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Partnerships & Buyouts To Drive Salesforce (CRM) Q3 Earnings

Partnerships & Buyouts To Drive Salesforce (CRM) Q3 Earnings

Salesforce.com, Inc. (CRM – Free Report) is set to report third-quarter fiscal 2018 results on Nov 21. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the quarter is pegged at 37 cents, representing a year-over-year increase of a whopping 52%. Additionally, analysts polled by Zacks project revenues of roughly $2.65 billion, up 23.5% from the year-ago quarter. Let’s see what’s driving this […]
Short Volatility Strategies And A Word Of Caution

Short Volatility Strategies And A Word Of Caution

This week will be a shortened trading week as we celebrate Thanksgiving Day on Thursday for which the markets will be closed. Of course the retailers will be opening their doors in the evening for shoppers to get a jump-start on the holiday gift-giving season. So what better way and time to publish my latest […]
Strong Earnings For Small-Cap Cyclicals

Strong Earnings For Small-Cap Cyclicals

By The Royce Funds Co-CIO Francis Gannon on the promising pace of small-cap earnings and what expanding global growth could mean for certain small-cap cyclicals. Image source: Wikimedia Commons The pace of small-cap earnings continues to trend in a positive direction, with results in many cases exceeding expectations. Our friends at Furey Research Partners recently reported that, with […]
Creating Easy Income Throughout Retirement

Creating Easy Income Throughout Retirement

Retirement is a tricky thing to arrange. There are so many ways to approach it, whether through wealth, government assistance, increased frugality, or easy/passive income options. Passive income is the one we want to focus on, partially because it’s getting so much attention recently from people who are not even close to retirement. There are […]
Gold Clout, Dollar Rout, Tax Bill Doubt

Gold Clout, Dollar Rout, Tax Bill Doubt

Through Thursday of this past week, Gold for all the world was yet again reprising its rendition of  “Nowhere Man” –(The Beatles, ’65), apparently en route to a fourth consecutive weekly net change of less than 10 points. But then come Thursday evening was the termination of the “Sell the rumour” (from back in mid-October’s […]
GBP/USD Weekly Analysis – Sunday, November 19

GBP/USD Weekly Analysis – Sunday, November 19

GBP/USD stays above a bullish trend line on the daily chart and remains in the uptrend from 1.1946 (Oct 2016 low). As long as the price is above the trend line, the fall from 1.3657 could be treated as consolidation of the uptrend and another rise to the falling trend line on the weekly chart is still […]
Weekly Economic & Political Timeline – Sunday, November, 19

Weekly Economic & Political Timeline – Sunday, November, 19

This week will see a heavier yet still relatively light news agenda, with the key items coming as Central Bank input for the U.S. and Australian Dollars and the British Pound, as well as the Euro to a lesser extent. The market will probably be most active on Wednesday. It is a public holiday in […]
Week In Review: How Trump’s Policies Moved Stocks – Sunday, November, 19

Week In Review: How Trump’s Policies Moved Stocks – Sunday, November, 19

Catch up on the top industries and stocks that were impacted, or were predicted to be impacted, by the comments, actions and policies of President Trump and his administration with this weekly recap compiled by The Fly: 1. TIME WARNER: President Donald Trump, who has often been critical of news network CNN since he began […]
Weekly Forex Forecast – Sunday, November 19

Weekly Forex Forecast – Sunday, November 19

NZD/USD The New Zealand dollar has had a rough week yet again, testing the 0.68 level. I believe that if we break down below the lows of the week, we will continue the downward pressure. Any rally at this point in time will probably face a significant amount of resistance near the 0.70 level as […]
Weekly Trading Forecast: US Politics May Trump Economics Again

Weekly Trading Forecast: US Politics May Trump Economics Again

Financial markets are likely to remain at the mercy of US politics despite a flurry of speeches from key central bankers and several big-splash releases on the economic calendar. US Dollar Forecast: Politics to Overshadow Yellen Speech, FOMC Minutes The US Dollar is likely to remain at the mercy of politics-driven volatility as inflationary fiscal stimulus prospects […]