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An Overview Of Unconventional Monetary Policies

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:24:07 GMT

The excellent research edifice at the Bank of International Settlements have conjured up one of those papers which needed to be written (by Claudio Borio and Piti Disyatat) on the back of the myriad of different monetary policy responses we have observed in the contex of the economic crisis. The abstract and conclusion look as follows;[More...]

Alaska Gold Mining Stocks

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:58:35 GMT

Heart-pounding word of massive gold strikes in Alaska swept North America in the late 19th century. . . and the rush was on. Many of the fortune-hunters who set out on the journey were professionals. They were teachers, lawyers, doctors — even a mayor or two — who gave up respectable careers to search for buried treasure.[More...]

Investing In ADRs: The Most Powerful Way To Reduce Market Risk

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:56:31 GMT

It's official: You can reduce your investment risk simply by chucking darts at a list of stocks, then buying them. That's if you believe a Nobel economist, of course. His crude "experiment" was the start of "modern portfolio theory" decades ago. The downside, however, was that with a reduction of risk came a dampening of profits. So scratch that idea.[More...]

Financially Healthy Stocks With Attractive Valuations

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:56:39 GMT

Value Expectations teaches professional investors how to make more informed investment decision evaluating stocks on the basis of corporate performance, valuation, management quality, earnings quality, and other proprietary variables. These variables inevitably help identify companies that are potential long-term investments while avoiding potential torpedoes. However, during the financial crisis, leverage and a week balance sheet played a significant part when investors evaluated a holding. To help our institutional clients navigate the environment The Applied Finance Group (AFG) developed the risk analysis template specifically to model the healthiness of a company’s balance sheet. In addition to the risk analysis template we also developed a template that calculated an Altman Z-Score developed to identify companies that are most likely to go bankrupt. As professional[More...]

Dell In Troubled Waters

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:16:57 GMT

Hard times seem far from over for Dell (DELL). The company’s Chairman Michael Dell and Chief Executive Officer Kevin Rollins are encountering problems on all fronts. Trouble started with the Sony (SNE) laptop battery fiasco back in 2006, which prompted the company to recall over four million units. More recently, management decided to terminate its agreement with Intel (INTC) and use Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) chips instead. We believe this could impair consumer confidence, especially since rumblings of customer dissatisfaction are[More...]

Amazon’s Cloud: A SaaS Solution

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:08:45 GMT

Amazon.com (AMZN) is well known as one of the top e-commerce sites on the web, but over the last few years it has been adding a new component to its business model. Amazon has become a software as a service (SaaS) provider for enterprise clients through its on-demand cloud computing solution. SaaS is a rapidly growing and developing segment of technology, which follows a very different model than that of traditional perpetual license software sales. SaaS is still a nebulous and evolving concept, but in its most basic terms, SaaS is an on-demand delivery model that utilizes the internet to provide access to existing applications from anywhere with a web connection. Amazon.com provides its Web Services portal and in[More...]

Value Investing

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:56:00 GMT

All companies listed below met The Applied Finance Group's (AFG's) Buy screen criteria and are in the bottom half of their sector in Market Value/Invested Capital (MV/IC), which by definition qualifies the companies as part of the AFG Value Universe. When identifying buy ideas, AFG looks for companies with the most valuation upside compared to their sector peers, above sector median expected Economic Margin change, and a management quality score that reflects a management team following a wealth creating strategy. 9 Value Companies To Watch A brief description of AFG's buy criteria variables: AFG's Valuation[More...]

Will Oil Prices Prevent A Recovery?

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:44:00 GMT

The following two charts (and the comments in between them) are part of a very interesting article by James Hamilton. The collapse in oil prices last fall acted as a key economic stabilizer and helped ameliorate the economic decline. It showed up in two key places. The first was in the trade deficit numbers, which have shown a very dramatic improvement over the last year (see here and here). The other place it showed up was in retail sales, since a dollar spent at the gas pump is a dollar that can not be spent elsewhere. Since last Christmas, prices at the pump have climbed sharply, as shown in the first[More...]

Investing With The Stars

Tue, 26 May 2009 13:52:50 GMT

"Golf has Tiger Woods, novelists have Tom Clancy, and the investment community has stars such as Bruce Berkowitz, Bill Nygren, Charlie Dreifus, and Mario Gabelli," states Paul Tracy. In his The Street Authority Market Advisor he suggests, "These money managers are at the pinnacle of their craft." Here, he takes a look at these "celebrities" and some of their current top stock holdings. "These money managers[More...]

April 2009 Monthly Market Review

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:45:00 GMT

March has been an extraordinary month from a historic market perspective. The volatility we have become accustomed to over the past 7 months did not disappoint, as the S&P500 lost nearly 5% on the first trading day of March and hit its 13 year low on March 3. After February resulted in more stock market losses, the operative word among government officials was changed to “the economy was fundamentally ok.” The Fed and Treasury then launched a new program to pump $200 billion into the asset backed security (ABS) market to spur lending for non-mortgage consumer loans. Ben Bernanke then made an unprecedented move for a sitting Fed Chairman, granting widely watched 60 Minutes an interview, to stress his belief that America has averted the risk of a depression and a recovery could begin next year if the financial sector stabilizes, which he believes is happening. It is our opinion that among existing government finance officials, Chairman[More...]

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Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:05:00 GMT

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An Overview Of Unconventional Monetary Policies

Alaska Gold Mining Stocks

Investing In ADRs: The Most Powerful Way To Reduce Market Risk

Financially Healthy Stocks With Attractive Valuations

Dell In Troubled Waters

Amazon’s Cloud: A SaaS Solution

Value Investing

Will Oil Prices Prevent A Recovery?

Investing With The Stars

April 2009 Monthly Market Review

RidgewaterEquity.Com Free Fundamental Sector &Amp; Market Research on AIS, AMG, WAT, ALK, ALTU and ACXM

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StockPreacher Issues Trading Outlook for Varian Inc.

Waters Corporation Reports Second Quarter 2009 Results

Waters Drives Efficiency in the Clinical and Research Laboratory and Showcases New MassTrak Systems at AACC 2009

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Waters Empower 2 Business Intelligence Manager Adds a New Analytical Dimension: Analysis of Lab Operations

Waters Corporation Q2 2009 Financial Results Webcast Invitation

BenchmarkJournal.Com Free Analyst Review for ROP, LZB, GBG, IO, WAT and AGP

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