What Stock Market Sectors are Gaining the Most from Low Rates?
We can officially count 2014 as another bad year for Wall Street’s investment strategists. Not only were they dead wrong about their prediction that interest rates…
Category: Industry Sectors
How to Improve Your Investment Performance by Playing Defense
“The best defense is a good offense.” That axiom has been applied in a broad array of fields including politics, sports, and the military. The…
3 Industry Sectors Vital to the Stock Market’s Health
Performance divergences, especially in key industry sectors, are either supportive or non-supportive of the broader stock market’s move. Although the S&P 500 (SNP:^GSPC) and Dow…
Corporate America’s Late Cycle Behavior
The pace of U.S. merger and acquisition (M&A) activity has erupted. Bankers and lawyers love it because it gives them work. And investors of the…
Stock Prices Are Cheap! Valuation Geeks Get it Wrong Again
“Stocks are cheap by historical standards” is the latest fiction being promoted by valuation geeks. Is it true? Meb Faber, proprietor of the Cambria Global Value…
3 Steps to Beating the Retirement Income Shortage
One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result. This is an apt description of retirement income…
Ready for the Next Surge in Volatility?
Is another surge in stock market fear and volatility ahead? Will you be ready when it happens? “Public psychology is the most important single factor…