Sometimes, it can be difficult to figure out what economic catalyst prompted the day’s market movement. Today is not one of those days. While there were no major economic reports released today and yesterday’s reported drop in jobless claims was good news, the 2011 fiscal year outlook of Cisco Systems […]
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In their Small Cap model, Gator Capital invests in 30 small cap companies. The model is structured so that each stock purchased is looked at in terms of a partial business ownership rather than just an equity investment. Gator Capital believes that the best businesses to own are those with […]
New Covestor manager Jeff Phillips has an MPA from Harvard and an MBA from Kellogg. He has invested casually for over 20 years, but 5 years ago began investing seriously with a bottom-up, opportunistic approach to picking stocks mixed with the occasional short that takes advantage of the overall direction […]
After increasing last week, initial unemployment claims fell by 24,000 this week according to a report issued today by the Department of Labor. The report (found here) also mentioned that the four-week moving average was reduced by 10,000. The Mortgage Bankers Association’s Weekly Application Survey showed an increase of 5.8 […]
The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) issued its survey-based Small Business Economic Trends report today. The report shows that optimism among small business owners increased in October, though its numbers are still consistent with those of a recessionary economy. The 23-page report (which you can access in full here) […]
Many regional Federal Reserve bank representatives voiced concerns today about the Federal Reserve’s plan to invest $600 billion in treasuries for quantitative easing. Unfortunately, these concerns were not limited to other Fed officials but were also shared by world financial leaders. Some of the concerns, mentioned in articles on CNN.com […]
Investors use many different strategies for picking equities, some of them well-known and widely utilized and some proprietary and based on years of personal research and strategy development. This week, we asked Reiman School of Finance Professor and AthenaInvest Co-Founder C. Thomas Howard, PhD to discuss the proprietary investing strategy […]
The Labor Department issued their October 2010 Employment Situation Summary today, and showed an increase of 151,000 nonfarm jobs in October, although the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 9.6 percent. You can see the full report here. Unfortunately, the pending home sales news released by the National Association of Realtors […]
Initial jobless claims rose by 20,000 during the last week of October, according to today’s report by the Department of Labor (which you can find here). But this piece of negative news was not enough to overshadow yesterday’s announcement by the Federal Reserve that they would begin quantitative easing efforts […]
Our first new manager this week is Ginu Thomas, a graduate of Columbia Business School and Bingamton University. He is a mergers and acquisitions advisor for a financial services company and has been investing in his personal account since 2001. He uses a value-based approach and identifies opportunities that result […]
The Core model managed by Robert Foo combines a macroeconomic approach and behavioral finance. The end result is an analysis of how investors will react to various market influencers. The model’s goal is to outperform the market over full economic cycles. The top holding in the model is Direxion Daily […]
The ADP October 2010 National Employment Report (which you can access here) announced an increase of 43,000 private-sector jobs during the month of October. The report also states that job gains since February have been increasing with an average of 34,000 new jobs per month. New orders for manufactured goods […]