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We often see insiders buying up shares in companies that perform well over the long term. Unfortunately, there are......
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- At this point, few superlatives are left to describe how historically expensive the bond market looks. The 30-year Treasury yield is just a few months removed from an all-time low of 1.9%. U.S. investment-grade corporate debt just posted its best year since 2009, returning 14.5%. Junk bond yields hit a five-and-a-half-year low of 5.08% and could keep going.Jeffrey Gundlach, DoubleLine Capital’s chief investment officer, sounded off on some of this during his annual “Just Markets” webcast earlier this week. He said long-dated Treasury yields are bound to rise and that double-B rated junk debt is one of the worst fixed-income investments available. But it’s his deputy CIO at DoubleLine, Jeffrey Sherman, who has a measure of the unprecedented market that might just be the scariest gauge of all for bond traders.The “Sherman Ratio” measures the yield on a bond, mutual fund or index relative to its duration. Consider the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (frequently...
Many investors are still learning about the various metrics that can be useful when analysing a stock. This article is......
Silver prices have fallen below the $18.00 level, as the sharp gains seen early in the week have evaporated. Iran and the U.S. appear to have de-escalated tensions, but the markets remain unsettled....
The "depth of the devastation" inflicted on Hong Kong's economy by more than six months of anti-government protests will be seen in the coming weeks, the chief of the city's stock exchange operator said on Thursday. HKEX itself posted its steepest profit slide in nearly three years in the third quarter, as investor sentiment was hit by months of unrest that pushed the city into recession for the first time in a decade. Li said what made Hong Kong great was "one country, two systems", and that he believed China would fundamentally come to the judgement that the two systems worked for the world's second-largest economy, even in the worst case scenario....
The main point of investing for the long term is to make money. But more than that, you probably want to see it rise......
