As you’re probably aware, the Fed has a hard time spotting asset bubbles. Just as there was no housing bubble in 2006 according to the honorable and exceptionally “courageous” Ben Bernanke, there’s no bubble in equities today and certainly no
November 26, 2015
The cord-cutting craze has become as popular as ever, with U.S. consumers dropping high cable TV subscription fees for lower-cost streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu. With live sports being less conducive to such services, many analysts and
Video Length: 00:15:41 Is an options strategy that creates “synthetic” stock just like owning actual shares of a company? Apparently the SEC thinks so as they list Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital as the proud owner of 12.5 million more
Stuffing attempts ahead of Thanksgiving – failed to light-up excitement, as it was pretty obvious (by a factor of 10) how they tried to trap some hedge funds holding the ‘most-shorted-stocks’ which were up more than the overall market. By the
The last 20 years have seen a new asset category grow in popularity… farmland. And it’s easy to see why, because farmland is profitable. In fact, the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries’ (NCREIF) Farmland Index had an average
Video Length: 00:06:46 Tracey Ryniec and David Bartosiak, Stock Strategists at Zacks Investment Research, discuss the outlook for Groupon (GRPN – Analyst Report) as the shares have hit new post-IPO lows this year. The company has a new CEO who announced
Apple (AAPL) made an interesting move on Tuesday, announcing that it plans to acquire Faceshift, a Swiss motion-capture company that was used in Star Wars. The company’s software was used to make characters in the upcoming film look more lifelike, but that’s not
Five months ago, in the aftermath of its biggest market crash since 2008, China unleashed an unprecedented series of measures to stem the selling tide, none more mindblowing than its threat (which was promptly executed) to arrest “malicious short sellers”
Nope it is not interest rates, nope it is not Donald Trump! It is the CRUDE OIL crash, so simple! Jim Willie has good comments in the first 40 min of this. Energy company … – Debt is blowing up (See
Stocks are probably the only thing that people dread to buy when they go on sale. This is because the herd mentality of investors compels them, time and again, to dump beaten down stocks, without trying to figure out the
