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Once Again, This Chipmaker's Credit Risk Is Being Overblown In this changing market, the investors who stay ahead of the herd will profit... Over the past few months here at Altimetry Daily Authority, we've regularly discussed the "At-Home Revolution." It's the massive societal shift that's unfolding in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic as consumers […]

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The debate is growing as to whether a successful vaccine might have unintended economic consequences... For investors, economists, and average folks who the coronavirus has affected, many are pinning their hope on the introduction of one or several vaccines as the light at the end of a dark tunnel. From a health perspective, it will […]

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Investors take years off their lives trying to interpret central bankers' statements... Folks will come up with any method to figure out what policy makers are really thinking. Just consider when Alan Greenspan was chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve... Investors read so much into his "irrational exuberance" statement in December 1996 that they considered […]

Who is accounting for the accountants? In the July 21 Altimetry Daily Authority, we discussed a hidden danger for any portfolio: fraudulent companies. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") has limited capacity to investigate every publicly traded company, and one stock with a fraudulent business behind it can "torpedo" portfolio returns. Fraud usually originates […]

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The grand work-from-home experiment has led to some preliminary results... As we've mentioned before here at Altimetry Daily Authority, the coronavirus pandemic has forced corporate America into an experiment around the structure of the working environment. Back in March, in order to keep business functioning, employers were forced to allow folks to work from home. […]

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It's yet another way the coronavirus pandemic will change travel forever... Like any longstanding institution, the airport was conceived of and designed years ago... with inertia reducing the potential of structural changes to the way we board our planes. This is especially true since the last great wave of change with the security measures implemented […]

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Millionaires are no longer feeling like millionaires... Back in the 1970s and '80s, the term was synonymous with success. A millionaire was a part of the stratified elite... an untouchable social class. This image was reinforced by landmark pieces of media such as the film Wall Street and the book The Bonfire of the Vanities […]

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One segment of health care is finding a way to buck the industry trend of collapsing demand... In the June 3 Altimetry Daily Authority, we explained how Integra LifeSciences (IART) is a vital market player in the elective surgeries sector. The pandemic has hit this area hard... Hospitals have been canceling these surgeries to keep […]

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To the absolute shock of no sports fans... referees aren't unbiased! But they aren't in the way you'd assume, where they always seem to be against your team and instead support the opponents... Now that soccer, baseball, hockey, and basketball games have been held without fans over the past few months, data scientists have been […]

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The coronavirus pandemic is forcing even the most analog tasks to go digital... For the large plane makers like Airbus and Boeing (BA), delivery is everything. Building an aircraft takes significant time and investment for these firms, so they require some upfront payment from customers. However, more than half of revenue and a large portion […]

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