January 30, 2016
I must confess that a recession is on my mind. It is the decline in the markets coupled with the recession currently occurring in the goods producing sectors which has me looking harder for a decline in the service sector (which continues
As extensively discussed yesterday in the aftermath of the BOJ’s stunning decision to cut rates to negative for the first time in history (a decision which it appears was taken due to Davos peer pressure, a desire to prop up stock markets
Microcap stocks are notoriously hard nuts to crack. They are the part of the capitalization-weighted investment universe that is typically less liquid, transparent and profitable than large-cap choices. Investors do have some indicators they can use to estimate turning points
Shares of online giant Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) were down 13.4% in after-market trading on 28 Jan 2016, more than giving back the 8.9% gain they had made on the day of the earnings call, after the company reported disappointing Q4 2015 results that failed to
For the stock market, 2016 has started off with a solid “thud.” In just the first month of the year the S&P 500 is down 7%. In the income focused sectors, the Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF (NYSE: XLE) is down 7%,
We evaluated 35 different companies this week to determine whether they are suitable for Defensive Investors, those unwilling to do substantial research, or Enterprising Investors, those who are willing to do such research. We also put each company through the ModernGraham valuation
Last Friday, Bank of Japan’s president, Haruhiko Kuroda, announced that the BOJ will institute negative interest policy to encourage banks to lend, in what I consider to be a desperate attempt to boost Japan’s economy. A negative interest rate will
Factoids. By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and we invented tacking geometry over time, about 1600 years before it was supposedly discovered. The Babyonians were watching Jupiter in the skies, AKA the god Murdoch, no relative of
Being British, I have no dog in the US Presidential Candidate fight, but something said today about Donald Trump made me think. The UK’s Daily Mail correspondent covering The Don’s stop in Iowa wheeled out a slight on Combover’s business acumen: “Critics often
