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The June edition of Donald Coxe’s Basic Points research report (subtitled “Summer’s Storms and Norms”) has just been published. His investment recommendations, as summarized in this document, are listed in this post, together with a link to the full report. [...] More on this topic (What's this?) Harbinger, Spectrum Back In Spotlight (The DIV-Net, 5/16/12) Tom Gayner’s Reading List Added to ValueWalk (Value Investing, 4/13/12) Ford: Solid Gains This Year (Investment Underground » Page n..., 4/10/12)
“In the short run the S&P 500 Index may see an oversold bounce after the four days of selling. However, the inability of the previous rally to materialize into anything substantial and then to so quickly retreat certainly make us skeptical of the bulls,” said technical analyst Kevin Lane in this guest post. [...] More on this topic (What's this?) Economist Gary Shilling: S&P 500 will drop 43% this year? (Value Investing, 4/11/12) Is This Bull Market Over? (Investment U, 4/16/12) Sell in May and Go Away? No Way! (Wall Street Daily, 5/10/12)
In this video clip, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair talks to WSJ economics editor David Wessel about the financial-regulatory legislation pending in Congress, the current health of the banking business and what it’s like to be the sole woman among a band of powerful men. [...]
“Global business confidence held firm at the end of June, consistent with a global economy that is expanding at close to its potential. Sentiment has remained more or less unchanged since mid-April, suggesting that the European debt crisis has not appreciably impacted global growth prospects, at least not so far,” according to the results of the latest Survey of Business Confidence of the World by Moody’s Economy.com. [...] More on this topic (What's this?) Eurozone Descends into a Farce as "Grexit" Looms Large (Money Morning, 5/18/12) European Fiscal Compact In Crisis As Irish Vote Looms (Value Investing, 5/7/12) EU Officials Give Eurozone’s Firewall a Final Treatment (Wall Street Daily, 4/2/12)
This post features 50 revealing statistics about the U.S. economy, courtesy of BlackListedNews.com. As the author said, some of the stats are “almost too crazy to believe”. [...] More on this topic (What's this?) The Top 10 Dividend-Paying Stocks of the Last 50 Years (Investment U, 5/3/12) Government Wimps Out and Makes Super More Complicated (Moomin Valley, 4/27/12) Whitney Tilson Not Covering $GMCR Short (Video) (Value Investing, 5/2/12) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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