Spotlight: Why iRobot’s Robots Are Cleaning Up
A common asset possessed by every highly innovative company in the Knowledge Leaders Indexes is a rich store of intangible capital. Such reservoirs of knowledge…
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Given rising short rates in the US, the Libor spread has widened considerably over the last few years
With the European Central Bank dragging its feet to begin the monetary tightening cycle, the difference between US and German rates has opened up to…
Spotlight: The Secret Of Chevron’s Permian Dominance
A recent report by The Wall Street Journal identified a new generation of supercomputers as the fuel behind Big Oil’s “digital arms race to find…
Volatility Shocks & Dollar Bears
Price excesses have built up over a long bull market. Stocks are expensive, and the volatility shock wave is traveling the globe. This quarter, we…
The Most Important Detail From The Flash PMI Report Is About Inflation
Among yesterday’s data releases was the widely followed ‘flash’ PMI report produced by Markit, which showed that the Manufacturing PMI increased to the highest level…
Oil Breaking Out, So Are Inflation Expectations
After spending the last four months consolidating gains, crude oil is breaking higher again, and it’s taking inflation expectations with it (charts 1 & 2)….
Uncharted Territory For Stock Valuations As P/S Eclipes 2000
Another month and another new high in equity valuations, at least relative to sales. Indeed, the median company in our developed world index (which covers…
Baruch Lev On The Unbearable Lightness Of Earnings
Baruch Lev is the Philip Bardes Professor of Accounting and Finance at the Stern School of Business, NYU. This article first appeared at the Lev End Of…
New Lows YTD In Chinese Stocks But Highs In Latin America Equities/Bonds
Last night the China Shanghai CSI 300 index fell a bit more than 1.6%, taking out February lows and setting a new YTD low for…
US-German Bond Spreads And Equity Leadership
Recent weak data emanating from the Eurozone has been weighing on German Bund yields. The significant drop in the Eurozone Citigroup Economic Surprise Index (CESI)…
Who Needs Judgment When You’ve Got Data? You Do.
Author Jerry Z. Muller discusses his new book: The Tyranny of Metrics. The amount of data that organizations now have has brought massive opportunities to…
Spotlight: Rio Tinto And The World’s First “Intelligent” Mine
Later this year, Rio Tinto will seek board approval to spend $2.2B to build the world’s first “intelligent” mine, a network of robots and autonomous…
Mind The Gap, And Other Non-Confirmations Of A Low
As political risk continues to escalate, we are, as always, keenly focused on risk management and the mitigation of potential losses. To those ends, we…
Energy Stocks Are Starting To Flow
Energy stocks are looking lively today, with energy the best performing sector in the US and second best performing sector in Europe. The likely reason…
Will Shionogi’s R&D Machine Outrun The Flu?
In the midst of the worst flu season in a decade, Japanese pharmaceutical company Shionogi & Co., Ltd. is making headlines for a new drug…