Earnings Season in Full Swing
Shares of our two recent recommendations, Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC (OTC: RYCEY) and GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK), are both higher than our entry levels. In the case of Rolls-Royce, earnings came out on...
View ArticleSell “Bricks”…Buy “Clicks”
It’s official: “Clicks” are beating up on “bricks”… which is very bad news for the real estate investment trusts (REITs) that hold shopping malls and other retail properties. “Clicks,” or online retail...
View ArticleNatural Gas Is on the Front Burner
Eric Fry, warming up to natural gas, reports… Back on July 14, 2016, when natural gas was still trading close to its lowest levels of the last two decades, my intrepid colleague Sean Brodrick declared,...
View ArticleBringing Back American Jobs
I’m all for bringing jobs back. I’m all for seeing Americans’ stagnant wages rise from the depressed levels they’re at today. But I want the real picture… not smoke blown up my you-know-where. First,...
View ArticleCan You Handle the Truth About India and China?
I’ve read a number of reports from experts extolling the virtues of investing in India and China. One even had India as the best investing idea for 2017. I just returned from both countries after...
View ArticleBest of 2016: Side-Stepping Risk to Find Reward
Eric Fry, presenting the final column from our “Best of 2016” series, reports… The Non-Dollar Report is not only about seeking reward; it is also about avoiding risk. To that end, we published a column...
View ArticleBest of 2016: Sniffing Out Opportunity in Fertilizer
Eric Fry, sniffing out opportunity in fertilizer, reports… Today’s issue is the second installment of our “Best of 2016” series. Back in August, when gold was flying higher than almost any other asset...
View ArticleBest of 2016: Crisis Investing in Brazil
Eric Fry, looking backward in order to look forward, reports… Today’s holiday issue of The Non-Dollar Report kicks off the 2016 edition of our annual “Best of the Year” series. Over the next few days,...
View ArticleOrganics: The New Plastic
“One word: plastics.” That’s the infamous quote from the equally infamous 1967 movie The Graduate. Had you listened, even a modest investment in companies that contributed ingredients to the...
View ArticleBeware the Recent Oil Rally
The Liars’ Club is the childhood memoir of American author Mary Karr. It is also a group of oil producers known as OPEC. A few days ago, OPEC and several non-OPEC producers agreed to reduce their...
View ArticleSouth Korea: Shifting from Park to Neutral
Seoul, the capital of South Korea, is a beautiful city in the fall. Leaves are turning every imaginable color while sweepers are working nonstop to keep the sidewalks passable. Some do it the...
View ArticleThanksgiving Dinner Is a “Buy”
Your Thanksgiving dinner is on sale. Forgive us for this crass, materialistic observation, but almost every commodity that makes Thanksgiving dinner possible is a lot less expensive today than it was...
View ArticleThe Powerful Investment Trend Unleashed by the Trump Victory
Eric Fry, anticipating the upside of down, reports… Donald Trump’s surprising victory means many different things to many different people… and to many different financial markets. In the immediate...
View ArticleBreaking Up is Hard to Do…Just Look at Brexit
Neil Sedaka nailed it on the head. Breaking up is hard to do. Just look at Brexit, the British referendum that decided Britain’s exit from the European Union last June. That vote was an earthquake that...
View ArticleFive Guidelines to Profit From Big Price Swings
Despite what most people believe, big market price swings are great news for investors. Stock market volatility is the gift that keeps on giving. But if you’re going to take advantage of it, there are...
View ArticleNatural Gas Could Be Explosive: Part 2
The natural gas sector may be on the cusp of a major rally. Beat the rush and buy into the sector now. The natural gas sector has been victimized by oversupply for several years, causing the price of...
View ArticleBuy This Recovering Agricultural Titan
Certain facts are undeniable. For one, there are more people alive now than there have ever been. With the current global population growth rate at roughly 1.2%, there will be 9.7 billion people on the...
View ArticleIt’s Time for Non-Dollars!
“The commodity sector is five years into one of the worst bust phases ever… and the signs are everywhere. Not only are commodities themselves depressed, but so are numerous investment assets and...
View ArticleNatural Gas Could Be Explosive
When good news lands in a stock market sector that is accustomed to nothing but bad news, wonderful things can happen. Such was the case on September 7, when the oil exploration company Apache Corp....
View ArticleREITs: High Risk, Low Reward
We’ve often heard that what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. So it’s a bit surprising to see that what’s bad for the goose doesn’t seem to trouble the gander at all. For most of the last...
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