The Cycle Of Falling Interest, Gold And Silver Report
Over the past few weeks, we have looked at the effects of falling interest rates: falling discount applied to future cash flows (and hence rising stock and bond prices), and especially falling marginal productivity of debt (MPoD). Falling MPoD means that we get less and less GDP “juice” for each new dollar of borrowing “squeeze”. Last week, […]
OPEC Raises 2018 Demand Projection
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, raised its projected demand for next year on Monday. The organization said its next year demand projection has been increased by 400,000 barrels a day to 33.4 million barrel per day. While the so-called ‘call on OPEC’ was also revised up by 200,000 barrel per day for […]
Five Top-Ranked Stocks To Profit From Likely Earnings Beat
Investors are always alert during the earnings season. After all, this is the time when they decide on which stocks to pick and which one to throw out of their portfolios, based on a company’s earnings scorecard. Among various factors that investors normally take a look at while evaluating corporate earnings, a beat seems to […]
‘There’s Panic’: Bitcoin Plunge Sees $33 Billion Disappear Into Thin Air
When last we checked in on Bitcoin, it had plunged some $1,400 from the highs hit after SegWit2x called off the hard fork. Well, things have gotten worse since then – and materially so. Specifically, Bitcoin had fallen $2,300 from its Wednesday peak at one point on Sunday: That is a horrendous ~30% tumble and […]
Managing Valuation Risks As Market Multiples Rise
On February 1, 2007, WisdomTree launched its U.S. Earnings family of Indexes. Over the course of this nearly 11-year live track record, many clients have asked us why we chose to weight these Indexes by earnings. What’s happening in U.S. equities today provides an environment for a better answer than any we have been able […]
For The First Time Since The Financial Crisis GE Slashes Dividend In Half
One months ago, we reported that according to option markets, GE – whose stock prices and operations have been in turmoil recently- was expected to massively slash its dividend, by just over 40%. And in this case, the market was accurate, because on Monday Morning, (formerly) iconic blue chip General Electric announced a 50% cut to […]
The Truth About Wall Street Analysis
Turn on financial television or pick up a financially related magazine or newspaper and you will hear, or read, about what an analyst from some major Wall Street brokerage has to say about the markets or a particular company. For the average person, and for most financial advisors, this information as taken as “fact” and is used […]
Short-Term Uncertainty Following Recent Rally, Will Stocks Continue Higher?
Briefly: Intraday trade: Our Friday’s intraday trading outlook was bearish. It proved partly wrong because the S&P 500 index lost 0.1% (neutral), following slightly lower opening of the trading session. The market remained within relatively narrow intraday trading range. We still can see technical overbought conditions along with negative divergences. Therefore, intraday short position is […]
Stifel Calls Equifax ‘Dead Money’ In Downgrade To Hold
Stifel analyst Shlomo Rosenbaum downgraded Equifax to Hold from Buy and cut his price target for the shares to $115 from $149. The stock closed Friday down 21c to $108.74. The analyst expects the company to spend most of 2018 dealing with the impact of the cyber-security breach by making investments and rebuilding confidence. […]
Five Momentum Driven Canadian Licensed Producers
TM editors’ note: This article discusses a penny stock and/or microcap. Such stocks are easily manipulated; do your own careful due diligence. Canadian marijuana producers have been one of the hottest places to invest and over the last month, this sector has been trading higher on very strong volume. A lot of this volume has […]
