Could you let me know please where I can find charts related to the global corporate autonomies funds and I think there is an income one also? Could you provide a link please to find this funds? Also I am interested to find info on P/E ratios and dividend yields for autonomies in Europe and beyond. Is it possible to find this info on the site? Thanks in advance
This article by Will Shanklin for Gizmag may be of interest to subscribers. Here is a section:
Perhaps game consoles (appropriately) will be the most likely role models for VR platforms. As a child in the 80s, my first experiences with the Atari and NES kindled a wide-eyed sense of wonder that's harder to replicate as an adult. Though those same games only give me slight glimmers of that feeling today, VR rekindles that childlike sense more than any form of entertainment since (certainly more than today's cinematic AAA video games or fads like 3D movies ever did).
Gaming spent many years as a "kids' product," but as that first generation of child gamers grew up – and realized there was no reason for them to leave their hobby behind – it blew up as a lucrative industry that now knows no generational boundaries (well, almost no boundaries – gaming demographics do still lean more towards younger adults than older ones).
Perhaps, like gaming, VR will start with the most wide-eyed of users, and only gradually erode the stigmas and unfamiliarity that keeps the rest of the world from joining the party.
So what do we think? Well, in our eyes, any technology that can rekindle, and perhaps surpass, the pure joy and awe of playing Super Mario Bros. or Mike Tyson's Punch-Out for the first time – only 30 years later – has a great shot at widespread success. Whether it's in a year or a decade, it may simply be a matter of a) getting VR to a consumer-ready, high-quality stage and then b) getting enough people to try it. That first step began years ago, but the second step starts tomorrow.
I read this article about luxury goods in today's FT and then ran through your luxury goods section in your Favourites in the Chart Library. I cannot see a common pattern in the charts. Since this a major element of what you teach in the Chart Seminar, I would like your thoughts on this particular case.
This article from Daimler highlights its entry into the domestic and commercial energy storage sectors. Here is a section:
Daimler is entering into business in the field of stationary energy storage plants with its one hundred percent subsidiary Deutsche ACCUmotive. The first industrial-scale lithium-ion unit is already on the grid and is being operated by the partner companies The Mobility House AG and GETEC Energie AG. For business with private customers in the area of energy storage in Germany, Daimler AG is planning to collaborate with EnBW AG. Daimler is also aiming to enter into cooperation with other sales and distribution partners both in Germany and at international level. "Mercedes-Benz energy storages provide the best confirmation that lithium-ion batteries Made in Germany have a viable future," says Harald Kröger, Head of Development Electrics/Electronics & E-Drive Mercedes-Benz Cars. "With our comprehensive battery expertise at Deutsche ACCUmotive we are accelerating the transition to sustainable energy generation both on the road and in the field of power supply for companies and private households. The technology that has proven its worth over millions of kilometres covered in the most adverse conditions, such as extreme heat and cold, also offers the best credentials for stationary use. We have been gathering initial experience in this field since 2012."
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For instance, while listening to music in Spotify you can search for more info on an artist, or if you're talking about a restaurant in WhatsApp, Google can pull up data on the place and even help you make reservations. And this is not a feature of the app itself, rather a helper that lives inside of the entire operating system.
This is a major move for two reasons. The first is that it really brings Google back to a place of dominance as the glue that holds your digital life together. The web has thrived and grown in no small part because of Google's ability to track, organize, and understand all of its disparate pieces. Now it's able to do the same thing with every app running on your phone. It allows Google to get back into the search game by speaking the common language of apps. It gives the company a second life with access to user behavior and needs.
But secondly, it starts to show how Google can be an interconnecting layer between the apps themselves — a kind of neutral staging ground between one action and another. This is a sea-change for how we use our mobile devices and how mobile apps interact with one another. Currently, we use OS-defined tools which let apps interact with each other (with rules defined by the OS-makers, not developers). But imagine if developers didn't have to think about how their work connects to the rest of your world? Imagine if Now on Tap is aware enough of the core functions of those apps that it can predict what you'd most likely want to do with them, and then execute on those needs?
