Kurt Osterberg

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What Assets Should You Have In Your Moderate Portfolio?

Ibbotson Associates provides asset allocation guidelines that span the risk spectrum from conservative to aggressive. The moderate portfolio consists of roughly 42% in U.S. Stock, 18% in Non-U.S. Stoc...
On December 9, 2015 / By Kurt Osterberg
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Guess What Happened The Last Time Junk Bonds Started Crashing Like This? Hint: Think 2008

The extreme carnage that we are witnessing in the junk bond market right now is one of the clearest signals yet that a major U.S. stock market crash is imminent. For those that are not familiar with �...
On December 9, 2015 / By Kurt Osterberg
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Can Google’s Recently Launched YouTube Red Take On Netflix?

YouTube Red is a disruptive product created to take on Netfix and Spotify. Rising Netflix and Spotify subscribers shows that there is certainly a market for YouTube Red. Google/Alphabet has everything...
On December 9, 2015 / By Kurt Osterberg
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Gold Daily And Silver Weekly Charts – Ol’ Man River

Ol’ Man River, that Ol’ Man River He must know somethin’ but he don’t say nothin’ He just keeps rollin’, he keeps on rollin’ along. Just like gold, which keep...
On December 9, 2015 / By Kurt Osterberg
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Overflowing Global Oil Storage Leads To Soaring Supertanker Rates

One month ago when oil was attempting another break out above $50, we wrote that the black gold had officially reached its “tipping point” when as we noted China had finally reached the ...
On December 9, 2015 / By Kurt Osterberg
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Subtle Clues: Not Everyone Thinks The Fed Will Win

The illiquid trading of December is already well in evidence – and we haven’t even reached the bad part yet. One we are past the CPI report and the Fed meeting, there will be a few days where seri...
On December 9, 2015 / By Kurt Osterberg
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Something Did Blow Up In Junk

Now that Kinder Morgan (KMI) has come out with a massive dividend cut, I think it will get harder to ignore that this isn’t just about crude oil prices and the death of “transitory.” There is a ...
On December 9, 2015 / By Kurt Osterberg
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One True Measure Of Stagnation: Not In The Labor Force

This is a stark depiction of underlying stagnation: paid work is not being created as population expands. Heroic efforts are being made to cloak the stagnation of the U.S. economy. One of these is to...
On October 6, 2015 / By Kurt Osterberg
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US Services Economy “Bounce” Dies As New Orders Crash Most Since Lehman

On the heels of China’s, Japan’s, Brazil’s, and Europe’s Services PMI weakness (and US Manufacturing PMI and ISM weakness), Markit’s US Services PMI printed 55.1 (missing...
On October 6, 2015 / By Kurt Osterberg
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Anavex Life Sciences – Chart Of The Day

The Chart of the Day is Anavex Life Sciences (OTCQX:AVXL). I found the biopharmaceutical stock by using Barchart to sort for the stocks with a Weighted Alpha of higher than 50.00+ and technical bu...
On October 5, 2015 / By Kurt Osterberg