Share buybacks often boost stocks and have supported the markets as companies “reinvest” by purchasing shares. An astonishingly high percentage of earnings is spent on these corporate buybacks. The money spent is under the guise of returning more money to…
REIT’s, short for Real Estate Investment Trust, are securities that invest in real estate. This vehicle is a much less capital intensive than buying a building for appreciation or rental revenue. Both large and small investments are accommodated by the…
Market breadth can provide important clues about what and importantly who is driving the market. A longstanding measure to evaluate the breadth of the market was created by Richard Arms going on 50 years ago. TRIN is short for TRading…
If you have started to acquire physical gold bullion, storage is an important issue that must be considered. When thinking about how or where to store your gold bars or coins. you essentially have three options. Store Your Gold at…
A stock is only worth what someone is willing to pay. Prices can always get cheaper, even for free falling stocks that you think will have value at some point. Let’s take a look at Twitter. Their stock has fallen from it $75 peak…
A seesaw visually represents the inverse relationship between interest rates and price. As interest rates rise, fixed income prices (e.g. bonds and notes) fall, and as fixed income prices rise interest rates fall. The Federal Reserve only has direct control over short…
Futures or commodities contracts offer investors and speculators a direct, highly leveraged vehicle to participate in the resource building blocks of the economy. Not long ago, limited market hours were less efficient with major price gaps up and down when…
A market assumption that makes life easier is to believe that liquid markets are fairly priced, that is, the wizards at Goldman Sachs would buy anything undervalued and sell anything overvalued to put things back in line. There may have been…
