An article from the Huffington Post today claims that Ford is "secretly" in talks to sell Volvo. First, let me say that this is another example of the media trying to create the perception of valuable content.
This article continues.
To continue viewing this entry please sign in to your Client or Member account.
Restrictions Against Reproduction: No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the Publisher.
These articles and commentaries cannot be reposted or used in any publications for which there is any revenue generated directly or indirectly. These articles cannot be used to enhance the viewer appeal of any website, including any ad revenue on the website, other than those sites for which specific written permission has been granted. Any such violations are unlawful and violators will be prosecuted in accordance with these laws.
Article 19 of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
This publication (written, audio and video) represents the commentary and/or criticisms from Mike Stathis or other individuals affiliated with Mike Stathis or AVA Investment Analytics (referred to hereafter as the “author”). Therefore, the commentary and/or criticisms only serve as an opinion and therefore should not be taken to be factual representations, regardless of what might be stated in these commentaries/criticisms. There is always a possibility that the author has made one or more unintentional errors, misspoke, misinterpreted information, and/or excluded information which might have altered the commentary and/or criticisms. Hence, you are advised to conduct your own independent investigations so that you can form your own conclusions. We encourage the public to contact us if we have made any errors in statements or assumptions. We also encourage the public to contact us if we have left out relevant information which might alter our conclusions. We cannot promise a response, but we will consider all valid information.
Opening Statement from the January 2016 Intelligent Investor Originally published on January 6, 2016 As expected, Q3 earnings declined y-o-y, but the downturn was not as bad as previously es...
We have just released a very important audio originally provided to subscribers of the Intelligent Investor and Market Forecaster last summer, entitled, August 23, 2015 Economic and Market Overview an...
For those of you who might be wondering if Mike finally missed a market downturn, after having accurately nailed every single selloff and rally since March 2009. The answer is NO. Mike has been wa...
Please click the PDF icon below to download this document.
Opening Statement from the November 2015 Intelligent Investor Originally published on November 5, 2015 (pre-market) The US stock market has recovered from its largest selloff in four years,...
Opening Statement from the October 2015 Intelligent Investor Originally published on October 7, 2015 Review of the Past 12 Months First, let’s summarize our assessment and guidance from...
Opening Statement from the December 2014 Intelligent Investor (Part 3) First published on December 9, 2014 for subscribers to the Intelligent Investor Over the past couple of months we have bee...
For the 15th consecutive quarter, dividends per share (DPS) for the S&P 500 has grown at double-digit rates.
Can anyone offer any evidence that there is someone who is any better than Mike? If so, you would have already landed our $100,000 prize. The fact is that no can because...
Mike Stathis is simply the best. If you aren't aware of that, then you just don't know his track record. Perhaps you're spending too much time listening to charlatans.
Originally published on July 13, 2014. Once again, Mike Stathis nailed the most recent market sell off in April, having warned readers that the Dow Jones would almost definitely sell......
Opening Statement from May 2014 Intelligent Investor (Part 3) First published on May 7, 2014 for subscribers to the Intelligent Investor Moving past this period, we feel there is a good chanc...
Originally Published on April 17, 2014 from the Opening Statement of the April 2014 issue of Dividend Gems The harsh winter season has put a dent in the earnings of some retailers. But the bi...
Opening Statement from April 2014 Intelligent Investor (Part 3) First published on April 4, 2014 for subscribers to the Intelligent Investor In the Market Forecasting section (Part 2...
Originally Published on March 16, 2014 from the Opening Statement of the March 2014 issue of Dividend Gems Last month we discussed that the US stock market continued to rise almost irrespecti...
Originally Published on March 5, 2014 in Part 3 of the March 2014 Intelligent Investor Although we successfully navigated the most recent correction in the US stock market, we are faced with...
The release of this video is part of a new series we have recently launched for the purpose of helping the public become more familiar with the track record and insights of Mike Stathis. Those who a...
We will be making more of these videos in the future so the newer guests of the website can see that no one can come close to the track record of Mike Stathis. We hope to make 20 or more videos in 201...
