Stock Trading Liquidity is Key for Small Cap Company Survival

by Ronald Woessner | May 9, 2018 | alerts, archive, Non-Public Markets

For real estate, “location, location, location” is the KEY metric. For nano-cap and microcap companies, stock trading volume (liquidity) is the KEY metric. An earlier article noted that the lack of liquidity is one of four major stock market-related challenges...

Shark Tank’s O’Leary reports from the Milken conference

by Michael Markowski | May 3, 2018 | alerts, archive, Secular Bulls/Bears

Shark Tank shark Kevin O’Leary, an attendee at the Milken Institute’s conference in California this week provided a report to CNBC. The conference which is held annually is attended by politicians, the world’s captains of industry and most prestigious institutional...

Unique Challenges Facing Public Nano-Cap and Microcap Public Companies

by Ronald Woessner | May 2, 2018 | alerts, archive, Non-Public Markets

An earlier article illuminated the trend that the number of public companies in the US is decreasing and the amount of capital raised in recent years through the public markets is 26% less than that raised through the private markets. Going public has traditionally...

Will there be a “Mayday” on May Day?

by Michael Markowski | May 1, 2018 | alerts, archive, Secular Bulls/Bears, Tariffs

The probability is 50/50 that the announcers on CNBC and Bloomberg will be shouting “mayday!” on May 1, 2018.  The first day of May is also known as May Day. The potential for a “mayday” alert on May Day 2018, is because the stock market has the potential to decline...

Higher 10-year yields are leading the markets direction

by Paul Lengemann, BullsnBears Economist | Apr 28, 2018 | alerts, archive, Crashes, Markets/Economy

Interest rates are going up, with treasuries leading the way. This week the 10-year Treasury bond has risen to over 3%, a milestone in the long road to recovery from the bottom of the crash. The US economy is strong enough to support such an advance, but there are...

The Decline of the US Public Company?

by Michael Markowski | Apr 27, 2018 | alerts, archive, Non-Public Markets

1st in a series discussing the decline of US public companies According to a 2017 Report by the Department of the Treasury, the number of domestic public companies in the US has declined by nearly 50% over the last two decades. This trend is 100% opposite the trend in...