Next time you take your trash out or see your neighbor’s cans on the side of the garage/house – I hope you now think of dividend investing. This dividend stock analysis proudly brings Waste Management (WM) to the forefront this summer. We performed a dividend stock analysis on this company and industry competition to see if they appear to be or appear not to be attractive for a stock purchase. Time to dumpster dive into the stock! The Stock – Waste Management (WM) I was driving around my neighborhood and was surrounded by a few waste disposal service trucks, massive trucks, that is. I though to myself, wow, my one neighborhood has a TON...
If this pattern is a standard A-B-C correction lower; the target is 1.2826 calculated by Wave C being the same length of Wave A. Also, this brings into another common level–prior Wave 4 of the impulse higher at 1.2808. Support for our GBP/JPY short it may be…...
My apologies for the dearth of morning missives this week. As I mentioned, I have been technology- and communications-challenged of late. However, the good news is that my tech travails appear to be coming to an end as I have a shiny new computer, a landline phone, AND upgraded internet. It will suffice to say that I am now a happy camper. Here’s a “quick take” on what’s happening in the markets this morning – for those that aren’t on the golf course or at the beach with the kids, that is! Hawkish comments from Super Mario, oil, earnings from the likes of Visa, GE, and Mr. Softie, and new developments in the Russia probe are captu...
The gold-futures and silver-futures short positions held by speculators have rocketed up to extremes in recent weeks. These elite traders are aggressively betting for further weakness in gold and silver prices. But history has proven extreme shorts are a powerful contrarian indicator. Right as speculators wax the most bearish as evidenced by their collective bets, gold and silver decisively bottom and birth major new rallies. Futures trading has a wildly-outsized impact on gold and silver prices, especially over the short term. It is amazing how much volatility futures speculators’ collective buying and selling generates, often drowning out...
For investors seeking momentum, First Trust Europe AlphaDEX Fund (FEP – Free Report) is probably on radar now. The fund just hit a 52-week high, and is up about 30.7% from its 52-week low price of $27.67 per share. But are more gains in store for this ETF? Let’s take a quick look at the fund and the near-term outlook on it to get a better idea on where it might be headed: FEP in Focus This fund targets the European stock market with a slightly active choice as it uses the AlphaDEX methodology to select the stock. It has key holdings in consumer discretionary, industrials, financials, and materials, and is highly diversified ...
With the news flow we’ve seen thus far in 2017, it would have been difficult to predict any broad-based strategies focused on European equities being up 20% or more around the half-year point. Yet:1 European equity indexes have significantly outperformed U.S. equities, giving credence to the belief that after elections ended up outside of the “disaster” scenarios, broad-based equity recovery has occurred. With the euro up 8.62% year-to-date, many investors have been looking for unhedged exposures. WisdomTree has two strategies, the WisdomTree Europe Domestic Economy Index and the WisdomTree Europe Quality Dividend Growth Index, tha...
Fund Manager Dana Lyons thinks we are in for rising yields over the long term. We look at the charts as well as some other factors that make Dana and his team believe this will be a long term trend. Dana also comments on the broad equity markets and if they will start breaking down. (Audio length 00:10:04)...
Ticker Last High Low Daily Change (pip) Daily Range (pip) USD/JPY 111.17 112.08 111.15 74 93 The near-term outlook for USD/JPY appears to be unfazed by the dovish comments coming out of the Bank of Japan (BoJ) as the pair slowly works its way back towards the June-low (108.80). USD/JPY slips to fresh monthly lows even as the Bank of Japan (BoJ) now expects to achieve the 2% inflation-target in fiscal-year 2019, and the pair stands at risk of facing additional losses next week should the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) show a greater willingness to retain the current policy for the foreseeable future. Despite talks of unloading of the bal...
<< Read Part 1: FAANGs In Finance: Joining The Customer Journey This spring, at TechCrunch Disrupt Asia, a leading VC called Amazon the next biggest FinTech company. In this post, we explore the opportunities for Amazon to enter Financial Services – and how today’s Financial Institutions can leverage the Amazon platform to engage tomorrow’s investors. The Chinese Parallel Our “Amazon Wealth” prediction isn’t pure speculation – the company’s Chinese e-commerce counterparts have already become financial titans by embedding payments, loans, and investments into their consumer platforms. Alibaba, a $391BN market cap globa...
Netflix surprised investors with better than expected subscribers growth in the second quarter of 2017. Several days ago Netflix released its financial statements which must have made its shareholders very happy because the stock shot up 13% the next day. The online streaming company added over five million new subscribers around the world, which is more than the originally expected number of 3.2 million. About 1.1 million of the new subscribers were from the United States of America, and 4.1 million came from other countries. But despite the positive surprise, some analysts are warning that NFLX has become too expensive to own from an ev...