Are Coca-Cola Shares Still Worth Owning?
It is the world’s largest beverage company, Warren Buffett’s most famous investment (and refreshment), and one of the most valuable and well-known consumer brands in the entire world. It is a brand that has existed for over 125 years, with an illustrious history that has built equity with generations of consumers. It is a brand […]
Inflation Correlations And China’s Brief, Disappointing Porcine Nightmare
Two years ago, China was gripped by what was described as an epic pig problem. For most Chinese people, pork is a main staple so rapidly rising pig prices could have presented a serious challenge to an economy already at that time besieged by massive negative forces. It was another headache officials in that country […]
Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc. Prices Series D Convertible Preferred Stock Follow-On Offering
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Jan. 11, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc. (Nasdaq:WHLR) (“Wheeler” or the “Company”), a company specializing in owning, acquiring, financing, developing, renovating, leasing and managing income-producing assets, such as community centers, neighborhood centers, strip centers and free-standing retail properties, announced today the pricing of a public offering and sale of […]
Why Focus On Risk? Because It’s Good For You
My end of the year newsletter generated the following comment at Seeking Alpha: “I look at last year’s numbers and I feel all warm and content. I read articles like this and all that comfort disappears like it was never there. Reading this author is like taking your medicine, it’s good for your investing prowess, but it […]
Weekly Unemployment Claims: Up 11K, Worse Than Forecast
Here is the opening statement from the Department of Labor: In the week ending January 6, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 261,000, an increase of 11,000 from the previous week’s unrevised level of 250,000. The 4-week moving average was 250,750, an increase of 9,000 from the previous week’s unrevised average of […]
Proof That Bonds Are Moving More Because Of The Fed Than China
2018 has started with a lot of angst about bond yields. And there is some cause to be concerned. But this owes to an economy that is growing more briskly and to the Fed that has been and probably will be more hawkish than you think. When thinking about people trying to shoehorn a China explanation into what’s […]
January 2018 Initial Unemployment Claims Rolling Again Worsens
Hurricanes continue to impact claims taking procedures in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The market expectations for weekly initial unemployment claims (from Bloomberg / Econoday) were 240 K to 270 K (consensus 245,000), and the Department of Labor reported 261,000 new claims. The more important (because of the volatility in the weekly reported claims […]
The Ideal Strategy For The Part Time Investor: Buy & Hold
Buy and hold real estate strategies have proven — time and time again — that they belong in every investor’s portfolio, not excluding the average part time investor. Every investor, for that matter, could benefit from owning a rental property or two of their own; provided it’s cash flowing (making more money than it costs to […]
EUR/USD And GBP/USD Forecast – Thursday, Jan 11
EUR/USD The EUR/USD pair rallied significantly during the trading session on Wednesday, slicing through the 1.20 level at one point. However, we get back quite a bit of the gains, and ended up forming a bit of a shooting star. The shooting star show signs of exhaustion, and I think that the market could go […]
Back To Reality For Individual Investors
After three straight weeks where bullish sentiment topped 50% in the weekly AAII poll, it was back to reality this week. Bullish sentiment dropped in a big way this week, falling from 59.8% back to below 50% to 48.7%. That was the largest weekly decline since November. It’s hard to imagine what would have caused such a […]
