Market timing generally tend to be suitable for investing in emerging markets which an rise and fall sharply in just a few years or even months. However timing the market in developed country stocks is usually not a wise idea. However here is a chart showing the performance of S&P 5000 since 1997 that may …
In an article on European banks last month I suggested that it was not clear if rising stock prices of financials was an indicator of a bull market for the overall equity market. This post is an update to that discussion. According to a recent article in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, European banks have borrowed only a quarter of …
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Nick Ford, head of US equities at Miton of UK recently wrote an interesting article in Trustnet outlining his thesis for finding investment opportunities in the U.S. market regardless of the state of the direction of the U.S. market. From the article: Despite valid concerns about the ongoing resolution to the “fiscal cliff” and the …
Many U.S. companies are increasing share buybacks to goose up earnings. Buybacks of own shares is the preferred method for some companies to put unused cash to work. While theoretically buying back shares should reduce the number of outstanding shares and increase earnings per share it is not happening in the real world, according to an article …
Thousands of companies trade on the US exchanges. However only some of them are worth investing at any given time. In fact, some of these companies should never be listed in the first place. But they do trade for some reason. Hence for investors willing to invest their hard-earned money in the stock market, the …