Risk On/Risk Off – Does Silver Solve All Problems

Risk On/Risk Off – Does Silver Solve All Problems

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Alaska Communications Systems Group Inc. – Buy Signals

Alaska Communications Systems Group Inc. – Buy Signals

Today I added Alaska Communication Systems (NASDAQ:ALSK) to the Barchart Van Meerten New High portfolio for positive technical indicators: Barchart technical indicators: 96% Barchart technical buy signals Trend Spotter buy signal Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages 15 new highs and up 34.81% in the last month Relative Strength Index 76.84% Barchart computes a technical support […]
Muskular Magic

Muskular Magic

Elon Musk, Silicon Valley’s poster-boy genius replacement for the late Steve Jobs, rolled out his PowerWall battery last week with Star Wars style fanfare, doing his bit to promote and support the delusional thinking that grips a nation unable to escape the toils of techno-grandiosity. The main delusion: that we can “solve” the problems of […]
Bear Of The Day: Whirlpool

Bear Of The Day: Whirlpool

The US dollar has surged significantly over the past few months, weighing on earnings of multinational companies. Currency headwinds and weakness in some of the key international markets will continue to hurt these companies this year. About the Company Based in Benton Harbor, MI, Whirlpool Corporation (WHR – Analyst Report) is one of the leading global manufacturers of home […]
Talk Of A Stock Market Crash – How Concerned Should We Be?

Talk Of A Stock Market Crash – How Concerned Should We Be?

A MarketWatch opinion piece published on 05/11/15 has the attention-grabbing headline “Countdown to the stock market Crash of 2016 is ticking louder”. How often have calls for a crash been made in recent years? While we will not attempt to answer the question in a scientific manner, based primarily on curiosity, we searched the Google news archives […]
Why Your Investment Portfolio Probably Isn’t As “Diversified” As You Think

Why Your Investment Portfolio Probably Isn’t As “Diversified” As You Think

“Am I diversified?” It’s a question every investor should ask. It’s a question that CNBC’s bombastic stock guru Jim Cramer encourages his followers to pose. Unfortunately, Cramer’s answers are one-dimensional – he looks at diversification only in terms of stock holdings. Having a stock portfolio that is diversified among different sectors and styles is just […]
The Dangerfield Recovery Or A Skousen Reality

The Dangerfield Recovery Or A Skousen Reality

During my morning reading I ran across this article by my friend Cullen Roche, via Pragmatic Capitalist, entitled “The Economic Recovery That Can’t Get Any Respect,” or more commonly known as the “Dangerfield Recovery.” “I hate to be the guy trying to highlight some of the good in a pretty weak recovery, but this economy just can’t […]
Analysts Are Optimistic On GoDaddy Inc.’s Growth Potential Heading Into Earnings

Analysts Are Optimistic On GoDaddy Inc.’s Growth Potential Heading Into Earnings

GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) released it’s Initial Public Offering on April 1 and raised about $460 million with an IPO price of $20. Following the stock’s public debut, shares jumped 30%. Shares of the website-hosting provider have since decreased slightly, but analysts remain bullish on potential growth. Shares of GoDaddy last closed at $24.88. GoDaddy has been […]
Actavis Tops 1Q Earnings By Wide Margin, Provides Outlook

Actavis Tops 1Q Earnings By Wide Margin, Provides Outlook

Actavis plc’s (ACT – Analyst Report) first quarter 2015 earnings came in at $4.30 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $3.84 per share by a huge margin and increasing 23.2% from the year-ago period. Actavis Inc. – Earnings Surprise | FindTheCompany Revenues for the reported quarter came in at $4.23 billion, up 59% from the year-ago […]
Buy Silver Or You Will Die

Buy Silver Or You Will Die

It’s the news everyone dreads—a call from the hospital. And it’s about one of the most important people in the world… Your mother. [Every ALL-CAPS ITEM below contains silver or is required in its use.] You hear the nurse talking urgently through your TELEPHONE and you realize it’s serious… You grab your REMOTE CONTROL and […]