Yesterday, ADP’s National Employment report gave investors good news when it announced that the private sector had added 42,000 jobs between June and July. Today’s unemployment claims press release issued by the Department of Labor negated the good news by offering an adjusted figure for initial unemployment claims during the […]
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Disclaimer: John Rodgers owns RRC and MSB in his Covestor Resource and Commodity model. July 30, 2010: As the summer drags on, I continue to become more pessimistic with regard to the short-term. July seemed to represent a technical bounce from oversold levels and anticipation of positive earnings. The end […]
Disclaimer: John Mooney owns GOOG in his Covestor Under-Capitalized Sectors model. August 4, 2010: T. Rowe Price (the investor, not the firm he founded) isn’t mentioned much today, but in the mid-twentieth century he was well-known as one of the first modern proponents of growth stocks. He had clear criteria […]
This week, Robert Giannini, manager of the International Equities model added iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Fund (FXI) to his model of inverse ETFs and international equities. FXI is designed to mirror the performance of the FTSE/Xinhua China 25 index which is a collection of the 25 biggest and most […]
The ADP National Employment report was released today and it showed an increase of 42,000 jobs in the private sector from June to July. Additionally, the number of jobs added from May to June was adjusted from 13,000 (as previously reported) to 19,000. The report also mentions that while this […]
July 30, 2010: July was a decent month performance-wise. As of this writing, I have outpaced the SP500 for the month of July (Covestor). There have been
Author: CJ Brott & Karen Burns – Capital Ideas Disclaimer: In its Covestor Macro Plus Income and ETF Only models, Capital Ideas owns F, MFB, MHR, SWN, SIRO, JNK, PCEF, HAO, EWZ, and BRF as of July 26, 2010. July 26, 2010: On July 7, 2010 we offered our opinion […]
The S&P Best of Breed model managed by Conrad Leifur is designed with the goal of outperforming the S&P 500. It does so by investing in large and liquid S&P 500 stocks that have the potential to outperform others within their sector while maintaining representative sector weights. Another goal of […]
The quarterly report released by Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) today showed an impressive 9% increase in quarterly profit that beat analysts’ expectations. PFE also stated that their earnings for the year would end up being closer to the high end of their forecasts. Another company announcing quarterly earnings today was Procter […]
The GEARS Covestor model, Earnings Surprise, puts its focus on companies that are likely to deliver an earnings number that serves as a pleasant surprise to investors. Positions for the model are chosen by financial statement analysis during which the manager looks for low corporate costs, rising sales growth, increasing […]
These days, there are two ways investors can go to determine whether to be bullish or bearish about the market and economic recovery. Investors can look at positive earnings reports throughout the month of July mixed with the month’s more than 7% growth for the Dow Jones Industrial Average (rising […]