Have Gasoline Prices Hit Bottom? Gasoline price plunged from mid-2014 to the beginning of 2015. Then from mid-2015 plunged again until early 2016, and since then have been rising. Are prices in a seasonal cycle, rising in the first half of the year and retreating in the second half? Or is this the end of the declines in gasoline prices for the long-term? CNBC Asks: Higher Prices Coming? Bloomberg: The New Normal U.S. Oil Imports Ticking Back Up … [Read more...]
This Could Push the Economy over the Edge
As the Wall Street Journal reports today, the Obama administration is in a mad dash to rush out the regulatory wish list of the progressive left before leaving office. Everything from the electric industry to finance, healthcare, food, and even the labor market are in the Obama administration’s cross hairs. You might think that after almost 8 years of sub-par economic growth, starting from one of the most depressed bases in decades, that it would sink in that vast regulatory overreach creates uncertainty for business and hinders growth. You would of course be wrong. The small-business sector … [Read more...]
Worthy Reads: Credit Defaults set to Rise
Credit Defaults set to Rise (Financial Times) The Plan to Fortify the Grid (WSJ) Jeff Immelt Takes Bernie to School (Washington Post) A Troubling Divergence for Bulls (Marketwatch) Consumers in no Hurry to Upgrade Mobile Phones (Moneybeat) King Obama Attempts to Kill off the Anemic Growth we have (WSJ) See also Labor Department Increases burden on Job Creators (WSJ) … [Read more...]
Worthy Reads: Recession Imminent?
Recession Imminent? (CNBC) The Stock Market's Surprising New Stars (MarketWatch) They Want Your IRA (WSJ) Buy or Rent (NYTimes) More bad policy from Obama Administration (WSJ) Japan's Problems Can't be Solved with Monetary Policy (WSJ) … [Read more...]
You Will Get Crushed in These Bonds
The global bond market is broken. Years of zero interest rates and trillions spent buying everything from government bonds to corporate bonds by the world’s central banks should have made that clear long ago. The world’s monetary authorities have sucked liquidity out of global bond markets. And now we have the scourge of negative interest rates to deal with. Negative rates and a continued ramping in central bank bond buying activity has made the situation even more disturbing. Two of the world’s largest central banks have cut short-term interest rates into negative territory, igniting a … [Read more...]
Worthy Reads: All that Glitters is Still Gold
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...]
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...]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 510
- 511
- 512
- 513
- 514
- …
- 632
- Next Page »