From The Economist, an interactive chart on when GDP in China will rise above America’s – you set the growth, inflation and exchange rate. The presets here are the ‘best guess’ from the editors at The Economist:
Do you own a power drill? Are you not a professional handyman? So here’s the deal: pulling the trigger on your wireless, 2-speed, high-torque Bosch does feel awesome, but on average that bad boy gets a grand total of just 12 minutes of use in its entire lifetime. If you could safely […]
Tom Morgan of Money.co.uk has a new graphic timeline called Tracking the Global Recession. One unique aspect of it: By using the links alongside each headline, you can find more detail about that particular event – however, rather than use traditional news sources, we’ve linked to quality blogs that reported on […]
The good folks at GOOD have produced this graphic to show government subsidies for different energy sources: The goal, as GOOD describes it, is to show how government policies “favor some types of energy over others, giving our country a skewed sense of what each gallon of gas or wind-powered […]
The Bottom-Up Analysis Agg model managed by Epic Advisors is the result of financial analysis and market timing. The model is a combination of day trading positions and core positions that are held until the stock reaches intrinsic fair value. The goal for market timed day trades is a return […]
According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, new residential construction rose 3.9 percent in November. Unfortunately, this was not enough to help us compete with November 2009 levels which we are still 5.8 percent below. Building permits for private homes were also increased, a total of 4 percent […]
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the trade deficit dropped 13 percent–from $44.6 billion in September to $38.7 billion in October. The report (which you can view here) illustrates this increase in demand for U.S. goods, but also shows that the gap between imported goods and exported goods is still […]
The Labor Department’s Weekly Claims Report for initial unemployment claims showed that claims decreased by 17,000 last week. This was an encouraging development given all the concern about employment—or the lack thereof—during recent weeks after the unemployment rate was raised to 9.8 percent and initial jobless claims rose last week. […]
The weekly mortgage application survey released by Mortgage Bankers Association today gave some bad news. The report (which you can read here) shows a decrease of 2.3 percent in mortgage applications seasonally and a 2.7 percent decrease from last week’s numbers. According to the Department of Labor, the Consumer Price […]
In her International Yield model, manager Vivian Lewis uses closed-end funds, stocks and preferred shares from countries outside the United States in order to create a portfolio with a target yield of 5 percent. Last week, she added offshore deepwater drilling company SeaDrill Ltd (NYSE: SDRL) to the model. After […]
The MergerArb model managed by Atlas Capital stays focused on US companies that are definite or potential takeover targets. Atlas Capital uses screening guidelines to choose which pre-takeover companies to add to the model. These guidelines consider liquidity, premium and share prices of the company. When a certain premium yield […]