Category Archive: Finance
Moving Averages: Month – End Preview – Wednesday, August 30
Here is an advance preview of the monthly moving averages we track after the close of the last business day of the month. At this point, before the close on the last day of the month, all three S&P 500 strategies are signaling “invested” — unchanged from last month’s signal. Four of the five Ivy […]
Capital Southwest Announces Quarterly Dividend Of $0.24 Per Share
DALLAS, Aug. 30, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Capital Southwest Corporation (“Capital Southwest” or the “Company”); (Nasdaq:CSWC) today announced its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly dividend of $0.24 per share for the quarter ended September 30, 2017. The Company’s dividend will be payable as follows: September 30, 2017 Quarterly Dividend Amount Per Share: […]
Trican Well Service: Well Positioned For A Strong Finish To 2017
TM editors’ note: This article discusses a penny stock and/or microcap. Such stocks are easily manipulated; do your own careful due diligence. Written by SmallCappower.com Trican Well Service Ltd. (TOLWF) Continued demand for fracturing and other services coupled with scale post its merger with Canyon Services have resulted in a strong 2Q17 performance, with revenue up […]
CAI International – Chart Of The Day
The Chart of the Day belongs to CAI International (CAI). I found the intermodal container stock by using Barchart to sort today’s All Time High list first by the highest Weighted Alpha, then again by technical buy signals of 80% or more. Since the Trend Spotter signaled a buy on 8/14 the stock gained 9.06%. CAI International, INC. is one of […]
A Small Place To Start
Alice M. Rivlin was Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve during its absolute apex. Nominated to that position in 1996, she stayed as number two to Alan Greenspan until 1999. During those years the central bank, and its central bankers, would become greatly admired for what was widely perceived as pure technocratic skill. The extended […]
China: Q2 Early Look Brief
Written by Leland Miller and the staff at China Beige Book Executive Overview So far, 2017 has played out as a best-case scenario for China’s economy. The remarkable absence of both domestic (more foolish financial policies) and foreign (Trump tariffs) shocks have created the stable environment corporates need to outperform most expectations, including ours. This fortuitous run […]
Market Correlations Become Chaos
Video length: 00:10:15 Stocks rally today as GDP numbers revised higher than expected and ADP employment numbers were positive. In tonight’s video we look at market correlations. With all of the positive news market correlations are still broken and volatility remains elevated. Something has to give. Watch tonight’s video market update to find out what […]
A Closer Look At Today’s ADP Employment Report
In this morning’s ADP employment report we got the August estimate of 237K new nonfarm private employment jobs from ADP, an increase over July’s 201K, which was an upward revision of 23K. The popular spin on this indicator is as a preview to the monthly jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But the ADP report includes […]
The Slowdown In Lending May Become Problematic For Stock Investors
In the current business cycle, the Treasury bond yield curve has rarely been flatter. The spread between 30s and 2s is a paltry 1.4% and the spread between 10s and 2s is a meager 0.8%. Historically, the yield curve has been close to flawless as an expansion-contraction indicator. When a flattening curve dipped below ‘zero,’ […]
Market Talk – Wednesday, August 30
Asia benefited from the afternoon bounce in the US markets, with all core performing across the board. The Hang Seng probably saw large caps perform on the back of further gains made in the Yuan’s appreciation. Shanghai finished small down but again in extremely light summer volume. The Nikkei regained much of yesterdays loss but […]
