Taxable and healthcare deals dominate the upcoming week’s $8.7 billion new-issue calendar, with issuers in Oregon, Florida and Texas leading the way. Municipal bond yields barely budged on Friday, ending the week just about where they started. Yields were steady along the AAA scales. Primary marketIHS Ipreo estimates supply for the upcoming week at $8.7
Month: September 2020
As you can see in the following chart, it’s been a bit of a volatile year for the Credit Suisse Silver Shares Covered Call ETN (NASDAQ:SLVO) with shares seeing both substantial upside and downside throughout the course of this year’s market turbulence. I believe that buying SLVO at these levels makes for a good play,
Investors turned on their favorite group of stocks recently, dumping tech shares in historic numbers and increasing their bets against the sector amid a September sell-off. The move came just before the shares began to stabilize this week, but it remains to be seen whether the bearish tilt represented the kind of capitulation that marks
Tesla vehicles are displayed in a Manhattan dealership on September 08, 2020 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Bristol-Myers Squibb — Shares of the pharmaceutical company rose 1.2% after it announced positive interim results from a phase three trial of an immunotherapy drug
Sir David Adjaye’s Lost House in King’s Cross, London, offers dramatic living spaces in a … [+] sought-after location The Modern House Sir David Adjaye’s seminal Lost House in London is up for sale for $8.2 million, offering a rare opportunity to buy a private residence by the acclaimed Ghanaian-British architect. The 2004 concrete house,
Katie Farmer, incoming CEO of BNSF Railway, told CNBC on Friday that her industry has clearly been impacted economically by the coronavirus pandemic, but there’s optimism on the horizon. “We have seen the economy start to pick up relative to rail loadings,” Farmer told “Squawk Box.” While BNSF, owned by Warren Buffett-led Berkshire Hathaway, anticipates a rebound,
S&P Global Ratings said a recent nine-notch rating cut to a small Illinois-based housing bond stems from an analytic mistake that dated back to the original review. The credit is not publicly traded and the error is likely a one-off, the rating agency said. S&P earlier this month downgraded the Illinois Housing Development Authority’s series
Clean-energy stocks and exchange-traded funds are on a tear this year, sharply outperforming the broader market and traditional fossil-fuel investments. The clean-tech ETFs with the most powerful year-to-date rallies include Invesco Solar ETF TAN, +0.35%, up 81% through Thursday; First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge Green Energy Index Fund QCLN, +1.32%, up 58%; and iShares Global
The CEF market tends not to be the most efficient market due to the difficulty in obtaining quality data and the presence of low-information investors. This creates a number of opportunities for discerning investors to enter into attractive strategic positions or to make tactical allocations. In this article, we describe one such opportunity to rotate
Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple, speaks at the 2019 Dreamforce conference in San Francisco on November 19, 2019. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images With all due respect to the late, and great, Tom Petty, when it comes to today’s stock market averages, it’s “the weighting that is the hardest part.”
A computer-generated image from interiors contractor Portview shows how office space may be segregated as people go back to the workplace after the coronavirus lockdowns are eased. Portview What will the post-Covid workplace look like? Steelcase is one of the largest manufacturers of office furniture — desks, chairs, storage products and office pods — and
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Accenture (ACN) – The consulting firm reported quarterly profit of $1.70 per share, falling 3 cents a share short of Wall Street forecasts. Revenue also came in slightly shy of estimates and the company gave a weaker-than-expected current-quarter revenue forecast, as clients spend less
New York can improve rent-stabilized housing policies to benefit tenants. Ariel Property Advisors The Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019 (HSTPA) left landlords of rent-stabilized multifamily properties to wonder why they should invest further capital in their buildings. Prior to the HSTPA the formula was simple: owners could raise rents in order to
Mary L. Trump interview on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow MSNBC President Donald Trump and two of his siblings were sued on Thursday by their niece Mary on fraud charges accusing them of swindling her out of millions of dollars to which she was entitled after the death of her father. “For Donald J. Trump, his sister
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard, in the most upbeat comments by a central banker since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, said the U.S. economy may surge at a 35% annualized rate in the third quarter and the nation may be close to a complete recovery by year-end. Rapid expansion in
