One important driver of what we’re seeing, via Global Macro Monitor: Egypt’s a nation with sustained 9+% unemployment, and around 40% of Egypt’s population of just under 80 million live on the income equivalent of roughly $2 per day (AFP). Meanwhile, food inflation in Egypt is running at about 17% […]
Daily Archives: January 30, 2011
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In this remarkable Q&A with Francis Ford Coppola, the esteemed filmmaker suggests another approach to making a living in the field: We have to be very clever about those things. You have to remember that it’s only a few hundred years, if that much, that artists are working with money. […]
In Davos, questioning the wine and the art – Felix Salmon and Dan Arieli World market valuation heat map – Seeking Delta Big mac inflation versus official inflation rates – The Economist’s Daily Chart Super Bowl Indicator: The Secret History – Jason Zweig, WSJ John Paulson racks up a second […]
January 27th, which fell to $20.20 on January 28th. CMCSA closed at $23.31 on January 27th, then fell to $22.84 on January 28th. In other MA news, Verizon
*See important disclosures. In Raymond Stoudt’s Innovative Companies Covestor model, the focus is on owning the stock of leading edge, unique companies, usually in the technology sector. Stoudt focuses on company analysis and technical data when choosing stocks for the model. He addressed this investment style in his October investment […]
Motorola Mobility Holdings (NYSE: MMI) shares plummeted Thursday after an earnings announcement that slightly exceeded analysts’ expectations, but also acknowledged some weakness in its smartphone business. MMI also forecasted a loss for quarter one 2010, which was not what analysts had anticipated. Investors took heed and the stock fell from […]
*See important disclosures. Analytic Investment added electronics manufacturing services provider SMTC (NASDAQ: SMTX) to its Focus Value model last week. Focus Value is a model that attempts to take advantage of equity mispricing opportunities caused by market inefficiencies. Over the past few months, SMTX has been focusing on growth. On […]