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A Turnaround Story Failing To Produce Profits
Investors love a good turnaround, where a struggling firm restructures to achieve newfound profit growth. Too often, during the turnaround, investors overlook issues and send shares higher regardless of signs that the turnaround is not working as expected. They get caught up in the turnaround story and don’t realize until too late that the story […]
WTI Dips On Report OPEC-Shale Firms To Meet
WTI/RBOB prices limped lower after Reuters’ headlines reported OPEC officials will meet with U.S. shale firms at a dinner Monday in Houston, citing two unidentified industry sources. With US crude output surpassing Saudi’s and nearing Russia’s, OPEC is desperate for US Shale firms to stop ruining the production-cut-deal party. Reuters’ headlinesOPEC Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo plus other OPEC officials […]
Why Gold Is Still The Best Asset To Own
A review of today’s gold markets. Video Length: 00:10:37 Here are the articles used in today’s video: Gold Is The Best Safe Asset And Prices Will Be Higher In 18 Months – Crossborder Capital Gold Is Behaving Exactly ‘As Advertised’ – BlackRock
US Housing Is Becoming Unaffordable
We’ve discussed the price to income ratio of housing in a previous article. This gave us an idea of how expensive housing has become. We’ll discuss some of best points why real estate is too expensive and then provide the counterpoint explaining why housing isn’t in a bubble. Housing Isn’t Affordable In a May survey of those […]
Tech – Most Important Breakout Attempt Since 2000?
This 20-year snapshot of the Nasdaq above highlights that a solid upward trend remains in place. What caught our attention is this, the Nasdaq Composite index is attempting to break out of the top of three different rising channels at the same time at (4). If it breaks one, it breaks the other two! Bulls would love […]
Fitbit Stock: Implosion Addressed
Fitbit stock is cratering. Fitbit (FIT) delivered an all-around miss and 2018 outlook that fell well below expectations, and such FitBit stock is plummeting. Revenues of $571 million landed $18 million short of consensus, while adjusted net loss per share of -$0.02 fell two cents below the Street’s estimate. Units sold did not fall as sharply […]
Another Reason For The Low VIX
Since the Great Financial Crisis, and the unprecedented expansion of the balance sheet of many central banks, many investors think that officials are responsible for various distortions that they detect in the capital markets. The compressed nature of equity market volatility is one of those distortions. However, the decline in the S&P 500 volatility (VIX) […]
Does “Dow Theory” Confirm A Strong U.S. Economy?
Have you ever heard about the Dow Jones Transportation Average (DJT)? It is more loosely termed the “Dow Jones Transports” by stock traders. The index is a running average of the stock prices of 20 transportation corporations. This Dow creation is the most widely recognized gauge of the American transportation sector. Their grouping is also the oldest […]
Consumer Confidence Hits A 17-Year High
Tuesday morning’s report on Consumer Confidence for February handily topped already positive expectations, as the headline index came in at 130.8 (versus expectations for 126.0), which was the highest level since November 2000. While Consumer Confidence had a hard time getting above its long-term average for much of the current expansion, it has now been […]
