This week’s initial jobless claims report from the Department of Labor (see the full report here) showed a total of 23,000 fewer claims for the week ending October 16th. This drop helped reduce the 4-week moving average by 4,250 claims. The Conference Board’s Leading Economic Index had a .3 percent […]
Micheal Arold’s Technical Swing model uses technical indicators to view market movement and looks to create profits on short-term price swings. He recently added Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc (NYSE: POT) to the model. POT has had some pretty wild price swings lately. On October 13th, it closed at $148.47. […]
Today was a big day for economic data. First, the Mortgage Bankers Association released its Weekly Application Survey for last week. According to the survey, mortgage loan applications reduced by 10.5 percent from the previous week, indicating a possible further slowdown in the housing market. Then, the Federal Reserve Board […]
Index Fund (THD), a fund that attempts to mirror the performance of the MSCI Thailand Investable Market. In order to do so, 90 percent of the fund’s underlying
We have selected the companies that have indicated that they will make their earnings announcement in the next few days and created four categories
In her International Yield model, manager Vivian Lewis looks for international closed-end funds and stocks with a high yield. Recently she added ClickSoftware Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ: CKSW) to the model. CKSW provides automated software and workforce management solutions to businesses. The company recently released a new application for appointment management […]
Model manager GEARS looks for accelerating Canadian companies that trade on U.S. exchanges to add to their Bluenose model. They find positions by analyzing financial statements and look for recent improvements in growth. The top holding in the model is EnCana Corp (NYSE: ECA). ECA specializes in the exploration and […]
Model manager Analytic Investment added two new positions to their Focus Value model recently. In the model, they use algorithms to look for equity mispricing as a result of market inefficiency. The first position they added was senior, community, nursing and assisted care living facility operators Five Star Quality Care […]
The Census Bureau released its new residential construction data from September today. While building permits for privately-owned homes were down 10.9 percent compared to September of 2009, they were up from August 2010. Single-family housing starts were up 4.4 percent and single-family completions were up 4.8 percent from the previous […]
GameStop is the largest video game retailer in the world and sells new and used video game software, hardware and accessories for video game systems from Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft. In addition, the company sells PC entertainment software, and related accessories.
Although the model was just recently launched (inception date of August 25, 2010), the Craigmillar Global Clean Energy-Clean Tech strategy has five years of live performance and is benchmarked to the WilderHill Clean Energy Index (ECO-P). The ECO-P index also has an ETF attached with the symbol PBW and has been trading in the open market since the 3rd Quarter 2004. Both portfolios focus on the long-term trends of renewable energy, power delivery, energy storage, energy conservation and clean fuels all of which lead to energy decarbonization.
Friday afternoons and weekends have long been observed an opportune time for low profile public companies and Closed-End Funds to disseminate undesirable but market-relevant news. The conspiracy theory explanation infers that if nobody is around on Friday afternoons, the news will be ignored or forgotten by the time Monday rolls around. I’m not a big believer in the theory, but I attempt to be alert at all times.