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The negative news about the economy continues and yet the stock market has kept going up. This divergence reinforces one of the key lessons of active management, which is that the broader the financial instrument, the less predictable the movement … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Crisis, Investing, Market Recap, Market Trends
Tagged AAPL, Apple, Economy, Market Recap, Risk Tolerance
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Market Volumes and Lessons from M&A
Equity markets are being propped up by impressively cheap money: central bank liquidity injections and the overtime-price of money, interest rates. Typically during times of rising equity prices, merger and acquisition activity ramps up. Most expected 2013 to be a … Continue reading
Posted in Interest Rates, Investing
Tagged Equity Markets, Interest Rates, M&A, Market Volumes, Warren Buffet
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GDP & Corporate Growth
None of the four major components of the business cycle, (real income, sales, production and employment) have managed to get back to their 2007 highs, even now as we enter the fifth year of the recovery. This is truly a … Continue reading
Posted in Investing, Market Trends
Tagged Corporate Growth, employment, GDP, production, real income, sales
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Corporate Earnings
As we head into the first quarter’s earnings season, 78% of companies have issued negative earnings preannouncements, the highest percentage of companies issuing negative earnings guidance since FactSet began tracking the data in Q1 2006. The chart above shows in … Continue reading
Posted in Earnings, Financial Crisis, Investing, Market Trends
Tagged Corporate Earnings, Guidance, Power and Money, Preannouncements
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Your Money
The financial repression exemplified by the Federal Reserve’s zero interest rate policy (ZIRP), that was begun on Dec 16, 2008, has many side effects. One of these side effects is to drive down the interest income that savers and investors … Continue reading
Posted in Investing, Market Recap, Market Trends
Tagged Bond Managers, Bonds, Federal Reserve, International Bond Fund, Market Recap
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Federal Reserve
It took the federal government around 200 years to accumulate a trillion dollars in debt. Within the following decade it tripled that number, then doubled it again in just twelve years, and doubled it again in another 8 years. Overall … Continue reading
Sequester Mania Ignores Other Warning Signs
On February 26th Lenore Hawkins joined Neil Cavuto to discuss the apoplectic fits of politicians and the media all over the country concerning the sequester, which represents a rather small decrease in the increase of government spending. Yes you read that … Continue reading
Lenore Hawkins joins Cavuto to discuss Facebook founder renouncing U.S. citizenship
On May 17th, Lenore Hawkins joined Jonathan Hoenig and Rick Ungar on Neil Cavuto’s Fox Business show to discuss Eduardo Saverin, one of the Facebook founders, renouncing his U.S. citizenship.
Posted in Investing
Tagged Cavuto, Eduardo Saverin, Facebook, Jonathon Hoenig, Lenore Hawkins, renounce, Rick Ungar, U.S. citizenship
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Bearish on gold? Not by a long shot!
Turn on CNBC or read most of the mainstream investment periodicals and you’ll see all kinds of comments about the happy-go-lucky bull market and a plethora of pokes aimed at those who didn’t buy into the recent bull run. For … Continue reading
Posted in Investing
Tagged China, Earnings, ECB, eurozone, gold, Lenore Hawkins, Spain
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Comparative History: 2012 vs. 1998
The first quarter of 2012 was a stunner in the equity markets, giving us the best first quarter since 1998, which begs the question, what did 1998 look like relative to 2012? 1998 2012 Sector trends Beginnings of an enormously … Continue reading