Why Doesn’t Gold Get The Respect It Deserves?
A longstanding curiosity in the investment business has been the disinterest in precious metals among institutional investors. Whether from the handful of consultants now leading the institutional space, or directly from the stewards of our nation’s pension, endowment, and family-office wealth, skepticism over gold’s portfolio relevance remains fairly pervasive. Because investment professionals are generally well […]
FV Top Ranked Tech ETFs For Long-Term Investors
Video Length: 00:07:46 Tech sector is the best performer year-to-date, with a gain of 31.6%–more than double of S&P 500’s rise of 15.7%. Some of the big names in the industry including Apple (AAPL – Free Report), Alphabet (GOOGL – Free Report), Microsoft (MSFT – Free Report) and Intel (INTC – Free Report) delivered better than expected Q3 results and provided upbeat guidance. […]
Market Talk – Thursday, November 9
Finally we saw a little profit-taking in the Nikkei today, after having touched 26 year highs in earlier trade. The sell-off was not so much but felt more after spending the majority of the day in positive territory. The Yen moved stronger but that was later in the trading day after news of possible delays to 2019 […]
Why Tracking The Weekly Expected Move Is Important
Video length: 00:09:21 Stocks saw selling today before rebounding some of those losses by end of day. Watch this video to keep the selling in perspective and understand how you will know months in advance if a big decline is going to happen…
Buckeye Partners, L.P. Prices $400 Million Offering Of Senior Notes
HOUSTON, Nov. 09, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Buckeye Partners, L.P. (“Buckeye”) (NYSE:BPL) announced today that it has priced an offering of $400 million aggregate principal amount of 4.125% senior unsecured notes due 2027 at 99.503% of par. Buckeye anticipates the offering will close on November 20, 2017, subject to customary closing conditions. Buckeye expects to […]
Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – The Repairer Of Reputations
“A growing economy with related worries about increases in future inflation would typically produce rising yields on longer-term notes and bonds, not declining yields. A dramatic flattening in the yield curve is seen as a red flag for an economic slowdown, sagging inflation and as a potential precursor to the onset of recession. None of […]
Disney Slides On Earnings Miss, Declining ESPN Viewership, Layoffs
Disney is sliding after hours after another poor quarter, in which the Mickey Mouse company which recently severed relations with Netflix, reported a miss on the top and the bottom line, reporting Q4 EPS of $1.07, down 3% from the $1.10 a year ago, and below the $1.14 expected. The number would have been even […]
Once Again, EIA Natural Gas Data Hits Expectations
Looking at how cash and prompt month natural gas futures moved today, one would have no idea that the strongest cold shot of the season thus far is moving in tomorrow or that today was an EIA report day. Yet here we were, watching natural gas prices recover and slowly grind higher following an EIA […]
Is The Bitcoin Bubble Like The Tulip Bubble?
Slack In The Labor Market We’ve discussed wage growth in many articles. The chart below is a great depiction of what might occur in the next few months. It shows the spread between the U6 unemployment rate and the U3 unemployment rate. This shows the amount of people who are underemployed. The axis where the […]
