By The Financial Lexicon : Fundamental analysis is only half the battle. One of the thorny aspects of investing is that even after performing the greatest due diligence in the world and thinking a stock is an absolute steal at a certain price, a stock, for a variety of reasons, can continue to sell
… it employs the firm's Intellidex multifactor quantitative model when weighting its components. Market Vectors Oil Services OIH has just undergone a change from its previous HOLDRs structure. It tracks the 25 largest and most liquid firms in the industry …
… is cheaper than its closest competitor. OIH levies a 0.35% annual fee. Alternatives ..... IEZ, is the most enticing alternative to OIH . IEZ charges a 0.47% annual fee. It ..... concentration as a benefit. That said, OIH concentrates over 70% of assets in the …
By The Independent Investor : It really wasn't that long ago that Exxon faced their version of the BP spill. Faced with an environmental disaster that was in many ways just as daunting as the crisis that BP paced, the economic cost and reputational damage that Exxon faced after the Valdez crisis ...
… join oilfield services competitor Baker Hughes ( BHI -5.9% ) in the red after the BHI profit warning . Morgan Stanley chips in, cutting HAL to equalweight as the battle for market share threatens margins. OIH -2.1% . 1 comment!
By BubbleBustInvesting : For more than three years, traders have focused on three trades: Buy commodities (mostly precious metals), buy US treasuries, and buy non-cyclical stocks, especially those paying hefty dividends. The reasoning behind these trades was an ever accommodating Fed determined to
By The Independent Investor : So Exxon Mobil ( XOM ) recently announced its new budget for the next 5 years. Well, not surprisingly, this 400 billion dollar company announced big plans and lots of new spending over the coming years, but its projections for future demand were interesting too. Exxon
Cameron International ( CAM ) has traded sideways since summer. But following earnings next week the stock could be poised to move higher. Rig activity remains at its highest since the mid 1980s and offshore drilling continues to offer growth, particularly as activity accelerates in the Gulf of ...
By Tim Ayles : Investors are funny. When the price of their stock goes down by a lot, they immediately begin to worry that the "market" knows something that they do not. Conspiracy theories begin to make their way into the investor's head, allowing them to justify the reason they sold near the ...
… mutual funds PCRDX, PCLDX ; ETFs for commodity baskets DBC, USCI (rotating 14 of 27 commodities) ; gold GLD, oil services OIH , natural gas UNG ; commodity stocks CRESY (farmland) , AGT.ca (specialty grain trading) , and meat producers SFD, TSN …