CLIENT TALKING POINTS
Watch the Dollar
There are a lot of folks out there who simply hate this market, but the reality is that if you are raging against this market, you’re missing one of the most impressive four-month changes in Asian and US growth prospects that we’ve seen in nearly a decade. A strong currency, if sustained, is a pro-growth signal. So the key here is to watch whether or not the dollar remains strong.
TOP LONG IDEAS
ASCA
We believe ASCA will receive a higher bid from another gaming competitor. Our valuation puts ASCA’s worth closer to $40.
FDX
With FedEx Express margins at a 30+ year low and 4-7 percentage points behind competitors, the opportunity for effective cost reductions appears significant. FedEx Ground is using its structural advantages to take market share from UPS. FDX competes in a highly consolidated industry with rational pricing. Both the Ground and Express divisions could be separately worth more than FDX’s current market value, in our view.
HOLX
HOLX remains one of our favorite longer-term fundamental growth companies given growing penetration of its 3D Tomo platform and high leverage to the 2014 Insurance Expansion from the Affordable Care Act.
Asset Allocation
CASH | 32% | US EQUITIES | 20% | |
INTL EQUITIES | 24% | COMMODITIES | 0% | |
FIXED INCOME | 0% | INTL CURRENCIES | 24% |
THREE FOR THE ROAD
TWEET OF THE DAY
“The question is (in my prime) who looked better in cutoff jean shorts – me or @KimKardashian?” -- @KeithMcCullough
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“…fraught with arbitrary and capricious consequences.” – Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Milton Tingling on striking down New York city’s soda ban
STAT OF THE DAY
$6 million, the salary the Baltimore Ravens wouldn’t pay receiver Anquan Boldin, who they traded to San Francisco