Here’s How Acquiring Trulia Will Affect Zillow’s Q1 Earnings

Here’s How Acquiring Trulia Will Affect Zillow’s Q1 Earnings

(Photo Credit: Daniel Piraino) Online real estate database, Zillow Group (Z), is set to report first quarter earnings Tuesday after the closing bell. This is the first quarter that Zillow’s earnings will reflect it’s acquisition of former rival Trulia. The merger gives Zillow approximately 60% control of the online real estate advertising industry and will have […]
Five Mining Companies Joe Reagor Believes Are Ahead Of The Curve

Five Mining Companies Joe Reagor Believes Are Ahead Of The Curve

TM editors’ note: This article discusses a penny stock and/or microcap. Such stocks are easily manipulated; do your own careful due diligence. ROTH Capital’s Joe Reagor believes that the price of gold will rise as confidence falls in the value of the U.S. dollar. In the meantime, several companies with great assets are struggling to […]
Canaries In The Coal Mine, Part 1: Tech High-Flyers Fall To Earth

Canaries In The Coal Mine, Part 1: Tech High-Flyers Fall To Earth

While the “stock market” continues to flirt with new records, there’s turmoil under the surface. High-flying social media companies Twitter (TWTR) and LinkedIn (LNKD) fell hard in late April, and now recent IPO Etsy (ETSY), an online marketplace for arts and crafts, is down 50% since going public (8% of that today). Bull markets don’t […]
Charts Of Interest – May 11, 2015

Charts Of Interest – May 11, 2015

As previously noted, I have the potential to become distracted and busy elsewhere this week. So for that and market related reasons I am very lightly positioned (heavy cash). But one position I hold is an NFTRH+ trade idea on Gilead.  The ‘+’ update was produced before GILD reported its good earnings. It was based solely on […]
Chinese Stock Bubble Now Plumbing Depths Of Human Stupidity

Chinese Stock Bubble Now Plumbing Depths Of Human Stupidity

What’s in a name? A lot apparently, especially if you’re a property developer-turned P2P company riding the wave of China’s self-fulfilling, margin-fueled equity mania. Enter Shanghai Duolun Industry, a Shanghai-listed company which, until recently anyway, engaged in real estate development and commodity residential buildings distribution. All of that changed however, on April 29th when the […]
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 […]