The Fed, the Future, and the Rest of Us
Discussing central banks and what they do is not necessarily the currency of a stock research company but we ignore them at our peril. Their decisions affect us in the way income is distributed, access to finance, the way the financial system operates, and even the solvency of government. To many, the expansion of the [...]
Back to Basics – Manufacturing in North America
There is no shortage of triggers to detonate a precipitous fall in stock market values: any preemptive strike in Iran, rejection of austerity measures by electorates in the Euro zone, uncertain political outcomes and possible meltdown of the Euro, economic slow – down in China and even, perhaps, a Chinese miscalculation of American resolve [...]
ETF Grader – A Jewel inside MarketGrader.com
Many a tourist has returned from Russia with a Matryoshka doll as a souvenir. The numerous dolls waiting to be discovered inside can be as beautiful and more intricate than the first. For an investor, once inside MarketGrader.com, the discovery of ETF Grader can be a similar experience. ETF Grader, a separate analytic component inside [...]
MarketGrader Bank Research Proves its Worth
It’s common for research services to write about their successes in analyzing a stock but not so for MarketGrader. So, it should be interesting to note that on September 23, 2011, MarketGrader wrote about the best three major banks in the United States. http://www.marketgrader.com/mg_blog/2011/09/23/the-best-three-major-banks-in-the-united-states/ These banks were WFC, PNC and USB. Nearly six months later, fast [...]
Earnings Season Recap: Corporate Earnings Flat but Analysts Still Bullish
With positive U.S. economic data hitting the wire on an almost daily basis, we thought this would be a good time to gauge the state of corporate earnings for U.S. companies and look ahead to how improved economic reports might be impacting analysts’ estimates. More specifically, we’ll look at expectations for the current quarter and [...]
What Does Research have to do with Stock Index Performance? Everything…
Some thirty-seven years ago, John Bogle launched the first passive index based on the S&P 500 as a mutual fund. In the process, he democratized the investment process by offering access to a universe of stocks used by many of the largest institutional money managers in the world as their performance benchmark without the cost of [...]
MarketGrader Canadian Stock Index
Last week, we attended Focus on Canada, an investment forum sponsored by the Financial Times and the Government of Canada in Miami. Since we cover approximately 1400 listed stocks in Canada and some 200 dual listed ones in the United States, we had a special interest in understanding the investment climate enabled by the Canadian [...]
MarketGrader Sentiment Index, At All-Time High Suggests Caution
With the U.S. stock market at or near 52-week highs, depending on which benchmark you look at, and an uneasy complacency among investors seemingly setting in, we thought an update on our MarketGrader Sentiment Index might serve as a reality check. For those not familiar with the index, or MGSI as we call it, we [...]
Value Focus: Power-One, Inc. (PWER)
With the stock market up 20% since October (MarketGrader Sentiment Index Flashes ‘BUY,’) we thought this would be an appropriate time to highlight some of our best values stocks, available this week to MarketGrader.com guests in our featured Value Honor Roll. One company in particular that caught our attention this week is Power-One, Inc. (NASD: PWER), [...]
Contrarian View: Buy European Stocks
With the stock market off to a solid start two weeks into the new year and following a string of mostly positive economic reports, investors have warmed up pretty quickly to U.S. equities. This, of course, has been playing out for a couple of months as market pundits and equity strategists developed and announced their [...]
- The Fed, the Future, and the Rest of Us
- Back to Basics – Manufacturing in North America
- ETF Grader – A Jewel inside MarketGrader.com
- MarketGrader Bank Research Proves its Worth
- Earnings Season Recap: Corporate Earnings Flat but Analysts Still Bullish
- What Does Research have to do with Stock Index Performance? Everything…
- MarketGrader Canadian Stock Index
- MarketGrader Sentiment Index, At All-Time High Suggests Caution
- Value Focus: Power-One, Inc. (PWER)
- Contrarian View: Buy European Stocks
Market Update
- Disappointing Data Leads To Sell-Off On Wall Street - U.S. Commentary
- Stocks Remain Under Pressure In Mid-Afternoon Trading - U.S. Commentary
- Stocks Seeing Considerable Weakness In Mid-Day Trading - U.S. Commentary
- Stocks In The Red On Disappointing Economic Data - U.S. Commentary
- Stocks Moving Modestly Lower In Early Trading - U.S. Commentary
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