In the lead up to Tuesday’s election, I am trying to recall if I heard or read a market participant or pundit who accurately predicted a stock market rally in the event of a Trump victory. I …
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You know the drill… BOJ, Fed, Oct Jobs this week. Election next. I suspect BOJ surprises to the downside on less than expected commitment to monetary stimulus, but will be muted. I expect the Fed …
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Will they? Won’t they? The financial press (and it seems the political press too) can’t stop with this. Yep, because it’s election season, everyone is playing the guessing game on a possible Fed rate hike …
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In Apple’s (AAPL) fiscal Q2, the company bought back shares at its slowest pace in 5 quarters, about $7 billion, bringing the grand total of shares bought back since the start of their $200 billion capital …
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It sure seems like activist investing only works during a roaring bull market. Just a few years back, the announcement that a multi-billion dollar hedge fund took a stake, pushed for board seats, increased capital …
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With earnings season comes idiosyncratic single stock risk. We all know that and in many ways its one of the very things that attracts us to trading individual stocks vs etfs. But what can be …
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Apple (AAPL) shares are down about 17% since Nov 10th. That was the day the stock had its largest one day gap lower since late August on a brokerage report from Credit Suisse suggesting that …
Continue readingConcern over the state of the high yield debt markets have been brought to the fore of late as the crash in commodity prices of the last year and half as caused some major stress in …
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If the 3% decline in the US Dollar vs the Euro yesterday demonstrated anything to investors, it’s that when consensus, crowded trades unwind, they do so in a violent fashion. There have been few consensus trades in 2015 …
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Activist investing has been one of the pillars of the six year bull market. And no target has been too big. Apple felt the pressure from Carl Icahn and returned more cash, Nelson Peltz pressured …
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