13 November, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Will the Dollar Bull Market Catch You by Surprise?
Will the Dollar Bull Market Catch You by Surprise?
By: Brad at www.CapitalistExploits.at
A bull market in the US Dollar is underway and its magnitude and duration are likely to catch everyone by surprise. I believe it isn’t out of the question for the USD Index to advance by at least 50% within the next 5 years. If this forecast proves correct, there will be profound ramifications for the global economy and many financial markets, particularly emerging markets.
13 November, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Authors may be long-term losers in Hachette-Amazon deal
Authors may be long-term losers in Hachette-Amazon deal
Amazon and Hachette announced the end of their book selling feud, but it may be authors who lose out in the settlement.
13 November, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Trading oil’s bearish momentum
Trading oil’s bearish momentum
Dissecting crude’s decline and what a deal between Halliburton and Baker Hughes could mean for the space, with the Fast Money traders.
13 November, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on October 2014 U.S. Video-game Sales Results: Hardware +59% y/y, Software -27% y/y
October 2014 U.S. Video-game Sales Results: Hardware +59% y/y, Software -27% y/y
Photo Credit: Take-Two Interactive NPD October 2014 video-game sell-through results are out tonight. This is the gold standard for video-game geeks who want to know how games are selling and which titles are doing well. Thankfully since I’m covering the sector for Yahoo Finance, NPD was kind enough to send me the data. Total video game sales came in at $790.7 million, about flat vs. last year. Video-game hardware sales were $273.5 million, +59% year-over-year. However that is a slow down from the +136% year-over-year growth last month.
13 November, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Industry Reacts to Approval For Nontransparent ETMFs
Industry Reacts to Approval For Nontransparent ETMFs
Will the newly approved, nontransparent exchange traded managed fund (ETMF) structure be a game changer for the ETF industry? Eaton Vance (EV), the $294 billion, Boston-based mutual fund giant, certainly seems to think so. The firm hailed the Securities and Exchange Commission’s nod last week to its ETMF proposal as a regulatory milestone.
13 November, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Are Health Care Funds Taking PEDs?
Are Health Care Funds Taking PEDs?
Health care mutual funds have outperformed the S&P 500 by a wide margin in the past 15 years and have really taken off the past two years. You’d be sitting on $48,522 today if you’d invested $10,000 in the average health care fund on Sept. 30, 1999, according to Morningstar data. The same investment in the S&P 500, which tracks the broad stock market, would have grown to $21,149.
13 November, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on And This Is How Central-Planning Broke Housing
And This Is How Central-Planning Broke Housing
First, they broke the capital markets. Then, the money-printing central-planners broke the housing market too. Here, in under 200 words, is a real-life case study of just how they did that.
The surge in home prices across Sydney has come even as the supply of properties for sale expanded, according to RP Data Pty. About 70 percent of homes that go to auction each week are sold, the researcher said in a Nov. 3 statement.