Category: Sector Analysis
The analysis published under this category are as follows.Friday, April 09, 2010
Retail Stocks XRT ETF No Signs of Peaking / Companies / Sector Analysis
The SPDR Retail ETF (XRT) is one heck of a bullish chart, which includes names like Whole Foods (WFMI), Sears (SHLD), OfficeMax (OMX), HSN (HSNI), Netflix (NFLX), Dress Barn (DBRN), and Family Dollar Stores (FDO). Purely from a pattern perspective, the XRT shows no sign of peaking, and is poised to hurdle Wed.'s high at 42.64. If the price structure moves vertically higher into a new upleg, it COULD make a run at its upper channel resistance lines in the 44.50- 45.50 target zone, or 5% to 7% more upside.
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Friday, April 09, 2010
Get Aboard the Consumer Spending Trend with Stock Sector ETFs / Companies / Sector Analysis
I’m a consumer. You’re a consumer. In fact, just about everyone you know is a consumer. But in these tough economic times, we often have to prioritize.
On the other hand, not everyone is closely watching every penny they spend. Some people are making — and spending — more money than ever! So today I’m going to tell you how to use exchange traded funds (ETFs) to take advantage of a recovery in consumer spending.
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Thursday, April 08, 2010
New Stock Sector Leadership Ahead / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
We just added new tools to analyze sector allocation on our U.S. Economics Monthly research. As of March 2010, the four sectors with highest momentums are consumer discretionary, industrials, technology and financials but that last one is starting to lose some steam (1 to 4). Can we expect these market outperformers to keep being the winners of the next 12 months? What is history telling us?
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Thursday, April 01, 2010
Three Ways to Profit From an Insurance-Sector Rebound / Companies / Sector Analysis
Jon D. Markman writes: Regional banks, investment bankers and insurance companies will be key winners in the next phase of an advance that will be characterized by very lukewarm participation by the average private investor.
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Sunday, March 14, 2010
US Retail Stocks Sector Surges. Consumer Confidence Returns / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
In the February newsletter I highlighted the consistent upward strength of the S&P Retail Index. This leading indicator of consumer confidence and thus economic health, had consistently outperformed many industry sectors throughout 2009 and also the broad-based S&P 500. Fundamental data generally looked unimpressive last year and many market watchers doubted the return of this important industry.
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Sunday, February 21, 2010
U.S. GDP and Outbound Tourism Disconnect / Economics / Sector Analysis
One of the first things you do when you are looking at a strategy for a new tourism destination or to re-vamp an old one is to look at your demand profile.
Putting aside the detailed explanatory variables big picture your baseline can normally be defined by the nominal GDP of source countries. So if you know where those are going you can have a peek at the future.
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
Asian Automakers Are in the Driver’s Seat / Companies / Sector Analysis
The funeral list of industries that have dared to compete against low-cost Asian competitors is long and getting longer. Just ask anybody in the textile, furniture, footwear, electronics, steel, clothing, or TV industry.
You’ll be able to add the automobile business to that list in the near future.
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Monday, November 30, 2009
Stock Market Sector-By-Sector Analysis / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
Yesterday, I noted that this market rally since March 2009 has been one of the most beta-heavy rallies in history. This means that picking out individual investments (individual stocks or companies) has contributed FAR less to investment success than the allocation of one’s money into the right “sector” or “asset.”
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Make 20 Times Your Money Investing in this Hated Industry / Companies / Sector Analysis
The simplest way to make a genuine fortune – we’re talking 20 to 50 times your money here - is to buy assets no one wants and wait for them to be wanted again.
In fact, we met someone who did it firsthand a few months ago. Over breakfast with Bob Quartermain, the president of Silver Standard Resources (NASDAQ:SSRI), your editor got the first-hand account of the company’s development.
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Thursday, September 03, 2009
Stock Market Sector Investing, Use Fundamental or Technical Analysis? / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
Sector rotation investing is a successful strategy that takes advantage of the stages of the business cycle to identify industry groups that are more likely to outperform the market in each stage. Sam Stovall helped to highlight the value of sector rotation investing with his book titled Standard & Poor's Guide to Sector Investing 1995.
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Sunday, August 16, 2009
Key Asset Category Stock Trend Lines Regression Analysis / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
Here are the simple moving average directions and linear regression slopes for 200-days and 100-days for representative funds or indexes for twenty-seven key asset categories that we follow closely.
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Saturday, August 15, 2009
Disappearing Consumers Hit Wal-Mart Sales and Profits / Companies / Sector Analysis
Bob Blandeburgo writes: The much-anticipated earnings report from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) and new data from the U.S. Department of Commerce yesterday (Thursday) showed that consumers are not only reeling in their discretionary spending, but may also be pulling the reins on the necessities.
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Thursday, August 06, 2009
Beer Companies Quench Their Thirst For Profits by Tapping Into Emerging Markets / Companies / Sector Analysis
Jason Simpkins writes: With sales volume plunging in Western markets, Molson Coors Brewing Co. (NYSE: TAP) and SABMiller PLC (OTC ADR: SBMRY) are tapping into emerging markets for refreshing growth.
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Investors Get On Board the Biotech Bandwagon with ETFs / Companies / Sector Analysis
Ron Rowland writes: The stock market isn’t just a big block of stone that moves all at once. So I’m always looking for market leadership. Even in a strong market, a smaller group is almost always breaking ahead.
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Sector Performance Analysis During the Stock Market Rally / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
Nilus Mattive writes: I spend a lot of time crunching data, reading third-party research, and studying market history. And one of my favorite things to watch is the relative performance of the individual market sectors.
Today, I’m going to give you the latest numbers on these important market groups, along with some additional thoughts about second-quarter earnings.
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
Stock Market Sector Rotation Portfolio Strategies / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
Aligning your portfolio with the next industries to lead the economy and bear the market is basic to a sector rotation strategy. The current recession is causing some significant changes to the underlying economy that will affect investors. Surprisingly, companies that benefit from their export business are seeing their opportunities expand. There are some fundamental reasons for this change that will help them sustain their export growth. Exports will be the leading reasons for the growth the U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for several years to come. Look to align your portfolio with the sectors that benefit from exports.
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Saturday, July 18, 2009
Which Investments? as America Shifts Towards Thrift / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
Mike Larson writes: Sometimes when we’re analyzing market trends … figuring out which investments to buy … or just trying to live our daily lives, we miss the forest for the trees.
We focus too much on the short-term trends and lose sight of the big picture. And we don’t think about what’s likely to happen over the next five or ten years because we’re just trying to make it through the next five or ten DAYS.
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Weak Fundamentals Mean U.S. Retaliers Will Continue to Struggle / Companies / Sector Analysis
Nilus Mattive writes: In last week’s column, I gave you some ideas on the kind of companies I currently favor … namely those firms that have strong brands, economically-insensitive products, and strong finances that allow healthy dividend payments.
I also said (again) that it was a good time to take money out of more cyclical stocks, particularly those that have run up recently.
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Thursday, July 02, 2009
Profiting From Stock Market Sector Dead Cat Bounces / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
To profit from Sector Dead-Cat Bounces one must first determine which Sectors do not Dead-Cat Bounce.
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Friday, June 26, 2009
Retail Stocks Sector on the Rebound / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
Neil Kokemuller writes: More and more sectors are lending evidence to support the call by Fed Chief Ben Bernanke and others of an economic recovery for the last half or 2009. On Thursday (June 25), it was the retail sector’s chance to shine. Despite a surprisingly lower jobless claims report, positive earnings reports and optimism from retailers helped drive stocks higher by two per cent, ending a four-day slide in equities.
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