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Stocks Going Ex Dividend In September 2024
Image Source: PixabayThe following is a short list of some of the many stocks going ex-dividend during the next month, which can be helpful for traders and investors interested in the stock trading technique known as “Buying Dividends” or “Dividend Capture.” This strategy involves purchasing stocks before the ex dividend date and selling them shortly after the ex-date […]
More On The Preliminary Benchmark In Context
Image Source: UnsplashRecall the preliminary benchmark deducted 818K from the March NFP reading.Figure 1: Level of nonfarm payroll employment from CES (blue), implied from CES preliminary benchmark (red), from Philadelphia early benchmark (tan), Goldman Sachs estimate of preliminary revision (light blue). Early benchmark calculated using ratio of sum-of-states early benchmark to sum-of-states. Source: BLS via FRED, BLS, Philadelphia Fed, […]
Big AI News
Photo by Steve Johnson on UnsplashAccording to multiple sources (including The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg), Apple (AAPL), NVIDIA (NVDA), and Microsoft (MSFT) are in discussions to participate in a new funding round (led by Thrive Capital) that would value OpenAI at over $100 billion. The exact amounts that Apple, Nvidia, and Microsoft might invest have not yet been […]
Drowning In Data Soup: Why Factor Investing Cannot Be Scientific
Image Source: Pexels The Nature of Financial Data Late last year, Marcos M. López de Prado, a hedge fund manager and professor who has pioneered machine learning in finance and who is currently global head of quantitative research and development at one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds, published a monograph called Causal Factor Investing: Can […]
Friday Facts: Will The Growth Of Passive Equity Products Start To Hurt Active Managers?
Image Source: PixabayAt the headline level, the European fund industry suffered overall estimated net outflows of €42.9 bn from equity products between January 1, 2022, and June 30, 2024. Even as this number does not sound too bad, taking the market turmoil over the course of the year 2022 into consideration, a view on the flows […]
SPDR ETF Report For Friday, Aug 30
Image Source: PixabayIn this video, Ira Epstein reviews the day’s trading in various SPDR-ETF markets for the trading day that ended, Friday, August 30.Video Length: 00:18:25More By This Author:Financial Markets Report For Friday, Aug 30Metal Markets Report For Thursday, Aug 29SPDR ETF Report For Thursday, Aug 29
The Rest Of The Story
Image Source: PixabayGold is telling its story. Reuters: Gold prices gained around 1% on Thursday, fueled by strong expectations of a Federal Reserve rate cut in September with investors focusing on U.S. inflation data for further insights on the potential size of the cut. Spot gold rose 0.9% to $2,524.45 per ounce. On the surface, it is […]
Explaining The Performance Of Low-priced Stocks: The Penny Stock Anomaly
Image Source: PixabayIt is well documented in the literature that retail investors have an irrational preference (from a traditional finance perspective) for investing in high-volatility stocks which have lottery-like distributions—those that exhibit positive skewness and excess kurtosis (fat tails). Studies, such as the 2023 papers “Lottery Preference and Anomalies” and “Do the Rich Gamble in the Stock Market? Low Risk […]
A September Sell-Off?: Gold Wrap For Friday, Aug 30
Image Source: PixabayGold closed the week at $2,502 (down $10 since last week) and silver at $28.83 (down about $1). This episode we discuss recent price action, the historic volatility in September and October, and economic weakness from Germany to China.OTHER TOPICS DISCUSSED US Consumer confidence reaches 6-month high at 103.3 Q2 GDP numbers revised upward […]
Three Big Fish That Got Away
Image Source: UnsplashBelow are three stocks that have these things in common: (a) I identified them all as bearish candidates when they were vastly more expensive (b) I bought puts on them (c) I sold the puts not long afterward, probably at a loss (d) I missed out on multi-hundred-percent gains on CONSERVATIVE (many months out, in the money) put options. What a dope!More By This […]
