Best & Worst ETFs & Mutual Funds: Materials Sector
The Materials sector ranks seventh out of the ten sectors as detailed in my Sector Rankings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report. It gets my Dangerous rating, which is based …
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EC Home Prices Rising Not The Same As Recovery. There’s No Recovery
Home Prices Are Rising. Is That Recovery, or a Bubble? Home prices are still rising according to the latest NAR data showing a monthly gain of 1.3% and 9.9% year to year …
Read More Jamie Dimon Gets Pay Raise After Raking Up $25 Billion In Legal Fees
Earlier this week we reported that at JPMorgan, the many will pay for the crimes of the few, after the bank revealed that compensation for most workers would be flat with 2012, …
Read More EC Playing The Decline: Without Calling A Bottom
Market Timing: A Futile Endeavor In 2013 the market barely went down. Under-invested traders prayed for a sell-off in order to put cash to work. 2014 has complied, being mostly …
Read More E Indian Tragedy
While there is still mystery about why Wall Street and foreign bourses have gone all weak-kneed in 2014, I suspect: the polar vortex producing record-breaking cold weather through much of …
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Is The China Bank Run Beginning? Farmers Co-Op Unable To Pay Depositors
While most of the attention in the Chinese shadow banking system is focused on the Credit Equals Gold #1 Trust’s default, as we first brought to investors’ attention here, and the …
Read More EC Thursday Fake-Out – Weak Dollar Props Up Weak Markets
They just don’t appreciate that you get tired They’re so hard to satisfy, You can tranquilize your mind So go running for the shelter of a mother’s little helper And …
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E The Best And Worst In Small Cap
The best scoring small caps from one year ago (1/24/2013) have outperformed the R2K by 912 bps over the past year, with no turnover. Â The best performers have been RAD …
Read More The Fed Will Save The Planet
As Robert Murphy pointed out last week, yet another example of ‘mission creep’ at the Fed has recently surfaced. As readers are probably aware, the Fed is one of the …
Read More Chart Of The Day – Old Line Bancshares (OLBK)
The Chart of the Day is Old Line Bancshares (OLBK). Â I found the stock by sorting today’s New High List for frequency in the last month and eliminated the …
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