Editor's note: Earlier this week in Empire Financial Daily, we shared insights from our friend and colleague Marc Chaikin, the founder of our sister company Chaikin Analytics. Today, we're featuring an essay from his colleague Marc Gerstein... Marc Gerstein is the director of research at Chaikin Analytics, having joined the company in 2018. He has long specialized in rules- and factor-based equity-investing strategies and has also authored two books on stock screening: Screening the Market and The Value Connection. In today's essay, Marc Gerstein shares the details on a "fortress" to protect investors during the market volatility... It's hard to find any bright spots as an investor right now... The stock market is in shambles. Central banks around the world are hiking interest rates. And traditional "safe havens" such as gold and bonds aren't helping at all. In these turbulent times, we need some sort of "fortress" to protect us. The good news is... we've found one. Back in mid-May i
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We know companies game the system, especially when it comes to earnings... But intentionally understating them? That appears to be the case, or at least it was in the first half of the year, according to a recent report from my friends at New Constructs – run by David Trainer. As summarized in this recent […]
Friday, September 30, 2022
Following up on topics I discussed in yesterday's e-mail... 1) Elon Musk's text messages regarding Twitter (TWTR) were released yesterday, which were covered by Twitter user The Chancery Daily – you can read the thread here. Here's a Wall Street Journal article about them: Twitter Co-Founder Dorsey Tried to Smooth the Way for Musk, Agrawal, […]
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