Bank stocks have been one of our focuses in the New Year. It was our view that into their earnings, sentiment had gotten so good that a continuation of the bullish run would be difficult …
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Back in November we considered the sector rotations happening in the stock market into and out of the election results. In particular we looked at healthcare stocks, which had sold off fairly dramatically into the election …
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With the broad market near all time highs, and the market enthusiasm stretching into the New Year, it appears that traders are looking for ways to better define risk on bullish bets in stocks that …
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Macy’s (M) had a pretty nice bounce post election like a lot of retailers. But as we detailed in a November 29th post, not many of the big box and department store retailers have a …
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Fedex Corp (FDX) reports fiscal Q2 results Tuesday after the close. The options market is implying about a 5% one day move, which is shy to the stock’s 6.3% one day post earnings average over …
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Back in early August, we attempted to lay out a bullish case for shares of IBM: IBM is a cheap stock at 12x expected 2016 eps and pays a dividend with a current yield of …
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We will keep this simple, bricks and mortar department stores in the U.S. don’t have a bright future. Yeah in some way shape or form we will still have them as showrooms. But survival depends …
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Yesterday we previewed of Alibaba’s Q3 results (released this morning). The stock is initially opened higher after the company beat expectations: Alibaba posted earnings of 5.26 yuan per share, up from 3.61 yuan a share …
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Like a drive-thru Sausage McMuffin and hashbrown order at 10pm, the euphoric rush for investors surrounding McDonald’s (MCD) addition of all day breakfast (last year) has given way to regret and self loathing. In 2015, …
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It’s a scary time to be committing new capital to equities. We’ve been very clear about the caution that investors should be showing in this environment. We detailed tactical portfolio hedges right before the New …
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