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If you’ve read my columns on Forbes and ContrarianOutlook.com, you know my heart belongs to dividend-growth stocks. The reason is simple: dividend growers outperform every other kind of stock there is. But don’t just take my word for it. Study after study backs that up, including an exhaustive one by Ned Davis [...]
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Markets can be described as a reflection of investors’ sentiments, and the resulting market price a result of the continuous aggregation of the analysis and forward views of relevant market participants. In a similar fashion, elections are the confluence of the sentiments of voters. The result of it is ideally [...]
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Following further revelations about her email usage and amidst an FBI investigation, Hillary Clinton is now predicted to “win fewer states” than rival Donald Trump, but still come out on top and be crowned the 45thpresident of the United States according to the world’s largest sports spread betting business that [...]
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Over the weekend, the FBI cleared Hillary in the latest email scandal. As expected, this sparked a big rally on Wall Street as the market finally rallied from deeply oversold levels. Nearly every single measure of sentiment and normal price movement was stretched to the downside as of Friday's close. That set the stage for a big oversold rally. That is exactly what we are seeing. In addition to being very oversold, the market is bouncing back from its longest losing streak in 36 years!
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The prepaid wireless market has been looking relatively attractive to U.S. carriers, on account of growing attach rates of data plans, which is helping to bolster ARPUs and also due to an increasing shift to monthly billing cycles. The wholesale business has also been improving, amid higher connected device additions. [...]
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If the populist trend carried the day in the U.S. elections, what would the trade policies of a Trump White House look like and how might they impact trade across the Pacific?
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Another Australian energy project is hemorrhaging red, with U.S.-based oil major Chevron recently announcing that its Wheatstone gas project was now US$5 billion over budget, adding to a long line of budget blow outs and questionable decisions made by oil majors in Australia.
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The DoubleLine chief executive has warned investors for months to prepare for a Trump presidency.
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Here's how the markets are moving on Election Day as U.S. voters decide who controls the White House and Congress.
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Shares of Danny Meyer's burger-and-shake chain are up big in Wednesday's after-hours trading thanks to the better than expected same-store sales disclosed in its third quarter earnings report.
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