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The Yuppie Bounce4 comments

Joshua M Brown wrote 3 months ago: Starbucks vs Wal-Mart Since the Market Bottomed Go try to find an interview with virtually any sell- … more →

Tags: Analysts, Economy, journalists, Markets, Stocks, Trading, Wall Street Terminology, coach, Consumers

Overweighting financials

Tan Adriaan K wrote 3 months ago: Here’s a chart from Bespoke Investment Group on institutional investors’ industry weight … more →

Tags: Interesting, Graphs/Visuals, Financials, technology, Materials, institutional investors

Consumer Staples--trading down may be more severe than Wall Street expects

dduane wrote 5 months ago: When investors focus on consumer staples, their first thought is that income growth is slow but stea … more →

Tags: Industry Analysis, Strategy, Stock Market, Business, Finance, Economy, Money, Investing, Inflation

Lows And Highs on Dividend Yields

etfsandmore wrote 5 months ago: A few years ago dividend investing was as much out of style as bell bottom jeans. But just as people … more →

Tags: DIVIDEND YIELDS, Financial sectors

US stocks end high on tech gains (1)

dhirendra08 wrote 6 months ago: Good morning friends.  There is this gains in financials and technology.  It’s striking and they lik … more →

Tags: Brief Pullback, Lack of Broad Conviction, Bit of Correction, Sustainable Gains, Biggest Lifts, Lower Market, gains, Volume, Rally

Defensive Stocks Go Down Less, But They Still Go Down1 comment

Joshua M Brown wrote 1 year ago: Consumer Staples Index (XLP) Vs. S&P 500 During Bear Market of 2008 As surely as day follows nig … more →

Tags: Add new tag, Bear Markets, defensive investing, manifesto, Mutual Funds

Back To Tap Water8 comments

Jon Taplin wrote 1 year ago: You know things are getting bad when Pepsi Cola shuts down six bottling plants. Tap water is making … more →

Tags: Economics, advertising, recession, Business, Wall Street, credit crisis, pepsi cola, discretionary spending

In Defense of Food : An Eater's Manifesto

chris wrote 1 year ago: A while ago there was a write-up on VIC for the consumer staples ishare, XLP. It was an excellent wr … more →

Tags: Book Reviews

Shopping @ Sam's Club

dagreatguru wrote 1 year ago: I went shopping at Sam’s Club in Evanston yesterday — mainly for contact lenses and gaso … more →

Tags: Consumer Discretionary, Retail, Cross Selling, Sam's Club, Walmart, Wholesale, cross-sell, upselling, Product Promotion

Pizza and movies

dagreatguru wrote 1 year ago: When I was young, one of my favorite escapes for the evening with mom and dad was the whole order-in … more →

Tags: Consumer Discretionary, Pizza, Movies, Netflix, Blockbuster, Cross Selling, Selling, Marketing, Family Night

Connors Brothers Income Fund - Update

norm wrote 1 year ago: As I expected, CBF is resuming its monthly distributions beginning in March 2008 (see news release). … more →

Tags: turnaround, CBF.UN, Income Trust

Connors Brothers Income Fund - Buy

norm wrote 1 year ago: Connors Brothers Income Fund (CBF.UN on the TSX) is an income fund for Connors Brothers, a Canadian … more →

Tags: turnaround, CBF.UN, Income Trust

Leveraged ETFs - The Leverage Mix-UP

etfupdater wrote 2 years ago: I’ve come across many market participants believing if they purchase a leveraged ETF and held it for … more →

Tags: ETF, Swing Trading, Exchange Traded Funds, Investing Defensive Stocks, ETF Education, Hedging Probability, Sector Rotation, 200, Leveraged ETFs

ETF Swing Trading - Hedging The Portfolio

etfupdater wrote 2 years ago: I’m a trend trader and trend traders tend to weight their portfolios more heavily in the same direct … more →

Tags: ETF, Swing Trading, Exchange Traded Funds, Investing Defensive Stocks, Hedging, Market Neutral, correlation, Volatility


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