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The Euro crisis is an excellent demonstration of how long-insolvent organizations can perpetuate the poor capital allocation and spending decisions that created their insolvency. Predicting exactly when the euro finally breaks down is a challenge, to say the least....
Two of the three stocks added to our large/mid cap Most Dangerous stocks list for November are from the energy sector. Those stocks are Energy XXI (Bermuda) Ltd. (EXXI) and Superior Energy Services (SPN) – both get my very dangerous rating as do all of the Most Dangerous stocks. Notably, Dynergy (DYN) also had my very dangerous rating when it announced bankruptcy might be in its future in late June of this year....
While emerging market stocks have been touted for the last couple years as the investment du jour, the message at an Eaton Vance outlook event this morning was quite the contrary....
Before I delve into the accounting loopholes used to prop 3rd-quarter earnings, I will start with pointing out the intimidating amount of choice for ETFs in the financial sector.
There are 25 financial sector ETFs. These 25 ETFs have drastically different stock holdings and, therefore, allocations. The lowest number of holdings is 24 while the highest is 496, per figure 1.
How is an investor interested in financial sector ETFs supposed to choose among all the many options?
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In 2010, David Garff, president of RIA firm Accuvest Global Advisors in Walnut Creek, Calif., hit the five-year track record on his investment strategy that analyzes and ranks countries, rather than stocks. He started off using the strategy in separate accounts and offshore mutual funds, but he wanted to market the strategy to a broader clientele. ...
Health stocks have faced strong headwinds. The sluggish economy has caused patients to postpone elective surgery, while pharmaceutical companies have been hurt by healthcare reform and expirations of patents on blockbuster drugs...
Despite an opportunity to buy stocks on the cheap, retail investors still have a risk-adverse bias, according to recent fund flows. Year-to-date through July, investors have yanked $17.8 billion from equity mutual funds, with outflows of about $31.6 billion in July and $22.9 billion in June, according to the Investment Company Institute. Meanwhile, about $95.4 billion has flowed into taxable bond mutual funds through July, including inflows of $12 billion in June and $9.8 billion in July, ICI said....
Tom Paine should have been a financial advisor. Attempting to bolster the spirits of Continentals after a retreat from a superior British force in the winter of 1776, Paine wrote, “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.”...
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