A growing group of technology companies, including Amazon, Alphabet, and Uber, are creating large waves of disruption in multiple industries The market thus far continues to reward these companies and discount the valuations of incumbent firms within the industries being disrupted, creating what appear to be a number of deep-value opportunities Most of these investments…
Investing success largely depends on precise identification of overpriced stocks. However, overblown toxic stocks and the correctly priced stocks are intertwined in the market place in such a way that it is indeed tough to spot them. Investors who can figure out the bubble stocks and abandon them at the right time are the ones…
Tadas Viskanta from Abnormal Returns runs a blogger wisdom series when he goes on vacation and he asked me to participate this year. He asked several questions for everyone to weigh in on and I took a stab at the following four. What do you know with a high degree of confidence about investing that does…
Well, some mixed emotions this morning. A lousy jobs report has gold soaring, the dollar crumbling, and the rally in equities zeroed out (for now). As I am typing the ES remains green, just barely, but there’s a lot of action elsewhere. I’ve got 48 short positions and am about 180% margined, so it could…
As previewed last night, the jobs “whisper” risk was to the downside, and in what was a very disappointing print released moments ago by the BLS, the whisper was spot on with only 138K jobs added in May, far below the 185K estimate, and below the lowest estimate of 140K. This was the second lowest…
Indian share markets continued to trade in green during the afternoon session amid firm international markets. At the closing bell, the BSE Sensex stood higher by 136 points, while the NSE Nifty finished up by 37 points. Meanwhile, the S&P BSE Mid Cap and the S&P BSE Small Cap finished up by 0.7% and 0.5%…
Oppenheimer analyst Brian Nagel upgraded Wayfair (W) to Outperform with an $80 price target. The online home goods retailer closed yesterday up $3.56 to $66.48. The company’s sales growth has been reaccelerating lately and its “inventory-light” business model is both powerful and underappreciated, Nagel tells investors in a research note. He views the stock’s valuation…
Consumer Credit Card default rates have “surged” to 4 year highs. Capital One reported its largest write off since 2011 due to credit card delinquencies. Discover Card loan loss provisions in the 1st quarter 2017 rose a whopping 38% to $586 Million. Sounds like the alarm bells have rung! Myth or Reality? Alarming headlines are…
Ethereum is an open-source blockchain-based distributed computing platform featuring smart contract functionality. It provides a decentralized Turing-complete virtual machine, the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), which can execute scripts using an international network of public nodes. Ethereum also provides a crypto-currency token called “ether”, which can be transferred between accounts and used to compensate participant nodes…
Talking Points: – May Non-Farm Payroll numbers came in below-expectations, with negative revisions for both April and March. Average hourly earnings increased by .2% for an annualized rate of 2.5%. – This has created another gust of weakness in the Greenback, and with a very busy next couple of weeks, we can certainly see volatility…