In August 2009, Mike Stathis posted a reward for the first person who could prove that there was a financial professional that could match his track record before, during and after the economic collap...
Today, WellPoint (WLP) announced a $4.46 billion buyout offer for Amerigroup (AGP), causing shares to soar by 38%. Since being added to our recommended list just over two years ago, shares of AGP have...
We have received several inquiries recently from investors wondering whether it’s “too late” to purchase the video series we have been highlighting because they have seen how we nailed so many of thes...
Here, we provide readers with a glimpse of our market forecasts between February and April 2012 demonstrating once again that we are the best market forecasters in the world. As many of you recall,...
Last week, we showed how the Dividend Gems Recommended Securities List was holding up through the current market correction, from the time the May issue was released, through June 2. The performance o...
On April 5 before the U.S. market opened, we released the monthly issue of the Intelligent Investor; about 70 pages discussing everything from domestic and global economics, to currency, gold, silver,...
Over the past several months we have been publishing the spectacualr outperformance of the securities in the Dividend Gems Recommended List. Here, we show the performance of each of th......
While the 10-year U.S. Treasury Note continues to languish in a sea of global uncertainty, all while short-term interest rates remain at dangerously record-low levels, more than 200 U.S. listed securi......
On Friday, Amerigroup (AGP) reported disappointing earnings partly due to an account error. However, after adjusting for this issue, earnings still came in considerably lower than consensus. The...
As the market has sold off over the past month, the Dividend Gems Recommended List has once again outperformed. Below are charts representing EVERY security in the Dividend Gems Recommended List so yo...
We wanted to take this opportunity to remind you about our newest investment newsletter, Dividend Gems.
In the November 2010 issue of the Intelligent Investor newsletter, our Chief Investment and Trading Strategist, Mike Stathis added Atheros Communications (ATHR) to his recommended list. At......
As many of you know, we just launched the first issue of our newest investment newsletter in February called Dividend Gems. Given the recent correction in the market, we wanted to show the perf......
Mike has added 2 new stocks to his recommendations contained in the Intelligent Investor, one soft line retailer and the other from high-tech. Subscribers who did not receive this brief report, pleas......
Just a note to those who haven't signed up yet for the newsletter. In just three days since the newsletter was released, one of Mike's most highly recommended stocks soared by more than 25%. Hav......
Buy you ask? Yes. Not stocks, unless you’re talking about oil. And unless you’re the best of the best of traders you’ll probably want to buy the oil trusts, but only if you b...
Early last month, the Commerce Department released the latest GDP data. For Q2 of 2010 the GDP growth came in at 2.4%, missing the consensus estimate of 2.5%. The Commerce Department also released it...
Effective immediately, and for a limited time only, we are offering readers a transcript of a recent interview given by Mike Stathis, the Chief Investment and Trading Strategist of...
I hate repeating myself over and over. Who doesn't right? Well, it's especially cumbersome to repeat oneself when the only form of communication you have is writing (albeit with extr...
I've added this question to the website poll to the left, so I want to encourage you to take a stab. Before you place your vote, I will go ahead and tell you the answer is NOT Greece. So y...
As subscribers to the AVAIA newsletter know, the special report released on May 9 was quite accurate. In short, anyone who had access to the special report could have avoided up to an ...
A couple of weeks ago, I released a report discussing how I was able to get in on Merck for big gains, while virtually everyone else left the company for dead after the Vioxx scandal played out. /arti...
In the past, I have addressed the errors made by Peter Schiff's analysis of the economy and healthcare. For those of you who are still behind the curve and actually think Schiff...
Subscribers to the AVA Investment Analytics newsletter will be receiving a special report that discusses forward direction of the market, as well as analysis of selected securities. Thi...
In the Wall Street Investment Bible, I discussed other securities I that had a good chance of bankruptcy down the road (e.g. Blockbuster and Sirius Satellite). Regardless what ultimately happens...
Rather than a sigh of relief, Greece's bailout signals more to come from Eastern Europe. And rather than a more peaceful Greece, it the EU-IMF bailout is likely to result in major riots and...
