Managers of tactical asset allocation mutual funds can invest in everything from stocks to commodities, moving money out of one asset category and into another whenever they want. They?re supposed to buffer you against collapsing markets while offering growth potential. It all sounds great in theory. But in the real...
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Vishnu Lekraj – Morningstar. Vishnu Lekraj - Morningstar Looking here at your margins, they seemed to have improved over the quarter, and over the past half year. Looking at your uniform rental division, how are you going to approach...
While you wait for your portfolio to climb out of the basement, fund companies are siphoning off a bigger share of your cash. An exclusive analysis for MoneyWatch.com by investment...
There's so much concern about the fragility of the U.S. financial system that some investors are advocating holding physical gold bullion over paper-based exposure to the precious metal.
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Global Investor Services, Inc., (OTCBB:GISV:$.05), a company which is one of ten companies in the Online Financial Sector which I am currently recommending and holding announced that it had signed a Letter of Intent with Questrade, which is Canada’s fastest growing online broker according to Investor Economics. Questrade is the first Canadian broker to allow [...]
Agriculture is one of my favorite "long term" themes as a crowded planet modernizes - but the recession has certainly hit the names in the sector more than I thought; I thought these would be a bit more recession proof. In the first few days of the week, 2 under achievers of late - Mosaic (MOS) in fertilizer and Monsanto (MON) in seeds/herbicide have reported and despite disappointing numbers have not been hammered. In fact Mosaic rallied after its report Monday evening but then again as we noted - by midday yesterday almost every stock was up. At some point all the bad news will be in these stocks, but it is unclear if that point is now.[More...]
For investors who fear that the markets have soared too far too fast, the thought that some stocks may still be cheap is hard to imagine - especially when it comes to China.
Here’s one way to separate the cash from the trash.
I call it the “good-deal number,” or the “good-deal indicator.” And for ...
Earnings revisions are at a two-year high. (Bespoke)
Emerging market bond spreads have been halved YTD. (EconomPic Data)
Everyone thinks interest rates are going higher. (Clusterstock)
Checking in on some credit market indicators. (Calculated Risk)
Taking a look at the longer term cycles for the VIX. (VIX and More)
Research into the relationship between the dispersion in equity returns, the [...]
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