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13 Firms Going Ex-Dividend Next Week, Including CVS Health, Clorox And Lowe’s
There are several well known large cap stocks going ex-dividend next week including the following Top 100 Dividend Stock: CVS Health Corp. Ex-dividend dates are important to dividend investors because one must own a stock on its ex-dividend date in order to be eligible to receive its next dividend. Any stock ranked by our team as a Top 100 […]
RecessionAlert Weekly Leading Index Update – Friday, October 20
The latest index reading came in at 22.2, up from 20.3 the previous week. RecessionAlert has launched an alternative to ECRI’s Weekly Leading Index Growth indicator (WLIg). The Weekly Leading Economic Index (WLEI) uses fifty different time series from these categories: Corporate Bond Composite, Treasury Bond Composite, Stock Market Composite, Labor Market Composite, Credit Market Composite. RecessionAlert emphasizes […]
The Limits To Trusting The Robots
After another day on Thursday of stocks starting to look mildly tired – but only mildly – only to rally back to a new closing high, it hardly seems unusual anymore. I have to keep pinching myself, reminding myself that this is historically abnormal. Actually, very abnormal. If the S&P 500 Total Return Index ends […]
September 2017 Headline Existing Home Growth Up?
The headline existing home sales growth slowed with the authors saying “Sales activity likely would have been somewhat stronger if not for the fact that parts of Texas and South Florida – hit by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma – saw temporary, but notable declines”. Our analysis of the unadjusted data strongly disagrees with the headline […]
When Backtests Fail
Let’s say you’re building a diversified portfolio and want to include European high yield bonds in the mix. What are you plugging in for an estimated return today? If you’re like most investors, you’ll look to a backtest to provide the answer, asking the following question: what have the returns been historically? With data going […]
Silver Stocks Comatose
The silver miners’ stocks have mostly drifted sideways this year, looking vexingly comatose. Such dull price action repels speculators and investors, so they’ve largely abandoned this lackluster sector. That weak trader participation has led to silver stocks’ responsiveness to silver price moves decaying. What can shock silver stocks out of their zombified stupor? And how […]
Bitcoin Extends To Fresh Record Highs
Now that the high earlier in the week has been taken-out, after completing a 3-wave (ABC ) correction, it appears Bitcoins now forming the final (5th-wave) portion of a larger 5-wave structure. The 1st wave equality projection target is a few hundred points higher from current levels, in which price-action has seemingly respected the psychological 6000 mark as temporary resistance. If Bitcoin can […]
E Investing In A Rapidly Changing Diamond Industry
Diamonds are called “a woman’s best friend”. They can be used to show off your incredible wealth, cut granite, or launder money if you’re an African warlord. In any case, diamonds are the physical representation of opulence, and the industry is going through a period of change that provides investors with huge opportunities. The diamond […]
AIG Reversal
One of the most catastrophic drops to take place during the days of the financial crisis (sigh – – those were the days) was AIG International. Of course, the executives didn’t suffer for it – they made hundreds of millions of dollars and were paid huge bonuses after their crimes were discovered, thanks to the US Government. Even so, […]
Junk Bond Managers Are Now Buying Equities
Stocks are so hot that junk bond managers went into equity markets. Bloomberg’s Lisa Abramowicz explained the conditioning that’s led to this – simply that the performance rankings of corporate debt funds shows that those which are taking the most risk have, not surprisingly, booked the best performance in 2017. While this involved purchasing lower-rated credit instruments, in […]
