Exiting the Red Zone, Tesla Turns its First Profit and Looks to Go Long
This is the fifth part in an ongoing series on electric vehicles, with a focus on Tesla Motors. See below for links to the rest of the series.
This is the fifth part in an ongoing series on electric vehicles, with a focus on Tesla Motors. See below for links to the rest of the series.
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General Electric (GE) has been on an impressive run since late 2011, moving up roughly 65%, which currently leaves the stock near multi-year highs. There is at least one metric, ho…
This is a guest post by Robert M. Kaplan, a CFP who is vice president and National Retirement Consultant for ING U.S.
Living overseas is different from just visiting. Before you retire to a foreign country, consider not just the weather and cost of living, but also healthcare; safety; tax and visa requirements; and how friendly the country is to foreigners. Here are some possibilities.
The HSBC China Manufacturing PMI shows Modest improvement in operating conditions.
After adjusting for seasonal factors, the HSBC Purchasing Managers’ Index™ (PMI™) – a composite indicator designed to provide a single-figure snapshot of operating conditions in t he manufacturing economy – posted 51.6 in March, up from 50.4 in February, s…
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Everyone remembers their favorite childhood game used to pass the time in waiting rooms, car rides, and other places that never provided much immediate sensory stimulation when you were a child or teen.
I was discussing this with a colleague a few…
The good news: experts think stocks will remain in record territory. The bad news: they don’t think stocks will end the year much higher from where they are now.
Chart of the Week Video: SP500
This week’s Chart of the Week goes to the SP500 for making a new all time closing high. In its march towards these all time highs, the US equity markets have defied all of the skeptics, have steam rolled all of the naysayers, and have rendered every metric to measure market and economic health absolutely u…
Investor’s Business Daily recently interviewed three investment strategists to offer advice in responding to the S&P 500’s (SPY) 10% rally so far this year and 23% …
In a tribute to the legendary global value investor John Templeton, the team at Franklin Templeton Investments put together a listing of Templeton’s sixteen rules for making sound investments. Under the rule titled “Aggressively Monitor Your Invest…
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A quote from William Stofega, IDC’s program director for mobile devices, should have observers of Microsoft s (
By Hawkinvest: Ford (F) has been a great turnaround story and I have been bullish on the stock for a long time, however, the shares have experienced a major rally from the August 2012 lows of about $9, s…Why Ford Shares Should Be Sold Now And Bought Back At $11
On December 31, 1964, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 874.12. Seventeen years later on December 314, 1981, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 875.00. Although the Dow Jones Industrials moved nowhere over this period of time, corporate A…
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One of the more interesting developments of the electronic age of money has been the rise of Bitcoin, a decentralized digital currency. If you’re not familiar with it or you’re confused by what bitcoin is, you’re not alone. It’s actually a fairly sophisticated and complex form of money. That’s right, bitcoin is money.
Apr 01, 2013 Blair Jensen The Downside Hedge Twitter sentiment indicator for the S&P 500 Index (SPX) is starting to show some strength but without much enthusiasm. Although daily sentiment is painting higher lows and has a good uptrend line, it isn’t acting like it should when price breaks out to new highs. Thursday’s move ca…
The EU Crisis went into overdrive in the spring of 2012 when the Spanish banking system as a whole nearly collapsed. Having pumped €1 trillion into EU banks via its LTRO 1 and LTRO 2 programs in December 2011 and February 2012, the European Central Bank found itself facing a problem far greater than Greece (Spain’s banking system is…
After being told that the Cypriot business model was broken, the ever-resilient people of this ‘storm in a teacup’ island have, by all appearances, taken up their entrepreneurial sickles to make hay while the Troika sun shines. As the FT reports, the hunt is on for many Cypriot bank account holders to find ways to circumnavigate the new Draconian cap…
Investors find themselves having to constantly look over their shoulder to see when the Fed will shift gears or risk losing what they have gained.
Most of the IPOs launched in the U.S. in the first quarter managed big gains, a trend bankers said bodes well for deal activity in the months ahead.