Tom Lydon ETF Trends submits: Thinking Caps Are Calling For Large-Cap Stocks And ETFs To Step Up As far as ETFs divvied up by cap size and growth vs. value, it's been all about the mid-caps so far this year. For the last three months, mid-caps have...
Finally, after years of planning, the FAA has decided to lift its limit on the number of flight caps at Chicago/O'Hare airport when a new runway opens this Fall. Does this mean we'll see a flood of new flights at the airport? I think not. by Brett Snyder
While the economy continues to send mixed signals and the markets remain volatile, some Morgan Stanley economists are expressing some cautious optimism about the outlook for the economy. The following article excerpts the latest economic views of Morgan Stanley economists. There was a great deal of optimism about the anticipated...
Caps on damages have emerged as the most controversial legislative response to the new malpractice crisis. The paper analyzes a sample of high-end jury verdicts in California that were subjected to the state?s $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages. It finds strong evidence that the cap?s fiscal impact was distributed inequitably...
Fluid milk processors have traditionally viewed the milk container as merely an expense, one in which they constantly try to find the lowest cost solution. In fact, as this article attempts to convey, the container offers a great opportunity to act as a powerful marketing tool to help sell more...
Matt Blackman submits: June 30 marked the end of Q2-08 so we thought it a good time to perform our mid-year U.S. market roundup. In the first chart, we see how the three major indexes have performed together with the MSCI Emerging Market ETF EEM and more than 8,300 U.S....
For years, Congress has wrestled with rising Medicare costs and improper payments for outpatient therapy services--physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech-language pathology. The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 required GAO to report on whether available information justifies waiving the caps for particular conditions or diseases. As...
The importance of corporate governance has attracted a great deal of attention over the last decade. Although it has received less focus, pension plan governance has an important role to play and will continue to be under closer scrutiny. The paper depicts about a particular aspect of pension plan governance...
The addition of the Mid-cap asset class to domestic equity portfolios expands the resulting efficient investment frontier by approximately 10 basis points at some risk levels. Mid-caps appear to be a practical alternative to the Small-cap asset class in investor portfolios covering the low to moderately aggressive risk range. Over...
Dan Weiss submits: It was a tale of three seasons for the financial markets during the second quarter. Equity markets started off the second quarter with a bang, led higher by not only the energy and materials stocks but also consumer-related and even financial stocks as investors had...
David Merkel submits: At present I own a position in the Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund JOF. One of the things that I talk less about in my investing, is my willingness to allow some professionals closer to the situation manage a small amount of the assets, if they have...
Most existing dynamic term structure models assume that interest rate derivatives are redundant securities and can be perfectly hedged using solely bonds. The paper finds that the quadratic term structure models have serious difficulties in hedging caps and cap straddles, even though they capture bond yields well. Furthermore, at-the-money straddle...
Alan Brochstein, CFA submits: Though it has more exposure to Financials and less to Energy relative to the S&P 500, the S&P 400 Mid-Cap index is significantly outperforming the Large-Cap index thus far QTD and YTD. Curiously, it is also outperforming the S&P 600 Small-Cap index as well. ...
Richard Dwyer submits: Few sectors have been as decimated as airline stocks. In an era where Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has a market cap of roughly $178 billion, many are surprised to learn that many airline stocks have market caps of under $5 billion. Indeed, many well known names...
The distribution industry is full of plans with commission caps, decreasing commissions on increasing sales, and the eyes of management making sure no one below them makes more than they do. There are also true stories of owners who cut territories or reassigned accounts because someone made too much money....
Innovation is the lifeblood of growth and success. Yet trying to come up with a new idea, one that stands the test of time, is a daunting task - to say the least. The landscape is littered with ideas that look good on paper but just did not succeed. While...
Libby Mihalka submits:"You make most of your money during a bear market; you just don’t realize it at the time." - Shelby Cullom DavisThe first half of the year had all the thrills and chills of a bad horror flick. There were nauseating triple digit declines in the U.S. market,...
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"The article is basically a research work conducted for the benchmarking process.this is basically a practical aspect consisting of various tables and reports. some of these include these include Percent of Companies that reported the following activity areas as included in the purchasing operating expense, ...
Thomas Engelbert submits: It's not easy watching your portfolio erode on a daily basis. The Dow is down 16% for the year, the Nasdaq is down 15%, and the Russell 2000 Small-Cap Index is down 12%. Consumer confidence is near the lowest level since 1980. It's at this stage that...
