…2007 due to sky high oil prices, the ex-food & energy, or core index, remained anchored close to 2%. Today, however, even the core index is rising at a 4.6%…
…preliminary indications), policy-makers will start to form a response. And all the while, markets will price in the new information – every moment of every trading day. So, it’s fair…
…tries to estimate whether the economy is in a recession. I’m sure that Ph.D.’s fight about this one a lot, but there’s a problem: the ‘right now’ is as of…
…The best return was in 1953, when a $1 investment grew to $1.88. The next best was in the roaring 1920s when $1 grew to $1.84. Now, as I highlighted…
…inflation numbers. The expectations are for the headline rate to come in at 6.0 percent year-over-year, and 5.5 percent year-over-year for the core, ex food and energy rate. As noted…
…to market. Last year, our traders went to market almost 23,000 times, trading $1.4 billion dollars of stocks and exchange traded fund (ETFs). Those numbers don’t even count mutual funds…
…year-over-year profit decline in energy of -64 percent, analysts were expecting worse and all so far have beaten expectations. It’s too soon to say, but perhaps analysts are too bearish,…
…on us because we don’t have straight exposure to commodities, click here for the details on why we’ve avoided commodities). Of course, we’re all affected by the price drop. The…
…don’t love their naming conventions because they are too complicated. For example, they refer to value as HmL, which stands for ‘high price-to-book minus low-price-to-book,’ which just means long cheap…
…that the blended average earnings grown at 24.5 percent – well more than double the expectations. Revenue, at this point, has grown by 8.3 percent from a year ago, with…
