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The Myths Of Stocks For The Long Run – Part IV

The Myths Of Stocks For The Long Run – Part IV

<< Read More: The Myths Of Stocks For The Long Run – Part III << Read More: The Myths Of Stocks For The Long Run – Part II << Read More: The Myths Of Stocks For The Long Run – Part I The Math Of Loss The “mantra” of “this time is different” is always uttered during ebullient periods in the stock […]
Hew Home Sales Rebound In The South As Home Prices Plunge To 13-Month Lows

Hew Home Sales Rebound In The South As Home Prices Plunge To 13-Month Lows

Following major disappointment in exiting-home-sales, May New Home Sales exploded higher, up 6.7% MoM (smashing expectations of 0.8% gain) helped by a major downward revision to April. New home sales were flat or negative in 3 of 4 regions: Northeast: -10%, Midwest: 0%, West: -8.7%, but South soared from 347K to 409K annualized, a 17.9% surge… […]
BTC/USD And BTC/JPY Forecast – Monday, June 25

BTC/USD And BTC/JPY Forecast – Monday, June 25

BTC/USD Bitcoin markets lost 10% during the trading session on Friday, reaching down towards the $6000 level, an area that I have been talking about for some time. I think at this point, it’s become obvious that the market will eventually break down below that level, the question now is whether or not it’s going […]
Pfizer Innovates, & Collaborates For Health

Pfizer Innovates, & Collaborates For Health

Every New York stock exchange trading day I’m posting a daily dividend stock or fund review. I’ll share the three chief qualities of just one equity or fund that could be selected for a dividend stock portfolio I’ve named the Safari to Sweet Success. This week the portfolio I’m building (my Safari To Sweet Success […]
Policy Interventions Don’t Eliminate Bear Markets Nor Conjure Productivity

Policy Interventions Don’t Eliminate Bear Markets Nor Conjure Productivity

China’s Shanghai stock index closed last week down 4% and nearly 19% since January 26 even as the government continues with a barrage of ongoing confidence suasion efforts,see Beijing paddles as bear market threatens: The so-called “national team,” an assortment of government-backed investment funds that often acts to stabilize the market, still owns nearly half a […]
Keeping It Together

Keeping It Together

All is well in OPEC land. OPEC kept it together with a unanimous deal even, though there is still disagreement on what the deal in Vienna means. Post OPEC, we have a rising dollar on China/U.S. trade tensions and a major Canadian oil sands outage that will buoy U.S. prices. The market soared on Friday as it […]
Early Signs Of Large-Cap Fatigue Spreading To Small-Caps, Tech

Early Signs Of Large-Cap Fatigue Spreading To Small-Caps, Tech

Signs of fatigue are showing up in US equities. It began with large-caps, and now there are early signs it is spreading to small-caps as well as tech. The small-cap switch was turned on right after Donald Trump was elected US president in November 2016. Since November 8 that year, the Russell 2000 small cap […]
Sensex Ends 219 Points Lower; Energy And Auto Stocks Witness Selling

Sensex Ends 219 Points Lower; Energy And Auto Stocks Witness Selling

After witnessing volatile trades during the day, Indian share markets ended their session on a negative note. Losses were largely seen in the oil & gas sector, auto sector and capital goods sector, while IT stocks ended the day higher. At the closing bell, the BSE Sensex stood lower by 219 points (down 0.6%) and the NSE Nifty closed lower by 59 points (down 0.6%). The BSE Mid […]
From Unicorn To Unicorpse: Domo’s Valuation Slashed Ahead Of IPO

From Unicorn To Unicorpse: Domo’s Valuation Slashed Ahead Of IPO

Data analytics company Domo has recently filed to go public on the Nasdaq under the ticker DOMO. As a private company, it had raised close to $700 million and was valued at over $2 billion, qualifying it as a Billion Dollar Unicorn. But its recent filing for the IPO now values it at $510 million.  Domo’s […]
Bears Getting Louder? Just Defer To The Charts

Bears Getting Louder? Just Defer To The Charts

I hear the screams of the bears getting louder these days. With each and every down session (or two), the narrative of ‘a bear market is coming’ without much-hardened proof of such an event coming down. Oh sure, some day there will be a recession as we move back into a normal ‘boom/bust’ cycle, but […]