Okay folks. I've been working on the May newsletter over the past few days and one of the securities submitted for analysis was Monsanto. I've actually meant to do some write-ups on the controversial...
I don't want to waste anymore time on this than I have to. Let me just say that the SEC's latest bogus attempt to prevent another securitized asset blow up is a complete joke. The SEC ...
Before I begin, I would like to say that most of you will need to actually study this article. You will need to read it and reread it. You will need to look at your own charts of the Dow.....
Here's an article discussing the fact that JP Morgan and Citigroup escalated the collapse of Lehman Brothers by increasing the collateral and altering terms and conditions for lending.
The past six trading days has not been kind to the market, despite some rather good earnings reports from AMD, GOOG, and many other companies one might expect to not be faring so well. However, one of...
This is just a reminder to those who don't know about me.
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece discussing allegations of insider trading and illegal naked short selling of Washington Mutual, involving the banking cartel and potentially their hedge fund cli...
For years, investors boasted what a great company General Electric was. Even CEOs marveled at the company's ability to consistently deliver strong earnings growth despite its massive size....
This September 25th 2009 marked the one-year anniversary of Washington Mutual’s seizure, by the Office of Thrift Supervision (supposedly) as a result of insolvency (supposedly). Last year, on O...
Hopefully, you have read my recently released SEC complaint alleging insider trading and illegal naked short sales involving the banking cartel, as well as criminal involvement of former SEC ...
My advice is to find some people who you trust; those with proven track records, those who are not tied to the television shows. Figure it out. You are only going to be misled by the mainstream med...
It’s extraordinarily rare to find a book that provides specific securities analysis, enabling investors to profit based upon the recommendations. One of the reasons this is such a rare event is...
Just off the press, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has warned about the critical juncture of the economy and has warned about spreading the propaganda of a recovery. http://finance.yahoo.......
I don't know if anyone read the two posts I made on Monday about healthcare and HMOs, but they were lost when the site was hacked since I did not have a backup that recent. Anyway, in cas...
That's right, I said free. I'll even pay for shipping. All you have to do is help yourself. Okay, so what does that mean?
I've been working feverishly trying to complete my healthcare book. It's been a very difficult challenge juggling this project off-and-on for three years.
To those of you who say it's impossible to time or forecast the market; to those of you who keep wasting your time reading and watching the clowns positioned as so-called "experts" by the me...
Despite a big boost in shares in after hours trading, Wednesday's (disappointing) earnings for the online auctioneer represent a continuing trend that will not be broken anytime soon. Yes, t...
Today after the bell, Intel's only major competitor AMD reported disappointing earnings, missing by a large mark. This confirms what I discussed in the recent report released to newsletter subscribers...
I ran across this ridiculous headline on Yahoo! Finance (which is nothing more than the CNBC of the Internet) and I wanted to make a few comments.
An article from the Huffington Post today claims that Ford is "secretly" in talks to sell Volvo. First, let me say that this is another example of the media trying to create the perceptio...
The following report was released on June 10th as a follow-up to subscribers to the June newsletter.
ATTENTION TRADERS: Options go on sale next week! Starting June 15, Bernie Schaeffer is releasing 10 hot trades targeting gains of +100% or more. And each trade will close by June 19. 5 Days 10 HO......
I ran across an interesting announcement that bodes well for Fidelity and KKR. But I’m willing to bet it will be a bad deal for unsuspecting Fidelity investors. Kolberg Krav...
Early last year, I made a prediction that seemed obvious, given what I knew about the banking system and the fate of the stock market. I predicted there would be thousands of hedge funds shutting down...
Just a note about my postings. Some of you may be wondering why I have been making so many posts about the media, while ignoring the market and economy. The reason is two-fold. First of all, u...
The stock market (the DJIA) is now very close to fair value from a long-term perspective (if that even means anything to an individual investor, which it may not). Those who read America’s Finan...
Despite the strong closing bounce off the new intraday low of around 7400 reached on Friday, it’s likely the Dow has further downside. These lows may not occur for another 12-18 months.