Fed Reduces QE And Investors Reduce Risk Appetite
This week’s Federal Reserve FOMC meeting was the first headed by new Chair Janet Yellen. Among the other novelties of this meeting was..
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Likely Outcomes of Herbalife FTC Probe
Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) disclosed today that The Federal Trade Commission is opening a civil probe into the business activities of the MLM..
Next Big Rotation is Out of Stocks into Bonds
uch has been written about the upcoming reduction of the Federal Reserve’s bond buying program known as Quantitative Easing. There has..
Optionality is Back in Blackberry’s Shares
The next Blackberry (NASDAQ:BBRY) breakthrough may not be hardware but software. A prescient question was recently posted on a popular..
In Defense of Dan Loeb’s Transaction with Yahoo
Yahoo’s shareholders and many pundits were happy with Yahoo until Monday when the company announced that it is buying back 40 million of..
About Those Great Fourth Quarter Earnings
If you tuned in, even sparingly, to any financial news outlet lately you would have probably heard a talking head or two attribute the..
Path of Least Resistance for Stocks Near Term
Stocks have been off to a great start in 2013 with the Dow Jones Industrial average reaching new highs earlier in March and the S&P 500..
Time to be Defensive & Scale Back Risk in 2013
Stocks ended 2012 with the best annual performance since 2009 with the S&P 500 index finishing up 16% on a total return basis...
How the Fiscal Cliff will be resolved and who has the upper hand in the negotiations
There is a lot of analysis, opinion, and fantasies when it comes to any fiscal cliff discussion but what is almost universally agreed to,..
Bank of America and Citigroup are understaffed not undercapitalized
Bank of America surprised market watchers today with announcing that it will suspend its recent dividend and stock buyback program that was..