E How We Trade After U.S. NFP?
This week, EUR/USD was subjected to increased volatility, with initial gains (a high of 1.2446) giving way to losses toward the end of the week. The weakness appears to have coincided with the ECB meeting and press conference, something which we find somewhat surprising. Aside from the dropping of the easing bias (and the generally […]
Riding The Current Wave In Bitcoin
In a move surprising to some, the SEC has announced that a number of cryptocurrency exchanges must register with the agency. Without naming names, the race has begun to determine if a specific platform meets the definitions put forward by the SEC. As our readers are aware, this is actually not surprising at all. In […]
36 Firms Going Ex-Dividend Next Week, Including Kohl’s, Public Storage And Merck
There are several well known large cap stocks going ex-dividend next week including the following four Top 100 Dividend Stocks: Kohl’s, Public Storage, BCE Inc. and Merck. Ex-dividend dates are important to dividend investors because one must own a stock on its ex-dividend date in order to be eligible to receive its next dividend. Any stock ranked by our […]
Most Active Equity Options And Strikes For Midday – Friday, March 9
Top tickers for midday: AMD, BAC, AAPL, MSFT, BP, KR.
Japan’s Economy Remains Resilient: 5 Great Picks
Japan’s economy grew faster in the last quarter of 2017 than initially estimated, according to a revised estimate. The world’s third-largest economy has now expanded for eight straight quarters. This marks the longest run of growth in 28 years, since a 12-quarter expansion ended in 1989, a period which coincided with Japan’s economic bubble. The […]
Value Investing Offers The Biggest Bang For Your Retirement Buck
Have you ever heard of the term “torpedo stocks”? If you’re currently saving for retirement by buying stocks, this is a term that you should definitely be familiar with. In my last article on Modest Money, I discussed the pitfalls of index fund investing. In my view, index funds are likely to lead to pain, rather than […]
Buying Stocks Doesn’t Make You An Investor
GUALFIN, ARGENTINA – We continue our exploration… …of why the stock market is a fraud… …why investors’ savings are not really funding U.S. business… … why instead, they are aiding and abetting a multitrillion-dollar rip-off… …and how the ripper-offers are going to get what’s coming to them, good and hard. Trade Controversy But first, we […]
Stock And Bond Markets – The Augustine Of Hippo Plea
Lord, Grant us Chastity and Temperance… Just Not Yet! Most fund managers are in an unenviable situation nowadays (particularly if they have a long only mandate). On the one hand, they would love to get an opportunity to buy assets at reasonable prices. On the other hand, should asset prices actually return to levels that […]
The Return Of The Perfect Payrolls
Over the past two days, Chinese exports exploded, US payrolls bested 300k, and China’s CPI recorded the hottest inflation in 5 years. Globally synchronized growth? It’s times like these where remembering how nothing goes in a straight line helps settle and ground interpretations. In thinking that way already, you are never surprised when there are […]
Double Your Money This Year With Gold Miners
The best buy in the natural resource space today is gold miners. Period. These stocks are too cheap. If you took their fundamentals and put them in any other sector, they’d be a screaming buy. But gold miners are out of fashion today. I told this story at the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada […]
