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B&G Foods (BGS): A High Yield Stock With Double-Digit Dividend Growth

B&G Foods (BGS): A High Yield Stock With Double-Digit Dividend Growth

Food stocks can often make excellent long-term dividend growth investments, thanks to the highly defensive nature of their businesses. After all, everyone has to eat no matter what the economy or interest rates are doing. This is why many well-known food blue chips are among the list of dividend aristocrats and dividend kings, which have track records of […]
Forex Ranking, Rating And Score For Week 23 / 2017

Forex Ranking, Rating And Score For Week 23 / 2017

The Top 10 of the Ranking and Rating list for the coming week shows the following stronger currencies being well represented for going long: the CHF(4X) followed by the EUR(2X). The weaker currencies are the AUD(4X) followed by the CAD(3X) followed. A nice combination for coming week may be e.g: AUD/CHF with the EUR/CAD CAD/CHF with […]
June 2017 Stock Considerations

June 2017 Stock Considerations

Where is 2017 going? I can’t believe we’re already knocking on the door of summer. I guess the older we get the faster time seems to fly by. That point just illustrates to me the importance of staying invested in the market no matter what crazy headlines are being written nor what events transpire around […]
Gamma Is Why Markets Are Exploding To The Upside

Gamma Is Why Markets Are Exploding To The Upside

Stocks and bonds explode higher together on Friday’s disappointing jobs report. In this weekend’s crucial market update we look at how inefficiencies in the market are causing the markets to explode higher. Watch this video as I share the opportunities and pitfalls to watch out for in the upcoming week.
Weak Reference Rate, Falling HIBOR Could Lead To Pullback In Yuan

Weak Reference Rate, Falling HIBOR Could Lead To Pullback In Yuan

Fundamental Forecast for CNH: Neutral Yuan Soared to 7-Month High – What’s Next? Politics Drives Dollar-Yuan Reversal, What Gets Risk Back on Track? The USD/CNH broke Yuan Soared to 7-Month High – What’s Next? (resistance for the Yuan) this week, amid tightened Yuan liquidity in the offshore market. HIBOR O/N, Yuan’s borrowing cost in Hong Kong’s interbank market, soared to […]
May Jobs Report: Nothing More Nor Less Than A Decent Late Cycle Report

May Jobs Report: Nothing More Nor Less Than A Decent Late Cycle Report

HEADLINES: +138,000 jobs added U3 unemployment rate down -0.1% from 4.4% to 4.3% U6 underemployment rate down -0.2% from 8.6% to 8.4% Here are the headlines on wages and the chronic heightened underemployment: Wages and participation rates Not in Labor Force, but Want a Job Now: down -146,000 from 5.707 million to 5.561 million Part […]
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                        Market Briefing For Monday, June 5

E Market Briefing For Monday, June 5

Dipping back from rarefied air the market has probed, during weeks of a grind that finally made it by ‘grinding’ gradually then probing into the historic stratospheric levels we are now at, remains a prospect ahead of mid-month. However, first we have to address the reactions from the FOMC meeting just ahead, which handily could […]
BP: High-Quality Assets Pumping Out Growth And A 6.7% Dividend Yield

BP: High-Quality Assets Pumping Out Growth And A 6.7% Dividend Yield

When most investors think of buying oil stocks, the U.S. majors like Exxon Mobil (XOM) and Chevron (CVX) typically come to mind. And while Exxon Mobil and Chevron are both Dividend Aristocrats with great balance sheets, investors can earn significantly higher dividends by looking overseas. For example, U.K. based energy giant BP (BP) has a 6.7% dividend […]
Forex Strength And Comparison For Week 23 / 2017

Forex Strength And Comparison For Week 23 / 2017

In the Currency Strength table, the CHF was the strongest currency while the AUD was the weakest. There were no significant changes last week with the highest difference of just 2 points compared to last week. This was for the GBP gaining 2 points. The other currencies remained around the same level of last week with a maximum change in […]
Why Macron Should Not (And Cannot) Follow The German Model

Why Macron Should Not (And Cannot) Follow The German Model

The Economist‘s analysis of Germany’s job market miracle of the past ten years offered in “What the German economic model can teach Emmanuel Macron” is more balanced than the usual accounts one hears in Germany itself. Germans are in love with the idea that structural reform of their labor market and persistent budgetary austerity were […]