Interesting links for today: World Paper Money Gallery – View banknotes from nearly every country in the world The numeric keypads on London ATMs are as bacteria-contaminated as the seats of public restrooms, Cash machines ‘as dirty as toilets’ (Telegraph – Experts took swabs from the numeric key pads on […]
Author: James Hofmann Covestor Model: Dividend Growth Disclosure: Long EXC Commentary for January, 2011 Fitting into my general macro thesis of a continued bull market in commodities and our focus on conservative dividend value, I was trying to figure out a way to play this trade. I started thinking nuclear […]
Last night 60 Minutes presented a rare interview with Vegas legend Billy Walters, who’s made hundreds of millions of dollars as a sports gambler. Walters poured some of that profit into Enron, WorldCom and Tyco stock in the 90s and says he “got swindled” out of it when those stocks […]
Keep a little extra in the piggy bank for that summer vacation. We’re waiving 100% of Covestor management fees for three months on newly Funded Mirroring Accounts. Just sign-up for an account by Memorial Day, and you’ll pay no Covestor fees for the entire summer, through August 31, 2011. That’s […]
How bad does America’s 9.4% unemployment look on a current global scale? Bespoke Investment Group charted it out: They add: the reality is that the US ranks pretty poorly compared to the rest of the world. The Eurozone is at similar levels to the US, but when most of the […]
GOOD took recently released census data and created this map to show the link between education level and income – click through for larger version: The color combinations tell the story, as Cliff Kuang of FastCo Design explains: If a county is, say, orange… that’s a combination of yellow and […]
Piper Jaffray released a research report Friday that mentioned technology company Nanometrics (NASDAQ: NANO) may benefit from Intel’s (NASDAQ: INTC) increased capital spending in 2011. In 2009, INTC represented 10.4 percent of Nano’s revenue, so the impact of its increased capital spending could be substantial. As a result of this […]
This week we spoke with Paul MacNamara of Strategic Investment Partners Wealth Management about his firm and his Capital Appreciation ETF with Covestor. *See Important Disclosures Covestor LIVE: On the Strategic Investment Partners (SIPCO) website, it states that your firm uses an investment strategy for equity portfolios that is, “…based […]
*See Important Disclosures In the Deep Value model, manager Analytic Investments uses a set of valuation factors to determine what stocks to add to the model. These factors include low price to earnings ratio and high dividend yield. On their website, Analytic Investment talks about their method of portfolio management: […]
Merck (NYSE: MRK) stopped its clinical study for Vorapaxar, its cardiovascular drug developed to treat patients with acute coronary syndrome. The announcement issued by MRK mentions that the trial is going to continue for those patients who do not have acute coronary syndrome but have either had a previous heart […]