We continue to receive questions about the impact of the recent dollar strengthening on the US economy. The most immediate impact of course is on trade, which has created an immediate drag on the GDP growth. Source: St Louis
January 30, 2016
It should be clear by now that EVs are winning against conventional hybrids in their respective initial years of adoption. As we can see in an updated version of a table I published in 2014, in their initial 97 months
Earlier this week, Malaysia’s top prosecutor Attorney General Mohamed Apandi Ali cleared PM Najib Razak of any wrongdoing in connection with some $681 million that landed in his bank account back in 2013. The money was “a personal donation” from the Saudis,
There are a number of great companies in the market today. By using the ModernGraham Valuation Model, I’ve selected the five undervalued companies for value investors reviewed by ModernGraham with the highest beta. A company’s beta indicates the correlation at which
Was Friday’s world-market rally serious and sustainable, or simply a knee-jerk reaction to Japan’s surprise NIRP (negative interest rate policy) announcement (including some shorter-term short-covering action) and “end-of-month window dressing” by fund managers? Perhaps the following update to my last post will
That rearview mirror really is 20/20. It’s the land of woulda, coulda, shoulda. Too often we look at stocks we didn’t buy for whatever reason and get angry. But the real fault lies in not selling at the correct time.
Gold and silver were stronger than expected on Friday as the US dollar was soaring on the shocker that the Bank of Japan is going negative on yen interest rates. This set the markets back on their heels because just
“I think it’s essential to remember that just about everything is cyclical. There’s little I’m certain of, but these things are true: Cycles always prevail eventually. Nothing goes in one direction forever. Trees don’t grow to the sky. Few things
Well that didn’t take long. Two weeks of falling share prices and the European and Japanese central banks go into full panic mode. The ECB promised new stimulus — which the markets liked — and then BoJ upped the ante
Steven Poloz’s refrain of a Bank of Canada rate cut that had become the preferred bet as the Loonie dropped brought a magnificent reversal for the CAD. However, toward the end of the week, the CAD rally stalled and CAD-crosses looked to
