Financial

I understand some wanting to make excuses for JPMorgan’s undeniably large market shares in gold and silver. There is an instructive message here as well – since JPM’s market corners …

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Equity prices re-inflated quickly after the bears got giddy on February 4th.  All three major indices posted greater than 2% gains this week.   Our original $100,000 stake closed out …

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Ukraine’s sovereign CDS spread is approaching the high reached right before the Russian bailout was announced. The currency is nearing the pre-bail-out lows.   Source: DB The market is all …

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The best scoring small caps from one year ago have outperformed the R2K by 643 bps over the past year, with no turnover.  The top performers are RAD up 254%, …

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he Chart of the Day is Anworth Mortgage Asset Corp (ANH).  I found the stock by sorting the New High List for frequency in the last month, skipped the stocks …

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If you remember bond drives in school, please raise your hand. There are still a lot of us out there. I recall my teacher holding up a US Savings Bond, …

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At first we thought Reuters had been punk’d in its article titled “EU executive sees personal savings used to plug long-term financing gap” which disclosed the latest leaked proposal by …

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The highest scoring names in large cap from 1 year ago (2/12/2013) returned 437 bps more than the S&P 500.  The best performers are BIIB up 91%, YHOO up 75%, …

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Thanks to Singapore and a Vancouver readers, your editor is becoming a Mary, Mary (quite contrary) about the need to sell bonds and buy shares, while fleeing emerging markets. Every …

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The best scoring mid caps from one year ago (2/13/2013) averaged 143 bps of excess over the S&P 400, with 0% turnover.  The top performers include GMCR up 144%, NFLX …

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