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Catching a Falling Knife – Ouch
Groupon is no stranger to controversy. Even prior to its IPO, web forums were questioning the effectiveness of the service, and the legitimacy of its business. Its initial filing documents drew heavy...
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Apple – Growth? Value? or The In-Between?
This coming April 23rd, Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, takes the next step to avoid becoming John Sculley. On the heels of the results from supplier, Cirrus Logic (CRUS), which reported inventory gluts related...
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1994 Revisited
“I worry now — I look out of the corner of my eye to the ‘94 period,’’ Goldman Sachs’ Lloyd Blankfein noted at a conference in Washington sponsored by the Investment Company Institute. The Federal...
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‘94 Tough on Financials, but Rebound in ‘95 Worth It.
I guess everyone went home… Back to the Future As a side note to yesterday’s 1994 Revisited: We mentioned that the top 50 capitalized Financial Sector names were the worst performing group in 1994...
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Forward v. Trailing
We were reviewing Merrill Lynch’s September Quantitative Review last week. The 65-page book published by Savita Subramanian reviews numerous investment styles’ performance over particular timeframes....
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September Celebration
Well… despite all on the domestic horizon mixed in with a global political crisis (the Syria confrontation/non-confrontation), September sure worked out well for equities. After an up-and-down summer,...
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Good Companies Don’t Always Equate to Good Investments
Last week, we introduced you to QSG Management. QSG was a made-up name, but a real firm that has been in business since the 1980s. We used the Bloodhound System to learn a lesson in one afternoon what...
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Rocktober – Bigger was Better
Once again during 2013, the S&P posted a 5% or greater total return in a month. Following a 5.2% return in January and a 5.1% return in July, October was another rockin’ month for the S&P 500...
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Movember
Sorry for the lack of posts recently. Given the short week and a busy doghouse, time for posts has been scarce. However, after four days since the end of November, we do want to summerize our sector...
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Momentum Revisited
As we discussed last week, momentum is among the prominent anomalies in stock markets. A momentum strategy that buys winner stocks with higher recent returns and/or shorts loser stocks with lower...
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