One of the strongest indicators that a company could cut its dividend is that it’s done so in the past. Once a company has made that decision once, it’s easier to do it again. And again. I suspect that’s going
March 16, 2016
Yesterday morning, after the biggest ever crash in Valeant stock, we showed that “When Ackman Gets A Valeant Margin Call Today, This Is What He Will Be Selling” and laid out his top (and only) concentrated holdings as follows:
I’ve recently argued that the success of passive investing potentially sows the seeds of its own demise. Patrick O’Shaughnessy also made a similar point recently and probably a bit more eloquently. But, to dig deeper into the push towards passive, there’s one big problem I have
The Chart of the Day is Sonoco Products (NYSE:SON). I found the paper products stock by using Barchart to sort today’s All Time High list first for the highest number of new highs during the last month, then I used the Flipchart feature to review the
Leonor Jean-Christine Soulas d’Allainval was no Shakespeare. His first play, “L’Embarras des richesses,” was a three-act comedy that premiered in 1726 and was performed only four times in the hopeful playwright’s lifetime. At age 53 he died embarrassingly franc-less at
Well, at least now we know why gold was knocked down lower in the paper trading earlier this week. It was to prepare us for The Big Retraction from the Fed, who begged a mulligan on their most recent rosy
January 2016 March 2016 Comments Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in December suggests that labor market conditions improved further even as economic growth slowed late last year. Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in January suggests that economic activity
US Industrial Production contracted for the fourth consecutive month in February, falling 1.03% year-over-year. It was the third drop of more than 1% in those four months, leaving the 6-month average now at -0.57%. A single month of -1% is
LinkedIn (LNKD) stock received a downgrade from analysts at Morgan Stanley as a result of decelerating growth in enterprise and Talent Solutions and rising investments in all four of the social network’s businesses. They also warned investors that the company’s
With both Asia and European markets were in pretty much a waiting station ahead of the FED, so it is probably worth us heading straight to where the action started! Even the events of the UK Budget were almost removed with talks