Thanks to a subscriber for this note from Canaccord Genuity on CalAmp which may be of interest to subscribers. Here is a section:
We hosted upbeat investor meetings with CalAmp CEO Michael Burdiek on April 29th, in the mid-Atlantic region. Following our meetings, we maintain our belief CalAmp is well positioned for solid long-term growth in the Industrial IoT market through both organic initiatives that include entering new markets and through potential acquisitions. In fact, we believe CalAmp’s recent $150M low-interest rate convertible offering provides the company with increased financial flexibility for its M&A strategy focused on accretive acquisitions in targeted IoT verticals. We remain impressed with management’s longer-term strategy to build upon its strong hardware portfolio and offer an increasing mix of higher-margin recurring revenue solutions. Finally, as evidenced by the strong Q4/F2015 results, we believe CalAmp’s Wireless DataCom business is well positioned to drive strong F2016 and F2017 sales and earnings growth driven by ramping sales to Caterpillar, growing insurance telematics sales, ramping international sales, a growing product portfolio, an increasing list of new customer opportunities, and anticipated steady growth of higher-margin recurring revenue sales. We maintain our BUY rating and $26 PT.
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Improving economic data from the euro area has fueled speculation policy makers may curtail asset purchases before a September 2016 end date, lifting the euro from a 12-year low.
ECB President Mario Draghi attempted to quell such talk last week, saying the program would be implemented “in full.”
The euro fell versus 15 of 16 major peers as Coeure’s comments about injecting money more quickly into the euro-zone economy emerged early Tuesday in the text of a speech delivered in London the day before. ECB Governing Council member Christian Noyer said separately in Paris on Tuesday that the central bank is ready to extend QE if needed.
“The euro has looked pretty shaky after those comments, especially that they’re front-loading the effort of QE,” said Fabian Eliasson, head of U.S. corporate foreign-exchange sales at Mizuho Financial Group Inc. in New York. “The overall direction is fairly skewed toward the downside.”
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Despite BHP Billiton’s spin off and sale of about $15 billion of unwanted assets over the last three years, the biggest miner remains saddled with a portfolio of even harder-to-shift rejects.
A total of nine assets — from a US thermal coal mine to UK oil and gas platforms — haven’t made the cut for a new slimmed-down parent or the demerger company South32.
The unloved operations, valued at more than $2.8 billion according to RBC Capital Markets, are hampering Chief Executive Officer Andrew Mackenzie’s quest to halve the size of BHP’s core portfolio to focus on big ticket earners including crude oil, iron ore and copper.
“They did the big clean up with South32 and these are what are left,” said Michelle Lopez, a Sydney-based investment manager at Aberdeen Asset Management Ltd., which holds BHP shares. “I’m sure they’ve been on the sale slate for a long time. It’s a disappointment.”
Global mining companies are trimming portfolios to focus more closely on their most profitable operations as commodity prices have tumbled and amid a drive to reduce costs.
BHP, Rio Tinto Group and Glencore Plc have agreed the sales of $14.3 billion of assets since 2012, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
An attempt to sell one of BHP’s reject assets, the Nickel West unit of mines and facilities in Australia, ended in November after it failed to attract a suitable bid. BHP has taken $1.8 billion in writedowns on the operation since 2012.
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Urmson's statements came in the form of a post on Backchannel, which followed an Associated Press report revealing the accident count in the wake of a new California law requiring Google and others to report accidents involving its self-driving cars to the state. Google reported three accidents between May 2014 and May 2015, while Delphi, which has its own version of a self-driving car, an Audi SQ5, reported its vehicle was struck while waiting to turn at an intersection and not under autonomous control.
In his post, Urmson details that the Google Cars were rear-ended seven times by other cars, side swiped twice, and hit once by a car running a stop sign, with the majority of the accidents occurring on city streets rather than highways. The 1.7 million miles (2.7 million km) the cars are reported to have traveled combines the distance traveled autonomously and under manual control.
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Minutes after the Nasdaq Composite closed at a record, three of the biggest bellwethers in technology reminded the market precisely why investors are so bullish on companies that do business through the Web.
Amazon.com Inc. for the first time broke out sales from its division that sells computing power and software via the Internet, reporting a 49 percent jump last quarter. Microsoft Corp. posted profit that topped analysts’ estimates, also underscoring healthy demand for software delivered through the cloud. Google Inc. benefited from rising volume of online ads.
The numbers are a testament not only to the endurance of the Internet as a conduit of commerce and information, but also to the ways it has revolutionized how the world’s biggest corporations operate. All three companies have been at the heart of these changes since the Web’s inception as a business tool, and are now vying for a bigger slice of the still-fledgling market for cloud computing.
Google is seeking to extend its lead in online search and advertising, Amazon is spending billions of dollars to expand in e-commerce and data centers, and Microsoft is building on its dominance of the business-software market.
“We are innings one or two of the cloud,” said Kim Forrest, an analyst at Fort Pitt Capital Group Inc., which oversees about $1.8 billion in Pittsburgh.
