The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its Consumer Price Index Summary for September today (you can access the release here). The data shows a 1.1 percent unadjusted increase over the past 12 months and an increase of .1 percent during the month of September. The Census Bureau also released September […]
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Investors got some negative news today on the never-ending seesaw of economic data. The Department of Labor’s weekly Unemployment Claims Report released today (which you can read here) showed an increase of 13,000 claims last week. Also released today were the September Producer Price Indexes (see them here). The index […]
In the Cash Flow model managed by Jose Betancourt, the focus is on fundamental analysis and free cash flow with negative net debt. He uses bottom-up analysis and doesn’t restrict his investment choices to any particular industry, country or market capitalization. The top holding in the model is ChinaCast Education […]
In the Market Comparables model, manager Richard Moore uses refined financial models to pick stocks with the prospect of earnings growth and that have possible hidden value. Last week, he added many new positions to the model, but today we’re going to take a look at two of them. One […]
The waiting is over—today, several companies released financial results for the prior quarter and so far, so good. JPMorgan Chase and Co (NYSE: JPM), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) and CSX Corp (NYSE: CSX) all released positive financial results and cheered investors into staging a major midday rally (click on each […]
The Federal Reserve released their minutes from their September 2010 Federal Open Market Committee meeting along with a summary of the meeting’s discussions. In the summary (which you can read here), the committee talks about the struggling recovery, contracted bank lending, high unemployment and slightly increasing household spending. The upshot […]
This week we’re going to look at some managers who’ve been on Covestor for a few months now, but who haven’t been highlighted on Covestor Live yet. Suncoast Equity was added to the Covestor roster in May. The company was founded in 1997 by former Polen Capital portfolio manager Donald […]
In the Fundamental Growth model, manager Sparrow Capital looks for companies with a proven ability to grow their sales as well as cash flows, earnings and book values over different economic cycles. In order to find the right kinds of companies, the fund’s managers review annual and quarterly reports. The […]
This week we asked Ben Dickey, one of the founding principals of BSG&L Financial Services, some questions about their two Covestor models, Pure Growth and Growth Plus Income. Covestor Live: Both of your models have been in the top 5 over the last 3 months. What do you find is the […]
The Micro-Cap Aggressive model added Direxion Daily Small Cap Bear 3X Shares (TZA) to their model this week. TZA is a bearish ETF that attempts to deliver results that correspond to 300 percent of the inverse of the Russell 2000 index. On October 8th, the fund was trading at a […]
It was a bumpy day for U.S. markets, even though the bumps were relatively small. For the majority of the day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average remained just above 11,000, but about 30 minutes before the close, it fell to roughly 10,978. Some momentum was regained in the final minutes […]
The Department of Labor released their September Employment Situation Summary today. In the report they announced that the unemployment rate had remained unchanged during September and was still 9.6 percent. They also noted that private sector employment rose by 64,000. You can see the full report here. The U.S. Census […]