I love it when a plan comes together. In early November, I wrote about Brazil’s airplane maker, Embraer (NYSE: ERJ), and its promising lineup of defense and civilian aircraft manufacturing contracts. Separately, in December, I said: “If you’re looking for the best place to invest in 2018, one of your best bets is to put on your investment…
China kicks off the new year with breaking news: the large cap index FXI ETF performs a very important breakout. This is a clear signal: China will be in a bull market in 2018. Smart investors are positioned to profit from this strong bull market. This is certainly no breaking news to our readers. We wrote…
David Erfle, The Junior Miner Junky is bullish for the metals in 2018. We discuss the rebound that continues since the Fed rate hike in December. With gold and GDX up 11 of the last 12 trading days and up today bringing the short-term charts to oversold but the CoT reports are a sign that…
Bitcoin is the poster-child of cryptocurrencies. It’s ascent above 10,000 dollars triggered a lot of attention and it soon conquered more and more milestones. When bitcoin futures were introduced to the CME, the price was already close to $20K. But later that week, just before Christmas, bitcoin broke the hearts of many, falling as low as…
Global markets traversed a holiday-shortened week marked by thin trading volumes. Europe, in particular, witnessed little trading action with markets remaining closed both on Monday and Tuesday. Only the FTSE 100 managed to hit a fresh record. In Asia, the Nikkei slipped from a 26-year high logged during the preceding week but still managed to…
Gold is up 9 of the last 12 Januaries with an average gain of over 4%… And so far 2018 is continuing that trend as the precious metal tops $1315 – its highest since late-September. This builds on last year’s best gains since 2010. Gold futures are up for 12 of the last 13 days and up…
There’s free money to be made in Bitcoin futures if you can catch it. Video Length: 00:15:18
It is hard to think about 1981, my first full year in the investment business. Three-month Treasury bills were paying 18%, longer-term Treasury bonds yielded 15% to maturity and cheap stocks got 20% cheaper. In the summer of 1981, we saw a stock market decline from an already depressed market trading at eight-times after-tax profits…
Here is the latest update of a popular market valuation method using the most recent Standard & Poor’s “as reported” earnings and earnings estimates and the index monthly average of daily closes for the past month. For the earnings, see the table below created from Standard & Poor’s latest earnings spreadsheet. TTM P/E ratio =…
Written by SmallCapPower.com Copper prices climbed to a four-year high of US$3.28 per lb. recently, rallying ~11% from a low in early December. Today, we’ve identified four copper stocks and their current discounted valuation multiples. In addition to a strong year for the base metal, which is up ~30% Y/Y, copper demand is expected to remain…
