By Michael Tarsala
Conventional wisdom says that a Greek return to the drachma is inevitable, and a best-case scenario is a smooth transition from the euro.
But what if all the doomsayers are wrong? Read More
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By Barry Randall
It’s interesting to see the lengths to which Mark Zuckerberg is going to avoid taking Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) public. Never mind that Facebook has actually filed to go public with the SEC and did its road show last week. You’d think poor Mark was trying to avoid going to the dentist.
But of course the moment that Facebook accepted its first venture capital from Accel Partners in 2005, Zuckerberg implicitly agreed to eventually take the company public, even if he didn’t understand it at the time. And in becoming a public company, the shareholders will be in charge. Well, mostly. Thanks to Facebook’s dual share classes, Zuckerberg will continue to own 57% of the voting power. Read More
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By Jeff Pierce
Nasdaq Composite Index ($COMPQ) – Daily
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By Michael Tarsala
Doug Kass over at TheStreet.com says he’s buying a small amount of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JBM) here as an investment.
Among his arguments:
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By Christopher Ebert
Recent selloffs in the market were nearly enough to cause a change in the option indices. The LCMPI came very close to a level that would have strongly indicated the end of the 2012 Bull Market, but has not reached that level as of May 10th. The LSSI remains normal and the CCNPI actually returned to bullish ground last week. Although the CCNPI is positive, the weakness in the LCMPI suggests that traders who do decide to go long at this point should be extra-vigilant with stop losses or protective puts.
In a market that is functioning with normal emotions, a long straddle or strangle is generally a losing trade. Losses exceed 5% only when fear is unjustifiably high causing the combined option premiums to far exceed the actual movement of market prices. Likewise, profits exceed 5% only when the market moves in a way that takes the majority of traders by surprise. Read More
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By Charles Sizemore
Charles Sizemore
Sizemore Capital is making a strategic allocation shift for all ETF portfolios with U.S. large cap exposure. This affects the Tactical ETF Portfolio and the Strategic Growth Allocation. To be consistent with Sizemore Capital’s focus on dividend growth, we are eliminating our long-term positions in the iShares S&P 500 Index ETF (NYSEARCA:IVV) and replacing them with the Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF (NYSEARCA:VIG).
The Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF (VIG) tracks the performance of the Dividend Achievers Select Index, which consists of U.S. stocks that have long history of raising their dividends. Every stock in the portfolio must have raised its dividend for a minimum of 10 consecutive years.
Much of our research and investment in recent years has focused on income and income growth, and for good reason. Capital gains can be ephemeral, and the only way that investors can realize their returns is by selling shares. Rather than enjoying the milk in the form of dividends, you end up slaughtering the cow. And continuing this analogy, once the cow is gone investors are left with nothing to eat. Read More
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By Michael Tarsala
Covestor manager Gregg Giboney, who runs the Dividend and Growth model, is among many who say the economy continues to chug slowly ahead.
In line with that thesis, consumer sentiment reached a four-year high, based on the May data release.
Source: FXTimes.com
The chart above bears out what Giboney is saying — a slow, but steady move to the upside. The preliminary reading of the University of Michigan-Thomson Reuters index reached 77.8, its best mark since January 2008, a month after the recession began. Read More
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By Lynn Shannon
TomTom NV (AMS:TOM2) announced it will offer free roadside assistance along with its “Start” portable navigation devices (PNDs), and it will extend the offer to its VIA and GO LIVE products in the coming months.
The service provides a basic level of roadside support, including the “quick and reliable dispatches of responsible and professional service providers with a simple phone call from anywhere in the U.S,” said the company. Read More
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Super Moon on May 6th, 2012
By Karen Starich
Full Moon May 6th, 2012
The distance of the full Moon on May 6th is 356,954 km from earth, which is the minimum range. If you have an opportunity to see the Moon at night you will notice the size is larger than normal. The Moon’s gravity on the earth becomes much more intense and these lunar events are called “Super Moons”, because of the increased tidal occurrences and severe weather they can produce. I should point out that the last “Super Moon” was March 19th, 2011 at a distance of 356,580 km. Read More
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By Michael Tarsala
A $2 billion loss at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) is arguably small; the bank earned more than $18 billion last year.
What’s the big deal then?
It’s a question of whether banks are still making outsized speculative market bets and now calling them hedges to satisfy the Volcker Rule. And whether we can expect even bigger “hedging” losses at other banks — and even more market volatility — in the future. Read More
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John Hussman: The Market’s ‘Dancing on the Edge of a Cliff’
Category Investing, Market News, Stocks, Technical Analysis, Trading
By Mick Weinstein
John Hussman
In his recent weekly commentaries, mutual fund manager John Hussman has warned that current market internals – vis-a-vis its return/risk profile – are among the worst recorded on the historical record. In this week’s commentary, Hussman finds that over the past 7 days things have become even worse, and offers a chart to illustrate (emphasis added):
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