…the S&P 400 midcap index (-17.8 percent) and the MSCI EAFE index of developed market stocks (-17.3 percent). Only Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) look better, but they are still…
…falling. My older daughter, who was watching TV nearby said, ‘Dad, are you in debt?’ Surprised, I said, ‘Yes, honey, we had to borrow money to live in this house.’…
…rates where there aren’t specific labels. I used a common ‘interpolation’ technique, so it’s ‘k’ for close, but not perfect, but that’s OK. The blue dotted line shows what the…
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…just the seven sectors (in blue), all 10 sectors (in orange) and the S&P 500 (in grey). Of course, these kinds of results make me worry about data mining –…
…losing money, remember? The price-to-book ratio is 9.2, compared to 2.8 for the S&P 500. Price to sales and cash-flow measures are even more nuts at 22.3 and 382.1 times…
…realized volatility through yesterday, you get an annualized volatility of 16.4 percent, well below the 19.74 percent long-term average volatility. The second headline isn’t any better, since it obviously isn’t…
…work by recent Nobel Prize Laureate Gene Fama and his buddy Ken French, found similar results whether you looked at price-to-earnings, price-to-book, price-to-sales or price to cash-to-cash flow ratios; or,…
…me to put 100 percent in the company stock, Mark Twain Bancshares (ticker: MTWN at the time, but long gone!). Thanks to the magic of my Bloomberg terminal, I can…
…company, General Electric, is headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut but in 2013, earned 62.2 percent of its profits outside of the US. Is that an American company? What about Nestle, the…
