Commentary and Performance After digesting yesterday’s FOMC interest rate policy announcement, the market assigned a higher probability to a rate hike in December-2015 or early 2016. Today’s positive economic data may have exceeded any negative news, but the bearish overweight of
October 29, 2015
Podcast: Play in new window | Play in new window (Duration: 13:16 — 6.1MB) DOW – 23 = 17,755 SPX – 0.94 = 2089 NAS – 21 = 5074 10 YR YLD + .08 = 2.17% OIL + .12 = 46.06 GOLD – 10.20
Thursday’s ugly economic data continued and some took note. GDP was much weaker at 1.5% vs prior 3.9%. Much of this was due to sliding inventories. We rely on Consumer Metrics Institute to explain it all to us. Their summary is below:
LinkedIn Corp (LNKD) is a business-focused social networking service that allows members to create, manage, and share their professional identity online, build their professional network, access shared knowledge and insights, and find business opportunities. The company also offers hiring and marketing
The recent plunge in Eros International (EROS) is finally getting some mainstream media attention in the U.S. Bloomberg ran a story on Friday, October 23. This attention finally prodded EROS management to issue a statement about the latest drama in its stock. Reuters quickly
Today I wanted to find the 5 best small cap stocks that met my criteria. I used Barchart to sort the S&P 600 Small Cap Index stocks first for a Weighted Alpha of 50.00+ or more, then for technical buy signals of
Things are getting ugly for FMC Technologies FTI. The company missed Q3 revenue estimates by a country mile. Revenue of $1.5 billion was 7% below the $1.7 billion analysts were expecting. The stock is down about 7% post-earnings. I had
Including this morning’s reports, we now have Q3 results from 307 S&P 500 members that combined account for 68.9% of the index’s total market capitalization. Total earnings for these companies are up +1.8% from the same period last year on
Western Union Co (WU) is a payment and money movement services company. The company operates in three segments: Consumer-to-Consumer, Consumer-to-Business, and Business Solutions, offering a variety of money transfer services ranging from mobile money and direct-to-bank. Western Union was founded in
If you Google search Starwood (NYSE:HOT) by ticker, you will get a lot of information that has little to do with this investment opportunity. As recently discussed in M&A Daily, Starwood is selling their vacation ownership business to Interval Leisure (NASDAQ:IILG)
