Category Archive: Finance
We’ve Had ATMs For 50 Years. What’s Next?
The first ATM was born in London on June 27, 1967. With the rise of new technologies, its future is looking bleak. Flashback to 1967 Just 50 years ago, a machine was distributing banknotes for the first time. It was a real revolution at a time when individuals around the world had to go to […]
What Oil Bulls Are Missing: “The Oil Is Just Being Moved Elsewhere”
Dispensing his usual dose of optimistic crude oil buzzkill, Bloomberg energy strategist Julian Lee points out something troubling to both OPEC, and those who are hoping that the latest dip in oil will finally lead to a sharp rally. He writes that while at first glance, this year’s diminishing U.S. oil stockpiles appear to support the […]
4 Top-Ranked Diversified Bond Mutual Funds For Solid Returns
Mutual funds having significant exposure to diversified bonds are excellent choices for investors seeking steady returns with a relatively low level of risk. Investing in funds that maintain a portfolio of bonds issued across a wide range of market sectors, also reduces sector-specific risk. Moreover, investing in diversified bond funds is preferred to individual bond […]
Time To Stay Alert
It’s the start of a new week as well as the semi-official start of the second half of the year, so let’s get right to our objective review the key market models and indicators and see where things stand. To review, the primary goal of this weekly exercise is to remove any subjective notions I […]
E What Will Lead Stocks Higher?
Market Analysis A tool to help confirm the overall market trend is the Bullish Percent Index (BPI). The Bullish Index is a popular market “breadth” indicator used to gauge the internal strength/weakness of the market. Like many of the technical market internal indicators, it is used both to confirm a move in the market and […]
Investing: The Incredible Power Of Staying In The Now
A Simple And Powerful Concept Eckhart Tolle’s New York Times Best Seller The Power Of Now has sold over 3 million copies worldwide and has been translated into over 30 languages. The basic premise of the book is captured in the excerpt below: “Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the now. Nothing will ever […]
Commodities Halftime Report: Separating The Wheat From The Chaff
Of the 14 commodities we track closely at U.S. Global Investors, wheat rose to take the top spot for the first half of 2017, returning more than 25 percent. The grain was followed closely by palladium—used primarily in the production of catalytic converters—which gained 24 percent. To view our ever-popular, interactive Periodic Table of Commodity […]
Can Pepsi Keep With The Health Craze?
Pepsico, Inc. (PEP) will release FQ2’17 earnings before the market opens on Tuesday, July 11th. Pepsi has been on somewhat of a rollercoaster ride in terms of EPS and revenue, the company’s Q4 and Q1 showed a downward trend, with a bounceback in Q2; which is exactly what Estimize and the Street are predicting for this […]
Only Four People Can Move The Global Oil Market
I’ve got some data for you that is surprisingly bullish for oil. Even more surprising is what that data relates to, those bloated U.S. oil storage levels. The data I’m about to specifically shows you details the movement in amount of oil that the United States has in storage this year versus recent history. All […]
CloudHealth Is A Prospect For Acquisition
According to Gartner, more than $1 trillion in IT spending will be directly or indirectly affected by the shift to cloud by 2020, making cloud computing one of the most disruptive forces of IT spending since the early days of the digital age. CloudHealth’s cloud management platform is riding this wave of corporate cloud adoption. […]
