Podcast: Play in new window | Play in new window (Duration: 13:16 — 6.1MB) DOW + 13 = 16,790 SPX – 7 = 1979 NAS – 32 = 4748 10 YR YLD – .02 = 2.03% OIL + 2.78 = 49.04 GOLD + 11.70
October 6, 2015
Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane dug through thousands of years of historical data and found interest rates now sit at the lowest levels in some 3,000 years. Wonkblog economic affairs reporter Matt O’Brien places the historic state of
The Chart of the Day belongs to LGI Homes (NASDAQ:LGIH). I found the entry level home builder stock by using Barchart to sort the Russell 3000 Index stocks first for a Weighted Alpha of at least 50.00+ and then again for a technical
SanDisk shares have been lately rallying strongly on the back of several positive industry trends. Although SanDisk will take several quarters to outgrow its revenue woes, the bad news has already been baked into the SanDisk stock price. SanDisk’s enterprise
Aclaris Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: ACRS) expects to raise $75 million in its upcoming IPO. Based in Malvern, Pennsylvania, Aclaris Therapeutics is a clinical-stage specialty pharmaceutical that develops and markets topical treatments to address various dermatological conditions. ACRS will offer 5 million
The Supreme Court of the United States just recently, correctly decided not to review the US vs Newman Insider Trading case. In response to this decision, there was a well written commentary on the decision here on Bloomberg by Matthew
I want to spend some time here discussing a different way to analyze stock investments and an investment strategy that does not involve trying to find stocks that will go up more in value than the market averages. While I
Shares of Advaxis (ADXS) are down 27% in after-hours trade after the company announced that the FDA has placed its HPV program on clinical hold due to one patient death. The stock had dropped as much as 18% today but
There are a few pieces to this. First, mortgage credit continues to improve, albeit painfully slowly. This is the reason I’ve been saying for some time now higher rates are needed. Higher rates will increase the availability of credit to
The benchmarks lie. Many investors, new and experienced alike, are intent upon “beating the Dow” or “beating the S&P,” rather than seeing their capital increase over time. It isn’t that difficult to beat the benchmarks. We’ve done it over 15
