Clean Up Your Portfolio With These Waste Removal Stocks
Investing in the waste removal space is probably not for you if you prefer to exercise a very aggressive growth strategy.These days though, it’s best to play it safe.We’ve all seen the market take us for a wild ride in 2016 so far, so it may be wise to tread the safer path.We have rebounded […]
EUR/USD And GBP/USD Forecast – March 25, 2016
EUR/USD The EUR/USD pair initially fell during the course of the session on Thursday, but found enough support below to turn around and form a perfect hammer. This hammer sits upon the top of a massive collection of trading just below, and with that being the case I feel that this hammer has formed at […]
Thanks Obamacare: This Is What Americans Spent Most Money On In 2015
We have been covering the consumption tax, pardon, endless spending black hole that is Obamacare for over a year, so we doubt it will come as a surprise to anyone that in 2015 healthcare was the second biggest use of US consumer funds, soaking up a record $1.9 trillion in real dollars, and more importantly for US […]
Himax’s Recent Crash Isn’t Indicative Of Future
Himax Technologies, Inc. (HIMX), is a fabless semiconductor solution provider, based in China. The Company is engaged in display driver integrated circuits (IC) and timing controllers used in televisions, laptops, monitors, mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, car navigation and other consumer electronics devices. Last Friday Himax stock crashed and is trading at slightly above $10.00, […]
Weekend Reading: Easter Reading
At the beginning of this month, I discussed the monthly statistics for March. To wit: “It is often the case that the month following a negative return month will post a positive return as markets bounce from oversold conditions. However, as shown below, this is not always the case. The chart below shows both February and March […]
BEA Revises 4th Quarter 2015 GDP Growth Upward To 1.38%
In their third and final estimate of the US GDP for the fourth quarter of 2015, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported that the economy was growing at a +1.38% annualized rate, up +0.38% from their previous estimate for the fourth quarter, but still down -0.61% from the third quarter. The improvement was broadly based, with […]
The Best Stocks In The Surging Solar Industry
The Zacks Industry Rank assigns a rating to each of the 265 industries based on their average Zacks Rank. An Industry with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #1s (Strong Buy) and #2s (Buy) will have a better Zacks Industry Rank than one with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #4s (Sell) and #5s (Strong Sell). Finding […]
3 Undervalued REITs Increasing Dividends
Even as profits and dividends grew in 2015, share prices fell for these three high-yield REITs. With future dividend increases still in the cards and profit growth continuing throughout 2016, buying these three safe income stocks is a smart investment. In 2015, the markets soured on the hotel/lodging REIT subsector. Even as the benchmark Dow […]
Equal Weight Does Not Mean Equal Risk
Long before “smart beta” was a thing, some ETF providers were playing cute with stock weightings in the hope of squeezing out a little cheap alpha. Witness, for example, the Guggenheim(neé Rydex) S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF (NYSE Arca: RSP), launched in 2006. The argument for an equal-weighted benchmark was, and perhaps still is, compelling. A capitalization-weighted index, […]
United States Wealth Inequality Highest Since 1930
I recently discussed in an article that the per capita income for US population has stagnated or declined in the last 15 years. A direct implication is that living standards have also stagnated or declined for an average middle-class family. This article discusses the wealth inequality in one chart for the United States and the implications of […]
