When Does The U.S. Stock Bubble Burst: The Best Hedge Fund Of 2016 Has A Surprising Answer
The name of Russell Clark and his Horseman Global hedge fund are well-known to regular readers: Clark is perhaps best known not only for having run a net short book since early 2012… … but for being consistently profitable and successful during this period, a time when most of his “pedigree” peers have been underperforming the market […]
Chasing Momentum
Momentum is one of the most powerful and persistent market anomalies. The evidence supporting this assertion is overwhelming. The idea that buying past winners and selling past losers (from 1-12 months) can lead to outperformance, though, is still bewildering to many. It’s not intuitive, especially for value investors, to believe that past performance in security […]
4 Utility Stocks Perfect For Low Beta Investors
The stock market has rebounded nicely now, thanks to the rally in oil prices and a positive set of data, particularly the jobs report that speaks of a recovering U.S. economy. Yet, investors can’t overlook the sharp sell-off seen earlier this year along with first-quarter earnings gloominess and feeble global growth. And until the 2016 […]
Dow Transports & Utilities Suggest Bull Market Is Back
The Dow Jones Transportation Average (DJT) and Dow Jones Utility Average (DJU) indexes are often seen as leading indicator of the overall stock market. With that in mind, let’s analyse the technicals of each index. The Dow Jones Transportation Average (DJT) is a stock market index of the American transportation sector. Price last traded at […]
S&P 500 Snapshot: A Fractional Loss, But Well Off The Intraday Low
In advance of the Good Friday market holiday, the S&P 500 logged its third consecutive loss following a four-day rally. Before the US market opened, global markets had closed or were trading in the deep red. The S&P 500 plunged at the open and quickly hit its -0.70% intraday low. After a few hours of […]
SP 500 And NDX Futures Daily Charts – The Gross Mispricing Of Risk Enabled By The Fed
“Complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.” John Kenneth Galbraith Stocks were lower in light trading volume, and like so many pre-holiday weekend days the light volume allowed trading algos to push the major indices back to unchanged. VIX stuck its nose up a bit, but was beaten back […]
Gold At Risk Of Severe Drop In Price – Here’s Why
Written by Clive P. Maund All the technical evidence suggests that gold is building out an intermediate top area [at this point in time]…After its parabolic ramp up in January and early February, it has been struggling to make further progress…Although it has edged ahead a little, the passage of time has resulted in its breaking […]
The Real Value Of Gold
I bought some Mexican gold on Monday. Old gold. Pre-World War II stuff. Two-peso coins slightly smaller than a U.S. dime that Mexicans used to carry around in their pockets — only these are not all banged up and gnarly like normal pocket change. They’re all in uncirculated or “about uncirculated” condition, meaning they’re really […]
CombiMatrix Closes $8.0 Million Underwritten Public Offering
IRVINE, Calif., March 24, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — CombiMatrix Corporation (NASDAQ:CBMX), a molecular diagnostics company specializing in DNA-based testing services for prenatal and postnatal developmental disorders and pre-implantation genetic screening services, today announced that it has closed its previously announced firm commitment underwritten public offering of 8,000 units of Series F convertible preferred stock and […]
Gold Stock Rally’s Market Cap Bias May Surprise You
Investors are once again starting to pile money into promising gold stocks in anticipation that the bullion price will continue its rise – and who controls the price in this type of an environment? The seller. Investors’ interest in Canadian gold stocks has nearly doubled over the past 30 days, as seen by an average […]
