Another great sketch from Carl Richards: From Richards’ newsletter accompanying the sketch: In my conversations about money, the most common desire people express is a simple desire for peace. We all just seem to want to get out from under the constant stress that so often comes whenever we talk or think […]
Monthly Archives: May 2011
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By Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica HBO’s “Too Big To Fail” – I just caught up with it last night; thank you, HBO On Demand – is extraordinarily revealing about the financial crisis. Only its revelations are almost entirely inadvertent. The movie is set up in the Hollywood conventional way: A gang […]
H&Q Life Sciences Investors (NYSE: HQL) is a diversified closed-end fund. The Fund’s investment objective is long-term capital appreciation through investment in the life sciences industry (including biotechnology, pharmaceutical, diagnostics, managed healthcare and medical equipment, hospitals, healthcare information technology and services, devices and supplies), agriculture and environmental management. George Silva of […]
Fly Leasing (NYSE: FLY) is a global lessor of modern, fuel-efficient commercial jet aircraft. The Company’s aircraft are leased under long-term to medium-term
yield territory briefly, and in the ensuing QE QE2, the Federal Reserve has done its job at keeping yields down for longer duration bonds, something that I
E-Commerce China Dangdang Inc (NYSE: DANG) is a holding company with subsidiaries operating in the business-to-consumer e-commerce space in China. The company is following in Amazon’s footsteps in that it offers more than 600,000 books for sale and has recently expanded into other media and general merchandise categories such as […]
women to be portfolio managers on Covestor. Of the many models we currently offer, only one is managed primarily by a woman - Vivian Lewis' International
Jeffrey Saut is a Managing Director at Raymond James & Associates. His regular market commentary and research is well-regarded and eagerly anticipated. On May 23, he released a new Investment Strategy bulletin, highlighting some of his favorite investments, including Williams Company (NYSE: WMB) and Linn Energy (NASDAQ: LINE): To begin, […]
Ambient Corp. (OTC: ABTG) offers an Internet Protocol (IP) smart grid communications platform to electric utilities. So far, they have exactly one customer:
Author: Robert Freedland Covestor models: Buy and Hold Value, Healthcare Disclosure: Long ITW, DHR Last month, on April 26, 2011, I purchased shares of Illinois Tool Works (NYSE: ITW). I still like this stock and wanted to share with you my thinking on this one. The economic recovery has been anemic […]
Covestor model manager Michael Arold attempts to exploit market inefficiencies using a momentum-based trading strategy. He has a strong engineering background and currently lives in Germany. He manages Covestor’s Technical Swing model, which follows this strategy: Using multiple technical indicators, Arold surveys movements in the market at the sector and […]
Author: Tarquin Coe Covestor model: Market Timing Technicals Disclosure: None Our view for equities remains bullish and we plan to review this once the S&P 500 has visited 1381.5 (a Fibonacci 78.6% retracement of the bear market). Should trading stall at that level, coupled to a tired indicator action and excessive […]