Category Archive: Entertainment
Astro-Med Reports Strong Results For Third Quarter Fiscal 2015; Board Of Directors Declares Regular Cash Dividend
Net Sales of $23.1 Million, Up 27.3% from Q3 FY 2014 Gross Margin of 43.9%, Up 340 Basis Points from Q3 FY 2014 Operating Margin of 11.1%, Up 460 Basis Points from Q3 FY 2014 Diluted EPS of $0.20, Up from $0.14 in Q3 FY 2014 Company Completes Integration of Miltope Acquisition WEST WARWICK, R.I.–(BUSINESS […]
What, Me Worry Wednesday – Thanksgiving Edition
Let’s not worry. We’re in the midst of a fantastic bull run so why ruin it with rational thinking? Barry Ritholtz used to be a rational guy but now he shills for Bloomberg (#8 on the Forbes 400 with $35Bn) and posts things like “Current Dow rally below average in both duration and magnitude” in […]
Dow Theory “Breakouts” To Be Thankful For
CLICK ON CHART TO ENLARGE What are you “Thankful For?” This is a great time of year to count our blessings and become more aware of things we should be thankful for. I am thankful for many things, too many to list and bore you with right now. When it comes to Thank You’s […]
Estimating US Recession Risk Isn’t Getting Any Easier
Clarity is a virtue when it comes to the business cycle. It’s also unusual. The US is an exception, or at least it has been, according to Scott Sumner, an economist at Bentley University and a prolific blogger on macro matters. “The US has a really weird economy,” he writes. “All our recessions are 100% clear-cut. Either […]
E Mid Cap Best And Worst Report – November 26, 2014
Since 2010, the best scoring names in our weekly mid cap reports have outpaced the S&P 400 by a median 4.07% in the following year. The best performers from our list from 1 year ago are ILMN up 87%, KNX up 81%, LVLT up 66%, ALXN up 58%, and AMED up 54%. The best mid […]
Morning Call For November 26, 2014
OVERNIGHT MARKETS AND NEWS December E-mini S&Ps (ESZ14 +0.07%) this morning are up +0.11% and European stocks are up +0.27% ahead of U.S. data on Oct personal spending and Oct durable goods orders. EUR/USD is weaker and the yields on European government bonds fell to record lows on the prospects of further easing by the ECB. […]
“Failed” Bund Auction At Record Low Yield And All Other Key Overnight Events
While there has been no global economic outlook cut today, or no further pre-revision hints of “decoupling” by the apartchiks at the US Bureau of Economic Analysis, both European and US equities are pointing at a higher open, because – you guessed it – there were more “suggestions” of “imminent” QE by a central bank, […]
Moving Averages: Month-End Preview
Here is a preview of the monthly moving averages I track after the close of the last business day of the month. All three S&P 500 strategies are now signaling “invested” — unchanged from last month. Two of the five of the Ivy Portfolio ETFs, the Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US ETF (VEU) and the PowerShares […]
Dollar Is Firm But Loses Momentum Against The Yen
The capital markets are mostly quiet, amid a light news stream, and ahead of three key events in the coming days, with US markets closed tomorrow and light participation expected on Friday. These events are tomorrow’s OPEC meeting, the flash euro area inflation reading on Friday, and month-end portfolio and hedge adjustments. The odds of […]
EUR/USD Forex Signal For November 26, 2014
EUR/USD Signal Update Yesterday’s signals were not triggered and expired as although the price did reach 1.2442 during the London session, there was no bearish price action there on the H1 chart. Today’s EUR/USD Signals Risk 0.75% Trades must be made before 5pm London time. Short Trade 1 Go short after bearish price action on the […]
