Platinum was once the most precious of metals. For decades, it traded at a premium to gold. The other platinum group metals – palladium and rhodium – barely registered on investors’ radar screen...
To say that the stock market has become a low-volatility game this year is definitely an understatement. For example, it has now been two months since the last time the S&P 500 dropped by 1% or mo...
Netflix Inc. (NFLX) released Q3 earnings yesterday, that had mixed results compared to analyst expectations but still gave shares a nice pop in the aftermarket on Monday. The company announced 29 cent...
According to Gartner, the Configure Price Quote (CPQ) application suites market is expected to grow 20% annually through 2015 to 2020, driven by the growth in cloud-based solutions. Billion Dollar Un...
The New “Winners of the New World” Do you remember Jim Cramer’s February 29th, 2000 speech, “Winners of the New World? You want winners? You want me to put my Cramer Berkowitz hedge fund hat ...
Recently I read Jonathan Clements’ piece Enough Already. The basic idea was to encourage older investors who have made gains in the risk assets, typically stocks, though it would apply to high yiel...
Import and export price inflation continues with import prices and export prices up. Analyst Opinion of the Import / Export Price Situation The elephant in this month’s changes were fuel / oil c...
The bull is back! Well, it never left but it paused for a day and that’s something, right? As is often the case when the markets need a lift, Apple (AAPL) is getting a boost and, since it...
Following August’s storm-driven collapse in Industrial Production (-0.9%, worst since May’09), September was due for a bounce back and it did but only meeting expectations with a 0.3% ris...
EURUSD Non-Commercials increased their net long positions in the Euro last week buying 7k contracts to take the total position to 98k contracts. EUR upside positioning has now moved to multi-year high...