E Ethics Matter
This truncated brief blog is about ethics. We wrote earlier about how foreign companies with a lot of US shareholders often mess up their investor relations because they are not as PR savvy as American corporate executives. They also often fall down on morality as well. I was turned off owning Chilean fertilizer and lithium […]
Salesforce Beats Q3 Earnings & Revenues, Outlook Raised
CRM platform provider salesforce.com, Inc. (CRM – Analyst Report) reported better-than-expected third-quarter fiscal 2015 results wherein both the top and bottom-line figures surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate and improved year over year. The improvement in earnings was primarily driven by strong revenue growth and lower operating expenses. Revenues Salesforce’s revenues of $1.38 billion not only increased 28.6% from the […]
Seppuku
Last night, I was intrigued to see that, in spite of the USD/JPY powering to lifetime highs again, the ES had simply stopped caring. For the longest time, as long as the Japanese Yen kept heading toward toilet paper status, U.S. equities kept surging, thanks to the flood of carry trade money. and yet as […]
E Small Cap Best & Worst Report – November 20, 2014
Since 2010, the average return for our weekly best scoring small caps has outpaced the R2K by a median 759 bps over the following year. The best performers from one year ago are HA up 119%, ARII up 64%, and UEIC up 58%. The best scoring small cap sector is utilities. The top small cap […]
Goldman’s “Top Trade Recommendations For 2015”
Psst, want to lose some money fast? Then you, like Goldman’s Global Opportunities Hedge Fund, should have invested in Goldman’s own top trading ideas for 2014, a hedge fund which as we reported is down 2.6% YTD. But in case you missed out on this sterling opportunity to blow money in nominal and real terms, you are […]
E Special Report: Benitec Biopharma Ltd.
This special report is about Benitec (BTEBY), a stock we recommend, after I spent the morning at its US Investor Day. It also is about Blue, my daughter’s family dog. Meet Dr KSS and Benitec, our stock he recommended. Medical boards all across the country let doctors get away with fakery on their resumes. But […]
Bull Of The Day: Hawaiian Holdings
Hawaiian Holdings (HA – Snapshot Report) recently delivered its 4th consecutive positive earnings surprise, prompting analysts to revise their estimates higher for both 2014 and 2015. This sent the stock to a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy). Like many airlines this year, shares of Hawaiian Holdings have soared this year. But given favorable industry tailwinds, strong growth projections, […]
Morning Call For November 20, 2014
OVERNIGHT MARKETS AND NEWS December E-mini S&Ps (ESZ14 -0.43%) this morning are down -0.48% and European stocks are down -1.26% on global growth concerns after manufacturing activity slowed in China and in the Eurozone. A gauge of Chinese manufacturing activity dropped to a 6-month low and the Eurozone Nov composite PMI unexpectedly fell to its slowest pace of growth in […]
US Economic Profile, 20 November 2014
The outlook for the global economy is suffering these days, but there’s still no clear sign that the deceleration in macro activity has infected the US. Based on the latest numbers for October, the broad trend for the US remains distinctly positive. A diversified mix of economic and financial indicators continues to reflect growth through […]
