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5 Election-Proof Stock Ideas Ahead Of Biden-Trump Decision
Friday, October 30, 2020 - 4:16pm | 506The U.S. presidential election will likely be a major stock market catalyst. Traders are already trying to identify the best “Biden stocks” or “Trump stocks” that could rally depending on the election outcome. At the same time, some investors may prefer to avoid the election...
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US Companies In 'Much Better Shape' Than Wall Street Thinks: Here's Why
Tuesday, July 7, 2020 - 12:00pm | 399The second-quarter earnings season is right around the corner, and investors are bracing for some extremely bad numbers. David Trainer, CEO of New Constructs, said Tuesday that U.S. companies are in much better shape as a whole than Wall Street seems to realize. Trainer said much of the market...
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'An Outlier Event': Experts React To Oil Prices Dropping Below $0
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 - 1:15pm | 510June contract WTI crude oil prices plunged another 24% on Tuesday to $15.32 after May contracts dropped below $0 for the first time in history on Monday. U.S. crude oil storage capacity is maxed out as COVID-19 stay-at-home orders and travel restrictions have pushed oil demand to near zero. The...
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Some Key Information Is 'Hidden' In Many Earnings Reports — And It Can Cost You
Wednesday, November 13, 2019 - 8:40am | 724The financials disclosed in quarterly earnings reports are treated like the gospel by investors. But according to a new paper by researchers at the Harvard Business School and MIT’s Sloan School of Management, the headline numbers may not always be as accurate as they should be. David Trainer...
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New Constructs' Most Attractive Stocks for June
Monday, June 4, 2012 - 9:55am | 365New Constructs is out with its Most Attractive Stocks for June report, with 14 new stocks for this month. For those who don't know, New Constructs specializes in earnings quality analysis and ranks stocks based on these quality of earnings and traditional valuations. They only highlight stocks with...
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ETF Pair Trade From New Constructs (AAPL, XLK, FDN, PXN, AMZN)
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 - 4:13pm | 553New Constructs, a financial research firm, is out with an ETF Pair Trade to Navigate Shifty Tech Stocks. The main strategy employed here is a long/short, in which an investor would long a technology ETF with high-quality stocks and short one with low quality stocks, and also take advantage of...
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Are ETFs Riskier Than They Appear? (XLK, IWY, XLP, FXG)
Monday, January 31, 2011 - 12:43pm | 352If you think that exchange-traded funds are a good bet for big-picture, macroeconomic trends, you could be in for a rude awakening. David Trainer, the president of New Constructs (a Nashville-based independent researcher), told Barron's that investors don't spend enough time investigating the...