Moncler chairman Remo Ruffini after presenting the initial public offering for the company’s listing on Milan’s stock exchange, 2 December Photograph: Antonio Calanni/APSome people may regard €1,000-plus for a goosedown ski jacket as good value, but it’s quite another thing to think a company that last year made top-line earnings of €161m can be worth €3.6bn.Yet Moncler, an Italian […]
Stock Market Sentiment: Dow Industrials Weakening
Stock-Markets / Stock Market SentimentDec 16, 2013 – 03:37 PM GMTBy: PhilStockWorld
Courtesy of Declan. I have added a new market sentiment chart with relative momentum, trend and volume metrics in the one chart. As an example in the new chart, industrials (XLI) gained Thursday and Friday, but these gains were delivered […]
In my experience, one of the singular best investment strategies is to buy assets / asset classes which are most reviled by investors. By reviled, I mean assets where a mere mention of you wanting to invest in them generates nervous sniggers among others, if not howling laughter. Where upon their mention, people hand you business cards, not their own– […]
Gold: where too from here?Why gold miners are so hatedWhich miners appear ok valueCaveatsIn my experience, one of the singular best investment strategies is to buy assets/asset classes which are most reviled by investors. By reviled, I mean assets where a mere mention of you wanting to invest in them generates nervous sniggers among others, if not howling laughter. Where […]
Wikimedia CommonsStocks are going up.It’s time to stop reflecting on 2013 and start thinking about 2014.
We thumbed through hundreds of pages of Wall Street’s 2014 outlook notes and compiled the thoughts of 14 top stock market forecasters.The average S&P 500 call was 1,949, with a median of 1,950. For EPS, the mean was $118 and median call was $116.Here are […]
RFID. While its roots are generally traced back to World War II, radio frequency identification technology did not find a supply chain toehold until the 1970s when the first patents were issued. That was the same time frame in which the U.S. government’s Department of Energy asked the Los Alamos National Laboratory to develop a system for tracking nuclear materials. […]
Tunnel vision is a major risk for stock investors today. As discussed in a recent article, nearly every major asset class beyond the U.S. stock market has struggled in 2013 with many on course to post declines for the year. And the magnitude of stock outperformance this year at over +20% versus all other major investment categories is unprecedented in […]
For all its hype as a potential panacea for companies everywhere, Big Data isn’t necessarily useful data. All the analysis in the world isn’t helpful if, in the end, you can’t figure out what your data actually indicates. Gleaning information by interpreting and recognizing patterns in the data, and then deciding on a course of action, is sort of hard. […]
Uranium Stocks for Long-Term Investing Success
Commodities / UraniumDec 04, 2013 – 12:52 PM GMTBy: InvestmentContrarian
Sasha Cekerevac writes: Many times people ask me how I come up with my investment strategy.Obviously, there is no one answer, but a common trick I use when developing any investment strategy is to look for areas where market sentiment still remains […]
You have only one month left to pad your 2013 returns.So I have to ask…Are you trading the right stocks?As the market enters the home stretch, the sentiment picture is little changed. Investors are beginning to come around to the idea that equities might not be such a terrible investment idea. But most remain skeptical– and that’s good news for […]
