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Global Growth Is Slowing

Global Growth Is Slowing

Despite significant controversy surrounding the trade war between the US and China, which as the WSJ recently pointed out that China was the first to start, the economy will barely be affected by the recently announced tariffs. Currently, based on speculation and rhetoric, the trend appears to be towards negotiation rather than an outright trade war. Since […]
Finance Theory, Listed Equities, And Liquidity

Finance Theory, Listed Equities, And Liquidity

A recent paper from Robeco discusses whether a liquidity premium exists in the stock market. The authors, David Blitz, Jean-Paul van Brakel, and Milan Vidojevic, conclude that “the evidence for such a premium is, at best, weak.” Less politely, these authors refer to the whole notion of a liquidity premium as having been “challenged and […]
GBPUSD: Calling The Bounce Higher

GBPUSD: Calling The Bounce Higher

GBPUSD Elliott Wave short-term sequence from 3/01 low (1.3709) ended as a Leading Diagonal structure in Minor wave 1 at 1.4248 high in 5 waves. Down from there, the pair is correcting that cycle in Minor wave 2 pullback in 3, 7 or 11 swings before it resumes the upside. So far pair is showing 3 swings back from […]
Did Cambridge Analytica Debacle Kill Facebook’s Business Model?

Did Cambridge Analytica Debacle Kill Facebook’s Business Model?

Facebook (FB) has dominated the financial news cycle over the past weeks pursuant to its relationship with Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm with ties to Steve Bannon. Cambridge did digital work for Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Apparently, the firm obtained private Facebook data to target millions of its users for ads promoting Trump: […]
US Share Market Index Measuring The Degree Of Overbought Securities

US Share Market Index Measuring The Degree Of Overbought Securities

This Index is proprietary. It peaked at 12.55 during October 1919 as capital had flowed to the United States due to World War I. The Index then declined thereafter into the August 1921 bottom at 10.40. From this point, the Index rallied into October 1925 peaking at 13.16, fell back for 15 months bottoming again in […]
USDJPY Daily Analysis – Friday, March 30

USDJPY Daily Analysis – Friday, March 30

USDJPY remains in the uptrend from 104.63, the fall from 107.01 could be treated as consolidation for the uptrend. Support is at 105.75, as long as this level holds, the uptrend could be expected to resume and a breakout of 107.01 resistance could trigger another rise towards 108.00. On the downside, a breakdown below 105.75 […]
The “Future” Of Retirement Planning

The “Future” Of Retirement Planning

When we decide how much money we can spend in the present year of retirement we need to know not only how much spendable wealth we have today but our best guess of how much we will have in the future. Likewise, on the expense side of the ledger, we need to know not only […]
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                        Hecla Mining: Impressive Even Without Lucky Friday

E Hecla Mining: Impressive Even Without Lucky Friday

Hecla Mining (HL) is one of our favorite silver miners. The company recently made a decision to purchase Klondex Mining (KLDX). We believed that after the selloff the stock faced, there was an opportunity here. While we discussed the terms of the deal and what it meant for Hecla, we did not focus on performance […]
Tootsie Roll Industries: A Dividend King With Growth Problems

Tootsie Roll Industries: A Dividend King With Growth Problems

Tootsie Roll Industries (TR) has a dividend growth track record that few companies can rival. The company has increased its cash dividend for 52 consecutive and has paid continuous quarterly dividends for even longer. That puts the company among the elite Dividend Kings, a small group of stocks that have increased their payouts for at […]
Did Data Scandal Sink Facebook, The Social Networking Website?

Did Data Scandal Sink Facebook, The Social Networking Website?

Facebook has been on the news lately when the world discovered that more than 50 million users had their personal data breached with the downloading of Kogan’s Application, a data harvesting route, which due to the lax of structure of Facebook’s APIs at the time, allowed the foreign political consultancy firm to acquire information on […]