Economist John Harvey says it’s not supply and demand: Today’s spike is being driven by speculation, just as it was up to the financial crisis. Don’t take my word for it. Consider the data… Today, not only have known reserves risen substantially, but we are only just emerging from the […]
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Investors in silver (NYSE: SLV) should be forgiven for being irritable – their investment has been a veritable roller coaster of late, reaching multi-decade highs before a stunning collapse last week. The Wall Street Journal has been covering the story, and looking back to the last time silver was this […]
Chuck Jaffe of MarketWatch recently wrote about the danger posed by the next ‘flash crash’ and how retail ETF investors often mistake limit orders for protection: The ‘flash crash’ turned the stock market on its ear during one violent trading day a year ago, but many investors are still vulnerable […]
Within a great post on how much you can learn while hitting rock bottom, Leo Kolivakis shares this gem (bold added): During a recent lunch with my former boss at PSP, Pierre Malo, we talked about what we value most in life. In our previous lunch, Pierre and I discussed […]
Another great sketch from Carl Richards: From Richards’ newsletter accompanying the sketch: Almost no one is happy with the state of their financial plans, or at least it appears that way based on what we hear in the media. For that to change, we can’t continue to do the same […]
While consumers are feeling the pinch at the pumps, software developers are creating mobile solutions for finding the best gas prices in a region. It may be time to start checking these out.. In a new Houston Chronicle article, Dwight Silverman reviews the top mobile apps: Where – Free. iOS, […]
In this series, we’ve asked Covestor managers: “What is the single most important lesson you’ve learned about being a successful investor, and how do you try to apply that today?” Author: Brendan Ruchert-Dixon Covestor model: Alpha Trapper Investing has never been my full-time profession, but I have had an interest […]
We’ve been harping on the importance of plain language in investment product fee statements, which we believe in strongly. But as Brett Arends explains in a recent WSJ column, it’s not just fees that suffer from obfuscation. Financial advisors need to speak to clients in plain language about the entire […]
Legendary value firm Tweedy, Brown gave its case for holding Cisco Systems Inc (NASDAQ: CSCO) in its recently released 1Q 2011 shareholder letter: Cisco Systems provides routing, data and networking products for the internet. The company’s clients include corporations, public institutions and telecommunications companies worldwide. Cisco is financially strong and we think […]
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Dealbreaker posted the 1Q11 letter to shareholders from David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital. The hedge fund went long Yahoo last quarter – here’s why: The Partnerships established a new position in Yahoo! (YHOO) at an average cost of $16.93 per share. The company developed an extraordinary anti-shareholder reputation in recent years, […]
Dealbreaker posted the 1Q11 letter to shareholders from David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital. The hedge fund went long Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) last quarter – here’s why: Best Buy Inc. (BBY) operates consumer electronics stores in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe and China. The market is concerned that BBY has reached […]