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NextEra Energy: Diversified Utility, Dividend Achiever

NextEra Energy: Diversified Utility, Dividend Achiever

NextEra Energy (NEE) isn’t your run-of-the-mill utility. It has a heavy focus on renewable energy like wind, nuclear, and solar. It generates more than $16 billion of revenue, and has nearly 46,000 megawatts of generating capacity. It has more than 14,000 employees in 30 U.S. states and Canada. NextEra is also an uncommon stock in […]
The 10-Year Bond Hits Bill Gross’s 2.60% Target

The 10-Year Bond Hits Bill Gross’s 2.60% Target

We are in an interesting time for equity investing because productivity is stuck in a rut, yet stocks are levitating higher. Since productivity growth drives economic growth, there’s no way stocks can rally in the long-term without it. I think both will correct as productivity growth will likely revert to the mean, possibly due to […]
La Grande Image

La Grande Image

Hey, guess what – – – I’m bearish on equities. Surprise, surprise, surprise! Allow me to share a few charts to support my point of view. First up is the Russell 2000, which has broken the midline of its channel. It seems to me a trek down to the supporting (lower) trendline is the next […]
No Paradox, Economy To Debt To Assets

No Paradox, Economy To Debt To Assets

It is surely one of the primary reasons why many if not most people have so much trouble accepting the trouble the economy is in. With record high stock prices leading to record levels of household net worth, it seems utterly inconsistent to claim those facts against a US economic depression. Weakness might be more […]
Successful And Unsuccessful Strategies

Successful And Unsuccessful Strategies

Markets don’t behave the same way now that they did 10 or 15 years ago. Buying breakouts or waiting for confirmation of a trend change, these days, is usually a nonsensical strategy. The strategy that is more successful these days is to buy bottoms – using a couple of different techniques. Video Length – 00:09:12
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                        Rare And Rapid Shift In This Signal

FV Rare And Rapid Shift In This Signal

Indicator Flips (1982-2017) Video Length – 00:29:09
February Jobs Report

February Jobs Report

Podcast: Play in new window | Play in new window (Duration: 13:15 — 7.6MB) DOW + 44 = 20,902 SPX + 7 = 2372 NAS + 22 = 5861 RUT + 5 = 1365 10 Y – .02 = 2.58% OIL – .84 = 48.44 GOLD + 3.70 = 1205.50 The US added 235,000 new jobs in February, and the unemployment […]
5 Junior Miners Trading At Discounts To Their Peers

5 Junior Miners Trading At Discounts To Their Peers

TM editors’ note: This article discusses one or more penny stocks and/or microcaps. Such stocks are easily manipulated; do your own careful due diligence. The Price-to-NAV multiple shows investors how expensive a stock is compared to its Net Asset Value, and can be compared to its industry peers. Today, we have shortlisted junior miners to […]
Telefonica SA – Chart Of The Day

Telefonica SA – Chart Of The Day

The Chart of the Day belongs to Telefonica SA (TEF). I found the telephonic communications stock by using Barchart to sort Today’s Top Stock to Own list first for the most frequent number of new highs in he last month then again for technical buy signal of 80% or better. Since the Trend Spotter signaled a buy on 12/30 the stock […]
SPX: New Bull Market Territory Awaits

SPX: New Bull Market Territory Awaits

In my post of February 9th, I mentioned the importance of the World Market Index breaking, and holding above, 1750, as a potential signal of support for world equities, in the longer term, including that of the S&P 500 Index (SPX). Since then, the World Market Index has, indeed, broken above and dipped back below 1750 several times, and closed out this week (March 10th) just above […]