The Core model managed by Robert Foo combines a macroeconomic approach and behavioral finance. The end result is an analysis of how investors will react to various market influencers. The model’s goal is to outperform the market over full economic cycles. The top holding in the model is Direxion Daily […]
The ADP October 2010 National Employment Report (which you can access here) announced an increase of 43,000 private-sector jobs during the month of October. The report also states that job gains since February have been increasing with an average of 34,000 new jobs per month. New orders for manufactured goods […]
Pfizer Inc (NYSE: PFE) and Archer Daniels Midland Co (NYSE: ADM) released their quarterly financial results today. ADM reported net earnings of $345 million for the first quarter of 2011, down $151 million from the same quarter of 2010. Their reported earnings per share were $0.54, down from quarter one […]
The October 2010 Manufacturing ISM Report On Business from the Institute for Supply Management was released today and it put PMI at 56.9 percent, an increase over September’s 54.4 percent reading. Since any reading above 50 indicates growth, this is good news. You can see the full report here. Investors […]
In the day trading model, Management Access, manager Douglas Estadt buys the stocks of small to mid cap companies with credible growth stories and recent news that can affect stock price. Recently, he added Verizon Communications Inc (NYSE:VZ) to the model. In the seemingly endless wireless communication showdown, VZ has […]
The High Growth model managed by Joseph Mjelde is focused on stocks with consistent revenue and earnings growth of 20 percent or more. Mjelde also looks for those stocks that should have continued growth due to the trends of their respective industries. The model keeps 10 or more holdings and […]
In his Deep Fundamental Analysis model, manager Tab Buford reviews quarterly and annual reports and looks for companies that have a demonstrated ability to grow sales, book values, earnings and cash flows over many different economic cycles. One of the top holdings in the model is The Hershey Company (NYSE: […]
Analytic Investment has been adding many new positions to their Focus ETF model recently. Last week we told you about the model and a few of the new positions they had added, and this week we’re back to tell you some more. On October 18th, they added shares of iShares […]
Opportunistic is a model managed by Jafet Mendoza that may contain any U.S. major exchange-traded equity. It is diverse, holding the stocks of companies in many different industries, and is also aggressive, opportunistic and flexible. Last week, Mendoza added several new positions to the model, including Eldorado Gold Corp (NYSE: […]
The Department of Commerce released their National Income and Product Accounts Gross Domestic Product, 3rd quarter 2010 advance estimate today. According to the report, GDP increased at an annual rate of 2 percent from the second to the third quarter, which was a greater rate than the prior quarter and […]
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 […]
The Scarecrow Trading model managed by Leonard Fox looks for five signals that indicate market exposure and trades leveraged ETFs. This week, Fox added ProShares UltraShort QQQ ETF (QID) to the model. QID’s goal is to provide results equal to 200 percent of the inverse of the NASDAQ-100 Index, an […]