Apple Inc (AAPL): A Long-Term Short For The Patient Investor
Holiday Melt Up in Stocks Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and most stocks do routinely well during the 4th quarter, and especially the last couple of months of trading after earnings are out, and the fund...
View ArticlePaypal Holdings Inc (PYPL) Returns to the Online Gambling World
Following the merger of Paypal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL) with eBay in 2003, the company placed a self-imposed ban on the use of its services on online gambling platforms. One of the main reasons given...
View ArticleHere’s Why Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Still Betting on International Business...
By David Sterman As a resident of New York State’s Hudson Valley, I have met dozens of local citizens who worked for International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) in its heyday. A massive set of...
View ArticleIs LinkedIn Corp Mania Over After 20% Plunge? (LNKD)
By Mike Shedlock It’s tough predicting the end to manias. Yesterday I pondered a 21% plunge in extended hours trading in LinkedIn Corp (NYSE:LNKD). Is the mania over? Please consider LinkedIn Plunges...
View ArticleMore Thoughts on the Current Oil Market
WTI surged to close at $56.01 a barrel on Wednesday, while Brent closed at $62.86 after the US crude oil inventories showed a ‘less-than-expected increase’. The latest weekly inventory (week ending...
View ArticleOil Price: A Sword That Cuts Both Ways
By Benedict Clements and Marta Ruiz-Arranz Plunging oil prices have taken the public finances on an exciting ride the past six months. Oil prices have fallen about 45 percent since September (see April...
View ArticleGeneral Electric Company Resorts To Financial Engineering to Boost Stock...
GE Underperforms Market Jeff Immelt, feeling the pressure for a stock price that has vastly underperformed the overall market during his tenure as CEO at General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), has finally...
View ArticleGold Not Yet Bottomed in Dollar
By Commodities Now Demand and dollar prices continue to build a base Like most markets, gold takes time to recover from periods of turbulence and in early 2015 it is continuing the stabilization of...
View ArticleWorld Markets Review
By Jeffrey P. Snider Since November of 2014, the S&P 500 Index (IVV) has been traded within a range of 150 or so points. During that time, it has broken the 50-day moving average a total of 7...
View ArticleDow Up 27 Points After Fed Minutes
By Garrett Baldwin The DJIA Index added 27 points Wednesday following a busy day of earnings reports and the release of minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in March. The...
View Article4-month Market Forecast on Stocks, Bonds, Gold and Oil
By Chris Vermeulen Everyone is looking for the holy grail of the financial market which will tell what will happen next in stocks, commodities, bonds etc… Knowing that the holy grail of trading does...
View ArticleCanada Losing $30+ Bn a Year on Tar-Sands Oil
By Sprott Money Oil is our most-precious commodity as fuel for the global economy. It is also becoming a scarce commodity, as global production has flattened, while global demand continues to climb...
View ArticleChina Energy: Cheap Oil and Natural Gas Kills Coal
We have all heard about the doom and gloom that the U.S. coal sector is facing – a double-whammy of abundant supplies of cheap shale gas coupled with the regulatory noose that the Environmental...
View ArticleWill Stock Market Correct or Collapse in 2015?
The question on everybody’s mind for 2015 is when will the stock market start to correct in value and will it turn into a 50+% collapse? Over the last 15 years investors has been through a lot in...
View ArticleDow Beats S&P 500 and Emerging Markets in 1Q15
For global equity investors what worked so well last year is struggling to work this year. Last year, the S&P 500 was the place to be. It gained nearly 11.5%. The Dow Jones Stoxx 600 was up 4.3%....
View ArticleGold Outlook 2015
2015 Likely to Mark the End of the Bear Cycle for Gold Metal Focus The Gold Focus report argues that gold will continue to face challenges in the near-term, in particular the global macroeconomic...
View ArticleTech Boom Driving U.S. Shale Oil
By Frank Holmes Oil mounted a strong surge last Thursday as Saudi Arabia-led forces carried out a series of airstrikes against Houthi militants in Yemen, part of which is bordered by the Bab...
View ArticleWill Argentina Become the Next Big Shale Oil Producer?
By Alexis Arthur, Argentina, once a regional energy leader, is now better known for financial busts and bombastic politicians than hydrocarbons prospects. Still, with a resource potential both vast...
View ArticleWhich Way Mr. Market?
By Lance Roberts A few weeks ago I discussed the importance of price momentum as an important component of portfolio management particularly in the late stages of a market advance when "investor...
View ArticleRig Count Still Matters, But Not To Oil Production
By Karim Rahemtulla Focusing on rig counts to try to determine the velocity of future oil production is a fool’s pursuit. Sure, they’re a good measure during boom times. But during busts, seasoned...
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