It was a week where oil prices marked its highest settlement in seven months but natural gas futures ended lower. On the news front, oilfield service providers FMC Technologies Inc. (FTI – A...
The debate over whether the UK should/will leave the European Union continues. The same question should be asked about Greece leaving the Eurozone. Remember Greece? That was the country that encounter...
For a considerable period of time I have held a very negative opinion on the Euro. The Euro currency has a complicated history. The Maastricht Treaty of 1992 obligated certain Euro nations to adopt a ...
In this brave new banking world of impenetrable bureaucratic morass designed to keep us all from ourselves (slogan: don’t panic, there’s a lot of new math), there are new acronyms for just about a...
Stocks were bubbling up to the bar led by big cap tech and financials. This looked like a ‘technical trade’, i.e., a lower volume short squeeze driven by algos. Oh yes, this will almost ...
McDonald’s (MCD) has been a great investment for a very long time… $1 invested in McDonald’s stock would be worth $606.67 by the end of 2015 (including dividends). That’s an annualized retur...
Fed officials widened opening for a rate hike in June but there seems to be a lot of hesitation around this. An opportunity for a rate hike in July is becoming more and more real. We explain the case ...
Drugs Benitec Biopharma (BNTC) Down Under issued a 9-mo report to the end of March and it is pretty rotten. You know that the Australian startup sacked its CEO after a botch Nasdaq listing last year,...
People often say that investing in the stock market is gambling, but those same people probably believe that when they’re gambling, they’re actually doing some sort of investing. It’s true – y...