WTI/RBOB Pop After 6th Weekly Crude Inventory Draw In A Row, Production Slows
After last night’s surprise API-reported crude build, oil prices dipped and ripped on a tumbling dollar heading into this morning’s DOE data and then jumped higher as DOE negated API’s build by reporting a 1.75mm draw (less than the expected 2.67mm though). This is the 6th weekly crude draw in a row. Gasoline and Distillates also saw […]
3 Best-Ranked Small-Cap Growth Funds For Great Returns
Small-cap growth mutual funds seek to provide a greater growth potential than the large- and mid-cap ones in an improving domestic economy. This is because small-cap stocks are closely tied to the domestic economy and have less international exposure. So, small-cap growth mutual funds are safer bets than their large- and mid-cap counterparts following the […]
Are We On The Verge Of Major Market Upheaval?
This may sound like an ironic title given the fact that the S&P re-tested its all-time-high just yesterday, but in the current environment of acrimony playing out in the political landscape across the United States, this is the type of context that we as traders get to deal with. The ‘Trump Trade’ took on a […]
The Gap Is Top Strong Buy Upgrade
For today’s edition of our upgrade list, we used our website’s advanced screening functions to search for UPGRADES to BUY or STRONG BUY with complete forecast and valuation data. They are presented by one-month forecast return. The Gap (GPS) is our top-rated upgrade this week and it is a STRONG BUY. Boot Brands (BOOT ) […]
Looking To Hedge? The Yen “Trumps” Gold And The Franc
With the VIX spiking and the yen bid all night and into the US open, it’s probably a good time to ask yourself where the best place to hide is in the event Donald Trump’s inevitable fall from what in his world passes for “grace” ends up materializing faster than anyone figured. Needless to say, […]
Bonds; Bottoms Up Action, Reversal Pattern In Play
Bonds have been hit hard since the highs around the 4th of July last year. Could this big decline, be creating a bottoming pattern? Bottoms Up for bonds? Below looks at the pattern of TLT over the past couple of years- Last summer when bonds were peaking, it was easy to find bond bulls, as bullish sentiment […]
The Market For US Prescription Drugs
In 2015, the US spent $328 billion on retail drugs, and another $129 billion on “non-retail” drugs, which are the drugs purchased by hospitals, nursing homes, and other health care providers and added to your bill. The operation of the market for prescription drugs is a tangle, in ways that suggest competition is often being […]
Main Street Capital Corporation: 6%+ Dividend Yield, Tailwind From Rising Interest Rates
Business Development Companies – or BDCs, for short – can be a great source of current yield for income investors. With that said, BDCs are often ignored by investors because of their small size and confusion about the tax implications of their distributions. BDCs cause a bit more work come tax time. Their distributions are […]
Apple Target Raised To $177 At Morgan Stanley After Survey Shows Rising Loyalty
Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty reported that the firm’s recent survey of 1,000 U.S. consumers shows a rising iPhone retention rate, with 92% of iPhone owners who see upgrading their phone in the next 12 months saying they plan to stick to an iPhone, up from the 86% retention rate in last year’s survey. Apple’s […]
Emerging Markets: Avoiding Demographic Time Bombs
“If all the Chinese in the world were to march four abreast past a given point, they would never finish passing, though they marched forever and ever.” —Ripley’s Believe It or Not, 1910 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says China’s population will top 1.4 billion sometime in 2019, about four times that of the U.S. […]
