As technology advances, new companies and industries rise up, offering unique solutions, services, and products. Not every new tech company makes for a promising investment though. Startup companies a...
I have known oil industry expert Daniel Yergin since working for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the 1970s. Yergin attended our hearings on OPEC’s quadrupling the oil price and then tu...
When I initiated the dshort web page in late 2005, one of my routine topics was equity valuations, initially inspired by Nobel laureate Robert Shiller’s book, Irrational Exuberance, the second ...
The phrase that leaps to mind when one hears that the EU is to demand that major corporations must become transparent about their tax affairs is “poacher turns gamekeeper”. The EC is already engag...
As dividend growth investors we seek to continually add to our income producing portfolios in an effort to generate an ever increasing passive income stream. Central to this occurring is finding the p...
Back in October 2014, just after the BOJ drastically expanded its QE operation, we warned that the biggest risk facing the BOJ (and the ECB, and the Fed, and all other central banks actively soaking ...
Better than expected inflation figures in Britain: headline inflation is up to 0.5% y/y with a monthly rise of 0.4%, both better than expected. In addition, core inflation is up to a level of 1.5%, an...
– Headline U.K. Consumer Price Index (CPI) to Increase for Second Consecutive Month. – Core Rate of Inflation to Advance Annualized 1.3% to Mark First Rise in 2016. Trading the News: U.K...
Hot on the Lot Auto manufacturers finally stuffed every dealer’s lot full of cars just as a glut of used cars hit record levels. In an effort to dump the high and rising number of cars, dealers are ...
Securities from the real estate sector continue to be an integral part of any portfolio with a long-term horizon. Over the years, mutual funds from this category have continued to perform favorably. T...