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The five safest countries for your money (in four graphs)

February 16, 2015 by 1 Comment

US stock markets have bounced back from a series of mini-corrections during the start of the year. It seems like there’s nowhere to go but up. But it might be time to start worrying about valuations. I’ve made the case in previous articles that low interest rates = higher stock prices as a matter of […]

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The Tremendous Value In Chinese Banks (If You Can Stomach The Risk)

February 10, 2015 by Leave a Comment

There are three questions you should ask before buying a stock. Is it cheap? Does it have a future? Is it safe? If you can answer those three questions with a resounding yes, then you’ve found value. But when you ask those questions, you need the broadest and deepest sets of data possible. For example, […]

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Man up and pick your stocks

February 6, 2015 by Leave a Comment

I’m going to start this article in an unusual way, with two apologies. First off, apologies to all the women who are both bolder and more intelligent than men. I know my wife is bolder than me, but “man up” was just the best turn of phrase to start this post. My second apology to […]

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What’s lurking on bank balance sheets?

February 5, 2015 by Leave a Comment

Yesterday I did a post on “How safe are your bank stocks from tightening monetary conditions?” Today I want to delve further into the four major US banks’ balance sheets to see what surprises we might find. All four banks — Bank of America (BAC), Citigroup (C), JP Morgan Chase (JPM) and Wells Fargo (WFC) […]

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How safe are your bank stocks from tighter monetary conditions?

February 2, 2015 by Leave a Comment

We like to think the Federal Reserve omnipotent over the monetary conditions in the United States. Indeed, if the Federal Reserve wants to inflate, it can do so. But while it strongly influences monetary conditions, sometimes loosening (tightening) can happen all on its own. The Fed can steer the ship, but not control the waves […]

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Beware of industries about to be upended

January 30, 2015 by 1 Comment

I’m an analyst at heart, so I love metrics and ratios and data visualizations that show how one investment will work and another will not. When I scour Google finance for the next big idea, I look for low price/book ratios, or low P/E ratios, or high dividend yields. But before you get caught up […]

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Does the rise of Syriza signal a one-way bet?

January 27, 2015 by Leave a Comment

Whenever there’s a risk of devaluation, the direction of risk seems to go in one direction only. Soros knew this when he famously bet against the pound in 1992 and “broke the bank of England.” As the German Bundesbank increased interest rates to fight an inflationary valuation of East German marks after unification, the British […]

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A visual analysis of car industry stocks

January 26, 2015 by Leave a Comment

As a value investor, I want to find stocks that trade at good ratios: P/E, price/book, price/cash flow, etc. But I also understand that the market is trading at higher-than-average ratios because of low interest rates. The car industry is one that looks more fairly valued. Just look at the median ratios of the major […]

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To invest well, you need the right mental model of the economy

January 23, 2015 by Leave a Comment

As a value investor, I appreciate good dividends, contrarian arguments and general bad news about my prospective investments. Like many other investors, I also freak out at the prospect of big market drops, especially with analysts screaming about high historical valuations. I get tempted to time the market, even though it’s not recommended. The chance that […]

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Does the ECB finally get it? What this means for Deutsche Bank

January 22, 2015 by Leave a Comment

Today Mario Draghi called on the ECB to inject 1.1 trillion Euros ($1.3 trillion) into government bonds in a bid to stave off deflation. The ECB has been strangely inactive as southern Europe experiences economic crisis and depression, and even northern Europe is starting to stagnate. The one bright spot has been the United Kingdom, […]

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