stanley Fischer Resigns As Fed Vice-Chair

Developing… Ok, and now Fischer is resigning… FED VICE CHAIRMAN FISCHER RESIGNS, EFFECTIVE MID-OCTOBER He’s citing “personal reasons.” “Stan’s keen insights, grounded in a lifetime of exemplary scholarship and public service, contributed invaluably to our monetary policy deliberations,” Yellen says. “He represented the Board internationally with distinction and led our efforts to foster financial stability.” […]
A Look At NYSE Margin Debt And The Market – Wednesday, September 6

A Look At NYSE Margin Debt And The Market – Wednesday, September 6

Note: The NYSE has released new data for margin debt, now available through July. The New York Stock Exchange publishes end-of-month data for margin debt on the NYX data website, where we can also find historical data back to 1959. Let’s examine the numbers and study the relationship between margin debt and the market, using the S&P […]
In One Sense, This Company’s Huge Success Makes No Sense

In One Sense, This Company’s Huge Success Makes No Sense

TM editors’ note: This article discusses a penny stock and/or microcap. Such stocks are easily manipulated; do your own careful due diligence. In one sense, this makes NO sense: Aveda Transport and Energy Services (AVE-TSX)(PHNHF) hit record revenue (US$52 million) and record positive cash flow (just over $5 million) this last quarter, Q2 17. I […]
Why Oil Prices Can’t Bounce Very High; Expect Deflation Instead

Why Oil Prices Can’t Bounce Very High; Expect Deflation Instead

Economists have given us a model of how prices and quantities of goods are supposed to interact. Unfortunately, this model is woefully inadequate. It sort of works, until it doesn’t. If there is too little a product, higher prices and substitution are supposed to fix the problem. If there is too much, prices are supposed […]