Silver Vs. Gold: 2 Must See Charts
What is the better investment? Silver or Gold? Well, if we look at the following two charts below, we can spot some interesting trends. The U.S. Mint has been producing Gold and Silver Eagles for over thirty years now. Since 1986, the U.S. Mint has sold 21.7 million Gold Eagles versus 463.4 million Silver Eagles. The […]
Top 5 High-Yield Business Development Stocks To Buy Today
Separating out the most promising stocks from the entire sector, Tim Plaehn has discovered the top five business development companies with high yields to buy today. Each has a yield above 7% (the highest is 14.6%), ample cash flow to cover dividends, and great prospects for accelerating income. The first calendar quarter of 2016 produced […]
Morningstar – Chart Of The Day
The Chart of the Day belongs to Morningstar (Nasdaq:MORN). I found the investment research stock by using Barchart to sort today’s All Time High list first by the number of new highs in the last month, Then again for the best technical buy signals. Next I used the Flipchart feature to review the charts. Since the Trend Spotter signaled a buy […]
Yellen Confused But Gives Stock Bulls A Present
Fed Chair Janet Yellen has it both ways—she continues to suggest U.S. economic growth is “solid” but says global growth is weak (China) hence, raising interest rates will be measured or slow. This is mana for bulls which then means bulls can play and so too can other markets. Since growth is slow, even in the U.S., […]
Taking A Big Step Back
Today stunk for me. This chart of the IWM captures the pain nicely: (As an aside, I’m actually not in any ETFs at all, but I thought the above chart showed the persistence of Tuesday’s lift-off; it’s like the small caps “knew” of Janet’s dovishness before she said a single word). I wanted to take a big […]
Crushed By The Record Oil Squeeze, This Is How Energy Bears Are Shorting Crude Now
The “short energy” trade worked great for a while and then, as we first warned in late January, just as everyone jumped onboard leading to record WTI (and oil and gas equity) shorts, it very suddenly stopped working in early February when oil proceeded to soar by 50% in the month ahead, leading to the […]
EC Floating Rate ETFs In Flux
Nearly a year ago, as part of our survey of alternative income funds (“Alternative Alternative Income”), we picked through a number of floating-rate note (FRN) portfolios to find the potential best-of-class performance should interest rates rise. Well, since then rates have risen by 34 basis points in the three-month Libor and 26 basis points in […]
Another Level Of Absurd
For reasons relatively easy to figure out, the massive flood of repo fails from a few weeks back was largely ignored outside of a few minor references. Not much has been made of it at all, and why would there be since it is really hard to shove the imbalance into “the narrative.” That isn’t to say […]
3 Easy Money Stocks That Will Pop After Earnings
It’s the last quiet week of earnings announcements before the rush of first quarter results hit the wires. But never fear, I’ve uncovered three companies that are poised to beat earnings and most likely put some profits in your pockets. All three should be considered “EZ money stocks” as they’ve regularly rewarded investors in the […]
Gold Daily And Silver Weekly Charts – Bubble Up To The Bar – As Time Goes By
Today Fed Chair Janet Yellen said that ‘caution should be advised in raising rates.’ And the markets went off in the ‘risk on’ direction as the dollar slumped, stocks soared, and gold caught a bid as the smell of easy money for the foreseeable future was in the air. This is nuts. I suspect that […]
