Back in October, we toyed with the notion that, if the U.S. economy was headed into recession, sector rotators might do better by moving capital into best-of-class ETFs (“Recession –Testing Your P...
Last August, Runnymede Capital warned our readers that a financial hurricane was coming. Over the past six months, the stock markets around the world tumbled and the US has followed suit in 2016. Our...
Day after day we are told that the plunge in oil prices (just like the collapse in The Baltic Dry freight index) is a “supply” issue… it’s transitory and global demand is doing...
Pentair (PNR) is a lesser known dividend aristocrat that most recently boosted its dividend by 5%, representing its 40th consecutive year of dividend increases. Weak energy markets, slumping commodity...
During the day on Friday, we get the Core Retail Sales numbers and the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment numbers coming out of America. Because of this, the market should focus basically on th...
Oils well that ends well for sure; however there’s no substantial indication of a ‘deal’ between OPEC members to cut production levels. Nevertheless, and I’ll add in-spite of t...
Things are getting very, very, very interesting in Japan. Dow Jones is reporting this evening that a close adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Abe has said that the Bank of Japan may call an emergency ...
When markets move from bullish to bearish suddenly troubling conditions previously brushed-off by investors suddenly appear like snow melting over them—drip, drip, drip. This is what’s occurring n...
Select Comfort (SCSS – Snapshot Report) released their fourth quarter fiscal 2015 earnings results, posting earnings of $0.01 per share (after excluding $0.43 for nonrecurring items) and reve...
The last hurrah of central banks is the negative interest rate policy–NIRP. The basic idea of NIRP is to punish savers so severely that households and businesses will be compelled to go blow wh...