Two months ago, I wrote a piece on Aris’ RPAR Risk Parity ETF (RPAR). In it, I argued that the fund was “a great gateway approach to improve a portfolio’s risk-adjusted return potential quickly and without frills”, and that RPAR “could not only complement, but even replace equity-only investments altogether”. Since then, and although the
In this photo illustration, the Interactive Brokers LLC logo seen displayed on a smartphone. Igor Golovniov | LightRocket | Getty Images Market action around the election is expected to be so volatile that Interactive Brokers is forcing clients to put up more money in order to trade using leverage. The retail broker is increasing margin
Shoppers, some wearing PPE (personal protective equipment), of a face mask or covering as a precautionary measure against COVID-19, queue to enter a recently re-opened Nike store at Gunwharf Keys shopping centre in Portsmouth, southern England on June 16, 2020. Adrian Dennis | AFP | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday
Indoor gardening is one of the perks at Waterline Square NOE & ASSOCIATES/THE BOUNDARY “It wasn’t so intuitive that the indoor gardening and boxing gym belong in the same place,” said architect David Rockwell. “Or the half-pipe skatepark.” To hear New York architect David Rockwell describe his latest project—a 100,000-square foot amenity level in New
Eric Trump speaks in Portsmouth, NH on Sept. 17, 2020. Eric Trump, son of President Donald Trump, makes a stop in Portsmouth during one stop on his ‘Make America Great Again!’ tour. Erin Clark | Boston Globe | Getty Images A lawyer for the New York attorney general’s office argued Wednesday that President Donald Trump‘s
Gross domestic product on a monthly basis has reclaimed the losses suffered as a result of the economic shutdown to stop the spread of the coronavirus, according to Fitch Ratings, but output remains below pre-pandemic levels and will for some time, experts agree. “The monthly flow of US economic output was back to within 2%
Today I continue my series of articles on dividend-oriented ETFs with a piece on WisdomTree U.S. High Dividend Fund (DHS). To begin with, I would like to highlight its low expense ratio of 0.38%, low volatility underpinned by a 60-months beta of only 0.88, a substantial standardized yield of 4.6%, and the methodology that factor
An AWS Ground Station satellite antenna at one of the company’s data center in Boardman, Oregon. Amazon Microsoft will offer a new service called Azure Orbital that connects satellites directly to its cloud computing network, the company announced at its Ignite conference Tuesday. The service will begin in a “private preview” to a select group of
Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Amazon – Shares of Amazon climbed nearly 3% after Bernstein upgraded the e-commerce giant to outperform from market perform. The Wall Street firm said the recent pullback created an attractive “entry point” for the stock, adding it undervalued the
Construction nears completion on a new Toll Brothers Inc. home that has already been sold in … [+] Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S., on Sunday, May 23, 2010. Rates for 30-year fixed mortgage loans fell to 4.84 percent in the week ended April 20, a five-month low, according to figures from Freddie Mac. Falling home-loan rates
A home for sale is seen in Santa Monica, California. Lucy Nicholson | Reuters After a record-setting July, the housing market still shows no sign of cooling off. Sales of existing homes rose 2.4% to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 6 million units, according to the National Association of Realtors. Sales were 10.5% higher
The housing market continues to be the poster child for the economic recovery, with August numbers showing a third straight month of gains, with sales at the highest pace in nearly 14 years. Existing-home sales rose 2.4% in August to a seasonally adjusted 6.00 million pace, up from a 5.86 million level in July, the
For the 55 calendar years from 1965 through 2019, Berkshire Hathaway’s stock rose at an 18.6% annualized pace, versus 11.8% for the S&P 500 SPX, -1.11% . (Both returns reflect reinvested dividends.) Warren Buffett can take credit for this, and he appears to be very much in charge of Berkshire. But, given that he just
The current environment is creating an historic opportunity for gold. In response to COVID-19, the Federal Reserve has expanded the money supply at an unprecedented rate. Real interest rates are negative and are likely to stay that way for quite a while. Gold is a time-tested way to prepare for an inflationary environment that is
Nikola Motor Company Source: Nikola Motor Company In recent months, three story lines have captivated Wall Street: SPACs, electric vehicle companies and the rise of retail traders. The outsized success of the first two, and novice investors entering the market in record numbers, have led some investors to claim this is an indication of froth.
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