Sell These 5 Dangerous High-Yield Stocks
These five high-yield stocks are popular among income investors because of their large dividend payments, but their businesses are at risk of cutting these payments or even suspending them completely. If that happens their share prices will plummet, so Tim Plaehn is recommending investors avoid or sell these five widely-owned dividend stocks. The generally accepted […]
Surge In Negative Headlines Usually Very Good Omen For The Markets
Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance. – Fritz Reiner Over the past few weeks, the number of individuals in the neutral camp rose, as did the number of bulls, and only the number of bears experienced a drop. When we combine the individuals in the neutral camp with the number of individuals […]
E The Hard Numbers Behind Selling In May
Followers of my Trade Alert service have watched me shrink my book down to only two positions, the smallest of the year. That’s because I am a big fan of buying straw hats in the dead of winter and umbrellas in the sizzling heat of the summer. I even load up on Christmas ornaments every […]
10 Companies Benjamin Graham Would Invest In Today – March 2016
Out of the multitude of companies, which ones would legendary value investor Benjamin Graham buy today? I’ve compiled ten great companies that fit the ModernGraham criteria, based on Benjamin Graham’s methods. The companies in this list pass the rigorous requirements of either the Defensive Investor or the Enterprising Investor and are undervalued by the market. Here are the […]
The ‘Crisis’ Has Just Begun; Is The American Dream Is Over?
Global Central Banks have run out of ‘ammunition’. Since March 2008, Central Banks have cut interest rates 637 times and have purchased a staggering $12.3 trillion dollars’ worth of assets. There is not much more that they can do, and currently, the next ‘great crisis’ is upon us. The global economy and the global financial system will […]
Latin America: What Are Its Prospects? Time To Invest?
Introduction In the winter of 2008, I was teaching at the University of Palermo (UP) in Buenos Aires. We were in a tall building overlooking the port and I noted an excess of ships in the harbor. It turned out this was happening all over the world because the letters of credit written by banks […]
EC The IMF Discovers The Ticking Clock
By April last year, it had become clear that conditions in China were heading into dangerous territory. Even though most mainstream attention was fixed on the then-still growing stock bubble, there was so much that was wrong almost everywhere else. The economy would not stop slowing, and indeed still has not. The financial system was […]
Bullish Price Pattern In Nike Could Send Shares Higher
Ahead of earnings due out after the close today, shares of Nike (NKE) are in the process of completing a bullish inverted head and shoulders pattern, according to The Fly’s technical analyst. The pattern would be triggered with a daily close above approximately $65 per share, the analyst noted. Upside potential for the pattern would […]
Richmond Fed Manufacturing Survey Significantly Improves In March 2016
Of the three regional Federal Reserve surveys released to date, all are in expansion. Market expectations from Bloomberg were between -3 to -2 (consensus 0). The actual survey value was +22 [note that values above zero represent expansion]. Fifth District manufacturing activity expanded in March, according to the most recent survey by the Federal Reserve […]
4 Hot Stocks To Keep An Eye Out For In Medical Services
“Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.” – Warren Buffett Indeed, uncertainty is not new to the world of investing. A regular investor knows that nothing pays off better than adequate, up-to-date knowledge of the current market and one’s current portfolio. And reevaluating one’s portfolio, from time to time, is even more important if […]
