Daily Posts Archive
June 19, 2015 An Opportunity to Get Smarter and Richer “Knowledge itself is Power,” said Sir Francis Bacon in his 1597 Bacon’s Meditationes Sacrae, and I would venture to say, that phrase is even more important in today’s data-driven world. Imagine if we had perfect knowledge—we would always be in the right...
Few things get the attention of investors like a good old international crisis. This time around, the culprit is Greece, a country that has been teetering on the edge of default for nearly five years. I’m not an economist, so I won’t comment on what Greece’s potential downfall could do to interest rates, economic growth, unemployment and the like. But I am a student of the market, and I have three thoughts to offer.
Rising interest rates mean danger for more than just bonds. Do you own any of the six asset classes below that are in the line of fire from rising rates?
Welcome to the fourth installment about my recent 17-day, 4,218-mile road trip to and through the American Midwest and back—which I’m presenting not chronologically but thematically. Today’s theme is wine—American wine—with a focus on the grapes that originated in America.
Biotech stocks have been red-hot this year, and a major reason for it is the glut of promising treatments being developed for diseases that have long been woefully undertreated.
Every year, as October and November roll around, Cabot’s analysts start to get requests from all over for their picks for the next year’s “Stock of the Year.” And that’s a tough thing to pick.
This morning I went back and looked at how a simple buy-write strategy would have performed in FB if executed the same way each month. The strategy would be to buy the stock and sell a call several dollars out of the money each month once the call initially sold had expired.
Mike Cintolo says that, while he hasn’t yet become more bullish, he’s now seeing many encouraging indications from the market and growth stocks.
Utilities, often considered to be the most safe and conservative sector, got whacked for a 4.1% loss last week. There is nothing safe, conservative, or defensive about that. The Russell 2000 Index of small-cap stocks, often considered to be...
from Capitalist Times In its fiscal third quarter ended March 31, 2015, Student Transportation (STB) grew its revenue by 13% and its cash flow by 20%. Operating margins also widened to 20.6% from 19.3% a year ago, thanks to lower fuel costs and efficiency gains. In recent years, the company has sought...