Friday, April 8, 2016

Clips from Today’s Halftime Report + MORE 11:19 pm Apr 8th

The Rally Has Been Broader this Time

– crossingwallstreet.com

Here are some interesting stats from Dani Burger at Bloomberg:
Weighted for size, the S&P 500 gained 6.6 percent in March for the best monthly gain since October. Stripping out market-value biases, shares posted a 7.7 percent advance, the strongest since October 2011. Viewed like this, stocks outpaced the S&P 500 by more than 1 percent for two consecutive months through March, the first time that’s happened since 2012…

Continue Reading On crossingwallstreet.com »

Clips from Today’s Halftime Report

– thereformedbroker.com

Watch the video inside.

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If one starts a discussion on activist investors or their campaigns today, there is only a slim possibility that the name Starboard Value LP won’t come up.  In the last five years since its separation from Ramius in 2011, the fund headed by Jeffrey Smith has launched 46 activist campaigns…

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Continue Reading On insidermonkey.com »

Silver: A Forgotten Commodity?

– investorsinsight.com

The article and charts display why silver is a neglected asset.  Since the beginning of the year, gold has returned handsome gains for its investors. However, during this same period of time, the returns from silver have been lackluster, as indicated and why you need to know why…
READ FULL ARTICLE: CLICK HERE

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Succinct Summations for the week ending April 8th 2016
Positives:

ISM Non-manufacturing index came in at 54.5, up from 53.4 previously.
New jobless claims fell to 267k, down from 276k previously.
The MBA mortgage composite index rose 2.7% w/o/w.
Bloomberg’s consumer comfort index held steady at 42…

Continue Reading On ritholtz.com »

Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, As I wrote on Monday, ever since I started reading about the Panama Papers “leak” something kept rubbing me the wrong way. From the absence of any well known, politically powerful Americans on the list, to the anonymous nature of “John Doe” as whistleblower and the clownish reporting from Soros and USAID affiliated organizations, the whole thing stunk from the start…

Continue Reading On zerohedge.com/ »

After more than a year of posturing, agonizing, and distress, the US Department of Labor (DOL) has finally released its conflicts of interest and fiduciary rules for personal retirement accounts, including IRA rollovers. Read more

Continue Reading On cfainstitute.org »

What To Do If You Can’t Pay Your Tax Bill

We’re closing in on Tax Day, which means some of us are handing over a sizable sum to our best friend, the IRS. But what happens if you simply don’t have the money to pay your tax bill? First and foremost, file anyway. Your bill won’t even come for a month, so if it’s an issue of waiting for a paycheck to come through, take a deep breath…

Continue Reading On dailyworth.com »



from Royalty Gateway http://www.royaltygateway.com/clips-from-todays-halftime-report-more-1119-pm-apr-8th/

The Rally Has Been Broader this Time

– crossingwallstreet.com

Here are some interesting stats from Dani Burger at Bloomberg:
Weighted for size, the S&P 500 gained 6.6 percent in March for the best monthly gain since October. Stripping out market-value biases, shares posted a 7.7 percent advance, the strongest since October 2011. Viewed like this, stocks outpaced the S&P 500 by more than 1 percent for two consecutive months through March, the first time that’s happened since 2012…

Continue Reading On crossingwallstreet.com »

Clips from Today’s Halftime Report

– thereformedbroker.com

Watch the video inside.

Continue Reading On thereformedbroker.com »

If one starts a discussion on activist investors or their campaigns today, there is only a slim possibility that the name Starboard Value LP won’t come up.  In the last five years since its separation from Ramius in 2011, the fund headed by Jeffrey Smith has launched 46 activist campaigns…

[[ This is a content summary only…

Continue Reading On insidermonkey.com »

Silver: A Forgotten Commodity?

– investorsinsight.com

The article and charts display why silver is a neglected asset.  Since the beginning of the year, gold has returned handsome gains for its investors. However, during this same period of time, the returns from silver have been lackluster, as indicated and why you need to know why…
READ FULL ARTICLE: CLICK HERE

Continue Reading On investorsinsight.com »

Succinct Summations for the week ending April 8th 2016
Positives:

ISM Non-manufacturing index came in at 54.5, up from 53.4 previously.
New jobless claims fell to 267k, down from 276k previously.
The MBA mortgage composite index rose 2.7% w/o/w.
Bloomberg’s consumer comfort index held steady at 42…

Continue Reading On ritholtz.com »

Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, As I wrote on Monday, ever since I started reading about the Panama Papers “leak” something kept rubbing me the wrong way. From the absence of any well known, politically powerful Americans on the list, to the anonymous nature of “John Doe” as whistleblower and the clownish reporting from Soros and USAID affiliated organizations, the whole thing stunk from the start…

Continue Reading On zerohedge.com/ »

After more than a year of posturing, agonizing, and distress, the US Department of Labor (DOL) has finally released its conflicts of interest and fiduciary rules for personal retirement accounts, including IRA rollovers. Read more

Continue Reading On cfainstitute.org »

What To Do If You Can’t Pay Your Tax Bill

We’re closing in on Tax Day, which means some of us are handing over a sizable sum to our best friend, the IRS. But what happens if you simply don’t have the money to pay your tax bill? First and foremost, file anyway. Your bill won’t even come for a month, so if it’s an issue of waiting for a paycheck to come through, take a deep breath…

Continue Reading On dailyworth.com »

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