By Peter Pham:
In the last four years, Nokia (NOK) has gone from the leader in mobile phones to a relative laughingstock. However, with the release of Microsoft’s (
We have one month in the books in 2013 already; my, how time flies when you’re having fun! But the fun may not last much longer. I have spent lots of time, over the last year, answering the question “why hasn’t inflation responded to QE?” My resp…Breaking Open The Piggy Bank
SSgA saw notable outflows on Thursday, Jan. 31, led by SPY, as markets dropped and U.S.-listed ETFs fell to $1.423 trillion in assets.
By James Picerno:
A monthly increase of 176,000 for private nonfarm payrolls in January is expected in Friday’s update from the Labor Department, based on The Capital Spectator’s average econometric forecast. That’s slightly higher than December’s gain, but is moderately below a pair …
Today the man who counsels prominent hedge funds, investment banks, institutional money managers, mutual funds, pension funds, and high net worth individuals across the globe, told King World News that he believes we are facing a 1987 type scenario where the markets will get badly shaken. Belkin, President of Belkin Limited, also believes we are eve…
Recently, many stock market bulls have come out to sneer, mock and dismiss the bears. And with some justification given the significant market upswing since 2009. Sure enough though, just as the bulls started to dominate the airwaves, the market may have reached an important top. Asia Confidential isn’t sure this is the top a…
By Stephen Faulkner:
A question that seems to be repeated with increasing frequency as a stock trades in a narrow range for longer periods of time is “When is this stock going to move?” Investors see this question posed about nearly every ticker symbol at some point. Usu…
By Jeff Miller:
For many years I have written a regular monthly preview of the Employment Situation Report. I have done …
Green Dot Corporation (GDOT)
Q4 2012 Earnings Conference Call
January 31, 2013, 17:00 PM ET
Executives
Steven W. Streit – Founder, Chairman, CEO and President
John L. Keatley – CFO
Christopher Mammone – VP …
My main industry model is illustrated in the graphic. Green industries are cold. Red industries are hot. If you like to play momentum, look at the red zone, and ask the question, “Where are trends under-discounted?” Price momentum tends to persist, but look for areas where it might be even better in the near term. […]
Feb 01, 2013 Doug Short The S&P 500 closed December with a monthly gain of 5.04%. As anticipated in my moving-average preview, all three S&P 500 MAs and four of the five the Ivy Portfolio ETF MAs are signaling “Invested”. The Ivy Portfolio The table below shows the current 10-month simple moving average (SMA) signal for each of the fiv…
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Pitney Bowes (PBI) shares surged over 20% Thursday after the company turned in Q4 results that were better than expected. Pitney Bowes reported adjusted net income of $0.56 per sha…
The Chubb (CB)
Q4 2012 Earnings Call
January 31, 2013 5:00 pm ET
Executives
John D. Finnegan – Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President, Chairman of Executive Committee and Chairman of Finance Committee
Paul J. Kru…
“There are two times in a man’s life when he shouldn’t speculate: When he can afford to and when he can’t.” – Mark Twain Remember […]
By Chris Katje:
Zoetis (ZTS), the animal health unit from Pfizer (PFE), has officially been priced for its initial price offering. On Thursday night…
The founder of Peregrine Financial Group was sentenced to 50 years in prison for a long-running fraud that cost his investors about $215 million.
Netflix (NFLX) has been on an amazing run recently and the stock has gone from trading in the low $60s to over $165 today. The stock is up almost 185% in the past half year and 173% in the quarter alone. This breakneck performance has been driven by three prim…
I love my readers. How many Variable Annuity [VA] products got mentioned to me as a result of yesterday’s article? Four, out of 2 emails, 3 comments, and one clever guy who figured out my phone number (no, I don’t keep it secret). Vanguard’s VA offerings Fidelity’s VA offerings Symetra’s VA offerings Jefferson National…
You know how we feel about special order-types and expert networks. I’ll save you the long-winded paragraph so you can keep selling Amazon shares. Here is an HFT infographic, slightly out-dated as Minoj has already begun to run his microwave trading system he bought from the Sears DIY section, which explains in simplistic terms the new dy…
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The California Division of Occupational Safety & Health just slammed Chevron with massive, record-breaking penalties related to the refinery in Richmond, California—the one that ended up in a fireball last August.
It started when a severely corrod…
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