Mergers are great market boosters. Â They make investors think everything is undervalued in a sector when one company gets bought for high cash premiums and BEAMÂ (Jim Beam)Â is one of …
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Following the waves of price and volume is the key to trend strength of a stock. Here is the final video of the custom indicator RTTTrendPowerOBV series. All stock traders view …
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Slow Start for Stocks The New Year has started (if you hadn`t noticed) and nobody is rushing in to buy everything that isn`t nailed down like last year where asset …
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  The best sector is industrial goods.  Industrial goods remain the top scoring sector across our 1500 company universe. Industrials goods have held the top spot in our …
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Loan growth in the US continues to slow. Credit expansion is certainly not nearly as bad as what has transpired in the Eurozone (discussed here), but the slowing trend is …
Read More Over the past week, five of the eight indexes on my world markets watch lists posted gains. Germany’s DAXK was the standout with a 2.85% advance, followed by France’s CAC …
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In true oligopolistic fashion, the credit card industry is dominated by just four players:  Visa (V), MasterCard (MA), American Express (AXP) and Discover (DFS). For instance, here’s a look at …
Read More “As long as the music is playing, you’ve got to get up and dance…. We’re still dancing.”      – Chuck Prince, July 2007 Late last night the music may have …
Read More There have been a litany of articles written recently discussing how the stock market is set for a continued bull rally. The are some primary points that are common threads …
Read More From time to time I’m asked why I don’t include Market Cap to GDP among the long-term valuation indicators I routinely follow. The metric gained popularity in recent years thanks …
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