Tech’s Biggest Hater Finally Shows Us Some Love
Common wisdom suggests America’s most famous investor has long avoided high-tech companies. Instead, Warren Buffett has stuck to what he knows – everything from insurance and railroads to soda and razors. “I know about as much about semiconductors or integrated circuits as I do of the mating habits of the [beetle],” Buffett once wrote. “We will not […]
EC Is TD Bank A Better Bargain Than Ever?
Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) stock is down 5% in the past one month. The sudden decline is largely due to a recent report in a Canadian newspaper, which alleged that the bank has pressured employees to open accounts for customers that they did not need. The article raises questions about TD Bank’s sales targets. In the aftermath of […]
Market Talk- March 14th, 2017
Another quiet trading session for Asia resulting in mixed signals with little headway made. All core markets closed within 0.10% of their previous close. China Industrial production rose (6.3% while estimate were 6.2%) for the first couple of this year but were disappointed as Retail Sales released at 9.5% against an expected 10.5%. The BOJ will […]
Fed Rate Hikes, Fiscal Vs. Monetary Policy And Why Again The Case For Gold?
I’ve been thinking about the current Fed Funds rate hike cycle, which is logically gaining forward momentum now that the Fed can stand down from its 8-year, ultra-lenient monetary policy cycle. That is because the Obama administration’s goals required a compliant Federal Reserve to continually re-liquefy the economy as its fiscal policies drained it. With […]
The Shale Oil Bubble
Here’s a chart that Business Insider put together after Friday’s rig count showed yet another build that took us to September 2015 levels. Source: Business Insider The only time I remember seeing a parabolic move like this followed by a dramatic bust was during market manias. Question: Was the shale oil capital expenditure explosion simply a bubble? […]
Johnson & Johnson – Chart Of The Day
Summary 4 new highs and up 9.02% in the last month Wall Street analysts predict increased sales and earnings 96% technical buy signals The Chart of the Day belongs to Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) I found the health care stock by using Barchart to sort today’s Top Stocks to Own list first for the highest number of new highs in the […]
E Best And Worst Large Cap Stocks – Tuesday, March 14
The best large cap sector is industrials. The top scoring industry is healthcare plans. The average large cap score is 67.78 and the average score over the past four weeks is 69.16. The average large cap in our universe is trading -10.89% below its 52 week high, 4.25% above its 200 dma, has 4.19 days […]
Hedge Funds Have Returned 13.63% In The Past 12 Months
Written by Preqin Returns of 1.18% take 12-month performance to the highest level recorded since May 2013 2016 Hedge Fund Letters The Preqin All-Strategies Hedge Fund benchmark recorded returns of 1.18% in February, building on the 1.43% gains seen the previous month. This contrasts with the losses that hedge funds incurred in February 2016: the industry has […]
Dual Momentum With Stock Selection
Gary Antonacci may not be happy to learn that his “Dual Momentum” label has been pirated by a team of academics (Huang, Zhang, and Zhou)(1)(2) in a new paper that explores the combination of price and fundamental momentum stock-picking strategies. The authors also investigate the common rebuttal that transaction costs destroy stock momentum strategies. The authors […]
June Rate Hike Odds Slump To 4-Month Lows
While Fed Funds futures imply a 100% probability that the Fed hikes rate by 25bps tomorrow, it appears questions over Trump’s policy timeline combined with the collapse in GDP expectations has dragged expectations for another rate hike in June back to its lowest since the election… As GDP growth expectations have plunged so April Fed Funds […]
