Abercrombie (ANF) Beats On Q3 Earnings & Sales, Stock Up
Abercrombie & Fitch Co. ANF reported robust third-quarter fiscal 2017, wherein both its earnings and sales beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate and improved year over year. Notably, this was the company’s second straight positive earnings surprise and the third consecutive sales beat. Results gained from significant progress on its strategic initiatives and strength in Hollister as well […]
6 Winning U.S. Mutual Funds To Buy On Trumpiversary
U.S. mutual funds have witnessed steady growth in assets under management during President Donald Trump’s first year in office. Despite persistent doubts over the President’s ability to pass key political reforms, U.S. equity funds have registered strong inflows. Moreover, optimism over Trump’s infrastructure development and tax reform policies, indications from the Fed about an imminent […]
42 Firms Going Ex-Dividend Next Week, Including Valero, Discover And Hershey Company
There are several well known large cap stocks going ex-dividend next week including the following five Top 100 Dividend Stocks: Valero, Discover Financial Services, L Brands, Magna, and National Grid. 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 […]
Uranium, The Bond Market, And USD Comments
(Audio length 00:09:14) Doc joins me today to look at the charts of Uranium, TLT, and the US Dollar. We address some technical factors as well as touching on the fundamentals that are the long-term drivers. Also of note gold is starting to breakout. This happened after we recorded but is of note at $1,293 […]
Housing Starts And Completions Surge
Housing starts rose 13.7 percent from September to a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of 1.290 million. This is the fastest pace since October 2016. The number of units is 2.9% below the 1.328 million estimate a year ago. Housing Starts 1960-Present The 13% jump is a huge surge but from hurricane depressed levels. It’s […]
Corn Just Hit Rock Bottom. Get Set To Profit
All prices are set by how investors feel. Buying and selling shares or futures is an inherently inexact thing. Whether you are using supply/demand data or just a gut feeling, buying shares is a bet on what will happen in the future. That’s why sentiment indicators are useful … but only in the extremes. When sentiment […]
Global Silver Investment Demand Maybe Down, But Still Double Pre-2008 Market Crash Level
While physical silver investment demand experienced a pronounced decline this year, the volume is still much larger than the level prior to the 2008 U.S. Housing and Banking Crash. Investors frustrated by a silver market plagued with lousy sentiment and weak demand, may not realize that silver bar and coin demand is projected to be […]
Gold Miners’ Q3’17 Fundamentals
The gold miners’ stocks have spent months adrift, cast off in the long shadow of the Trumphoria stock-market rally. This vexing consolidation has left a wasteland of popular bearishness. But once a quarter earnings season arrives, bright fundamental sunlight dispelling the obscuring sentiment fogs. The major gold miners’ just-reported Q3’17 results prove this sector remains […]
3 Top Mid-Cap Growth Mutual Funds For Great Returns
Mid-cap growth funds focus on realizing an appreciable amount of capital growth by investing in stocks of firms, the value of which is projected to rise over the long term. However, a relatively higher tolerance to risk and the willingness to park funds for the longer term are necessary when investing in these securities. This […]
Bitcoin Invalidates Breakdown
Square, a payment company, is playing around with Bitcoin. In an article on CNBC, we read: Jack Dorsey’s company is testing support for bitcoin through its Cash payments app. “We’re exploring how Square can make this experience faster and easier, and have rolled out this feature to a small number of Cash app customers,” a Square […]
