Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer Lakshman Achuthan and Co-Founder and Chief Research Officer Anirvan Banerji co-wrote and submitted an op-ed piece on CNN which ran today. In it, they stated that the double-dip recession many have feared is actually, “not going to happen.” According to […]
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The Commerce Department released both new residential home sales and durable goods data from September today. According to the reports, new single-family home sales increased in September by 6.6 percent, but were 21.5 percent below September 2009’s sales, likely due to the lack of home buying tax credits available this […]
The Mid-Cap Fundamentals model managed by John Ballard is a long-term model that holds the best companies within under-capitalized sectors. Recently, Ballard added Netflix Inc (NASDAQ: NFLX) to the model. NFLX has a high price to earnings ratio compared to peers, but the company has basically no competition in the […]
billion in 2007 to $19.4 billion in 2008, then finally to $16.8 billion in 2009. During the first three quarters of 2010, the company had reached a reported
It was announced today that the Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index® increased in October, and the increase—though slight—beat the expectations of analysts. To read the full report, visit the website. Combining the consumer confidence results with yesterday’s data about increasing existing home sales, investors should have been buoyed. But the […]
Frank Hogelucht, a relatively new model manager to Covestor (Frank’s Trading the Odds model has an inception date of August 13th, 2010), has an interesting approach to model management: he combines statistics and historical market data to create a ‘card-counting’ method of picking equities and funds for his model. We […]
The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) presented their latest existing home sales information today. Happily, September saw a gain in existing home sales. In total, sales increased 10 percent, which is still 19.1 percent lower than September 2009 levels. This difference is likely due to the tax credits offered to […]
model manager Gator Capital Management was founded by Derek Pilecki in 2008. Derek is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a former portfolio manager for Goldman
Despite primarily positive quarterly financial results from reporting companies this week, concerns over China’s interest rate and currency value kept trading restrained. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed on Friday down 14.38 points to 11,132.19 which is still a gain over its Friday, October 15th closing of 11,062.78. The Nasdaq […]
Atlas Capital manages the Broad ETF model on Covestor with the goal of representing about 80 percent of the investable universe of equities within the model. The top holding in the model is Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI), a fund that attempts to replicate the MSCI US Broad Market […]
This week’s initial jobless claims report from the Department of Labor (see the full report here) showed a total of 23,000 fewer claims for the week ending October 16th. This drop helped reduce the 4-week moving average by 4,250 claims. The Conference Board’s Leading Economic Index had a .3 percent […]
Today was a big day for economic data. First, the Mortgage Bankers Association released its Weekly Application Survey for last week. According to the survey, mortgage loan applications reduced by 10.5 percent from the previous week, indicating a possible further slowdown in the housing market. Then, the Federal Reserve Board […]