Cement Companies to Face the Heat from Rising Raw Material Prices Power & fuel cost which comprise of around 17-19% of the overall net revenues of cement companies are on the rise. This could possibly dent the operating margins of cement companies. Fuel costs would increase mainly on the back of rise in import duties […]

Written by Don Steinbrugge Each year, Agecroft Partners predicts the top hedge fund industry trends stemming from our contact with more than two thousand institutional investors and hundreds of hedge fund organizations. The hedge fund industry is dynamic, and participants are best served by anticipating, rather than reacting to, change. Below are Agecroft’s 9th annual predictions for the biggest […]

Dividend investing is a challenging sport. Trying to find the market’s best income stocks is a complicated process not least because those stocks with the highest yields, tend to produce the worst long-term returns. The best research on this can be found in the research paper High Yield, Low Payout, compiled by Credit Suisse analysts Pankaj N. […]

Today Doc and I dive into the charts for GLD. We start with the daily chart, move to the weekly, and wrap up with comments on the monthly. There are a lot of encouraging signs for gold but still some work to be done for a breakout. (Audio length 00:14:24)

Almost no new 52-week lows. Very bullish. Semiconductor index pointing north again. Very bullish. Micro caps at new highs. Very bullish, and etc! But this headline in MarketWatch has me worried Jeremy Grantham, credited with calling the 2000 and 2008 downturns, says to prepare for the possibility of a “melt-up” that would set the stage […]