‘Crash In Bond Markets’ Now No.1 Worry For Fund Managers
Listen, one thing you need to understand about BofAML is that they really like to conduct surveys. So does Citi. Unfortunately, when BofAML releases the results of their surveys, they don’t include fun recipes for “Grandma’s whiskey cornflake cookies” (big shoutout to Laura’s grandma) like Citi does. Whiskey cookies or no whiskey cookies, BofAML’s fund manager polls […]
E Tech Talk: More On Canada’s Oil Sands Story
In various earlier columns, I have discussed the significance of the head-and-shoulders pattern as a signal that a stock, commodity or what not is ready to reverse direction. The blue parabolas in this five-year chart of West Texas Intermediate oil prices suggest quite strongly that this commodity hit rock bottom 18 months ago. If this […]
GE To Report Q2 Earnings: Will It Pull Off A Surprise?
Industrial goods manufacturer General Electric Company (GE – Free Report) is scheduled to report second-quarter 2017 results before the opening bell on Jul 21. In the last reported quarter, the company’s operating earnings beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 4 cents. Over the trailing four quarters, General Electric reported an average positive earnings surprise of 9.4%, beating estimates thrice […]
Valuable Insights In The Currency Markets
The US dollar continues to move down this year with the Euro continuing to show strength. Axel Merk, President and CIO of Merk Investments shares his thoughts on what is driving these moves. We also discuss the recent moves by the Bank Of Canada which is driving the Canadian Dollar higher. Audio Length: 00:10:48
3 Undervalued Stocks To Invest In This Hot Market
Photo Source The stock market has been gaining every year since 2008 and setting all-time highs along the way. As a result, many investors think it is at its peak and along with it, so are individual stocks. But the reality is that not all stocks have been consistently rising. There are undervalued stocks out […]
CymaBay Announces Pricing Of Public Offering Of Common Stock
NEWARK, Calif., July 19, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — CymaBay Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq:CBAY), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing therapies for liver and other chronic diseases with high unmet need, today announced the pricing of its previously announced underwritten public offering of 13,000,000 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $6.50 […]
Active ETF Portfolio
At the end of last year, I decided to make an experiment for myself. I established a portfolio at Merrill Lynch with which I intended to break with my normal style and (1) only have a handful of positions at a time (2) trade strictly ETFs. The portfolio has still had the bearish bias that pulses through my veins, […]
T-Bill Tantrum: Yields Spike As Debt-Ceiling Anxiety Begins To Show
US default risk has flatllined for weeks, market risk has leaked to record lows, and Treasury Bills have ‘behaved’… until now. The last two days have seen a sudden aggressive spike in the yields of T-Bills around mid-October, inverting the yirld curve as debt-ceiling anxiety starts to build quietly away from NFLX and AMZN shares. And the yield curve […]
Ranking The Dividend Aristocrats By Risk-Adjusted Returns
The goal of any investor is to either: Maximize returns given a fixed level of risk Minimize risk given a fixed level of desired returns Investors in the accumulation phase tend to fall under the first constraint, while retired investors invest with the second criterion in mind. There is a third approach – maximizing risk-adjusted […]
