Event Alerts for Responsible Investors. 2.1.2013
By Joe KernIn this week’s Event Alerts for Responsible Investors, we included 23 companies whose ESG and accounting risk profiles have been affected by recent...
View ArticleTwins!
If you want to know why I haven’t been writing much recently, here’s the reason:This Tuesday, January 29, at 6:45am, my wife Frances gave birth to twin baby girls. Alice Chovanec (Chinese name Cheng...
View ArticleGreat Graphic: Asset Class Peformance in January
This Great Graphic was on the Economonitor, It was originally posted on Capital Spectator by James Picerno. Clearly, as an asset class, equities did well in January, encouraged perhaps by global...
View ArticleTelefonica SA Exposes Investors to a Complex Mix of ESG Risks
By Damion Rallis, Senior Research AssociateA recent spate of regulatory fines, investigations, and tax issues at Spanish telecommunications provider Telefonica SA (MCE:TEF; NYSE:TEF) should compel...
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Shares Of Anheuser-Busch Do Shockingly Well In The Days After The Super Bowl
At Seasonal Odds we analyzed the average historical performance of Anheuser-Busch (BUD) as well as key market indices in the three trading days following the Super Bowl over the last 10 Super Bowls.BUD...
View ArticleWhy This Is The Most Anemic Recovery In Modern History
We are in the most anemic recovery in modern history, yet our political leaders in Washington aren’t doing squat about it.In fact, apart from the Fed – which continues to hold interest rates down in...
View ArticleBuying Stocks, Gingerly
Money has been flowing into bond funds for a long time. During the financial crisis of 2007-08 many of us contemplated hitherto unthinkable risks to our investments. I spent a few miserable evenings in...
View ArticleCaterpillar’s Siwei Mishap Reveals Management Challenges
Naveen Reddy, director of ratings and Sonja Ryst, research analystAfter Caterpillar Inc. bought a company in June for hundreds of millions too much, the equipment maker’s CEO Doug Oberhelman explained...
View ArticleU.S. Employment Situation – January 2013
The BLS reported this morning (see full report here),Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 157,000 in January, and the unemployment rate wasessentially unchanged at 7.9 percent, the U.S. Bureau...
View ArticleWill expatriation become illegal?
February 1, 2013 En route from Lima to SantiagoLet’s end this week with something that we haven’t done in many, many moons: a Q&A. Each week, my staff receives hundreds of questions from the...
View ArticleThe Biggest Loser
By: Peter Schiff Friday, February 1, 2013 In Switzerland, it's not just the clocks that are cuckoo. Over the past four years Swiss politicians and central bankers have gone on an unprecedented buying...
View ArticleWeekly Eurozone Watch
Key Data PointsGerman 10-year Bund 3 bps higher; France 1 bps tighter to the Bund; Belgium 1 bp wider; Ireland 4 bps tighter; Italy 17 bps wider; Spain 2 bps wider; Portugal 2 bp wider; Greece 36 bps...
View ArticleDelta Airlines Got an Oil Refinery: The Math Does Not Work
By EconMattersExxon Mobil Corp. (XOM), the world’s biggest energy company by market cap, said its 4Q profit rose to a five-year high boosted by its refining arm from growing supplies of cheap U.S....
View ArticleDaily ETF Roundup: Bulls Return On Encouraging Labor Data
The bulls charged ahead on Wall Street today, starting off the month of February with bang. Encouraging U.S. data sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average rallying past the psychologically important 14000...
View ArticleU.S. Equity Sector ETF Weekly Performance – February 1
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View ArticleWeekend Lecture: Ping Fu, Bend Not Break
This is a great story!CEO of GeoMagic Ping Fu discusses her book – “Bend not Break: A Life in Two Worlds” with Google’s Chade-Meng Tan.***********************************************************(click...
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The Audi-Lexus Price Gap Has Gone Crazy In The Last 3 Month
Say you’re a Doc, working out of NYU Hospital on 1st and 34th, and on October 29 you park your car in the lot next door. Sandy rolls in, and the next morning your car is 20 feet underwater. You’ve got...
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According To ECRI's Lakshman Achuthan, We Are 8 Months Into A Recession
The Weekly Leading Index (WLI) of the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) slipped in the latest public data. It is now at 129.7 versus the previous week's upwardly revised 130.7 (previously...
View ArticleCurrency Positioning and Technical Outlook: Stick to the Paths of Least...
The main drivers of the foreign exchange market have strengthened. This means that the current trends, especially euro strength and yen, sterling and dollar bloc weakness are likely to persist. The...
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The 'Help Wanted' Index Is Sending A Cautionary Signal
The Conference Board publishes a monthly "help wanted" index which tracks the number of Total Online Help Wanted Ads and the Number of New Ads. The data for this series currently goes back to 2005...
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