All that Glitters is still Gold (WSJ) 5 Investing Lessons you Can Learn From Baseball (Money) Sub-zero Interest Rates Confound (WSJ) HSBC Calls End to Manufacturing Slowdown (Business Insider) Draghi to Dominate European Corporate Bond Market (WSJ) Oil Bust Roils Calgary Housing Market (WSJ) Big Data at Domino's (Forbes) The Vancouver Housing Bubble (WSJ) Like a Broken Record, IMF Calls for More Global Stimulus (Fortune) … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2016
Abenomics in Trouble
Abenomics, aka printing money and crushing interest rates, doesn't appear to be working for Abe-san any longer. The yen is soaring and inflation expectations in Japan are falling. … [Read more...]
Worthy Reads: Mutual Funds Worst Performance in Two Decades
Active Managers have Worst Performance in Two Decades (Financial Times) What $350,000 buys you in San-Fransisco) (Fortune) Are Earnings Recession Positive for Stocks? (MarketWatch) Why Fannie & Freddie Cannot be Recapitalized (Moneybeat) Wisdom Wanes for "don't fight the Fed" (Financial Times) The Monetary Petri Dish (WSJ) IMF Sees China Weighing on Global Stocks More (WSJ) … [Read more...]
Gold/Silver Ratio Looks Good for Silver
The Fed has bailed out the market. For now that is. Which is why I’ve been spending more of my research time at the Blanchard and Company, Inc.’s websites. Dick Young has an account with Blanchard and knew the company's founder Jim Blanchard well. Compared to gold, silver hasn’t looked this good in a while. The price of an ounce of gold is at 81.6 times the price of an ounce of silver today. That follows one of the fastest divergences between the prices of the two metals in history. … [Read more...]
The Monday Melee: Dividends or Buybacks?
Which Wins? Dividends or Buybacks? CNBC reports that dividends are beating buybacks: In the battle between the barons of buybacks and the divas of dividends, the divas are getting out to an early lead. The PowerShares Buyback Achievers ETF (PKW), which tracks U.S. companies that have repurchased 5 percent or more of their outstanding shares over the past 12 months, is flat this year, underperforming the S&P 500. Meanwhile, the iShares Select Dividend ETF (DVY), which follows stocks with consistently high dividend yields, has risen 9 percent in 2016. VIDEO: Dividend Payers are … [Read more...]
Worthy Reads: International Plunge Protection Teams Save the Quarter
Did you Know? "The S&P 500 Index finished the quarter up nearly 1% after falling as much as 10.5% at one point in February. That makes it the first quarter since the Great Depression where the benchmark fell more than 10% and then rebounded to end higher, according to LPL Financial. " (Source: Moneybeat) "Yellen’s stance that the Fed must “proceed cautiously” assured investors that the Fed will risk letting the economy run hot before raising rates, jolting the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to its biggest quarterly turnaround in eight decades." (Source: Bloomberg) China's Plunge … [Read more...]
A Capital Gains Focus is a Losing Strategy
If you tune into to the financial news networks regularly, you might get the mistaken impression that capital gains are the most important form of return for stocks. The focus of these programs tends to be oriented toward traders and speculators. Which stock is going to rise the most over the next 1, 3 or 6 month period is the topic of conversation. You hear little about dividends. Focusing solely on capital gains is a big mistake. Dividends and the reinvestment of dividends accounts for a majority of the return on stocks. Stock prices can remain depressed for agonizingly long periods of … [Read more...]
Worthy Reads: Saudi Arabia’s $2 Trillion Fund
Saudi Arabia's $2 Trillion Fund (Bloomberg) Gold Posts Biggest Quarterly Gain in Decades (WSJ) $15 Minimum Wage Push Stirs Up (WSJ) Consumer Stocks Worth a Look (Kiplinger) Would the Blockchain have Saved Lehman? (Fortune) Was March Rally the Calm before the Storm? (Marketwatch) 19 April Fool's Products That We Sorta Wish We're Real (Money) … [Read more...]
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