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U.S. Bancorp Q1 Profit And Revenue Top Expectations

U.S. Bancorp Q1 Profit And Revenue Top Expectations

U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB) early Wednesday posted market-beating first quarter earnings results, helped by better loan performance and investment banking fees.
As French Election Looms, Risk Premia Spike Near Record Highs Across Every Market

As French Election Looms, Risk Premia Spike Near Record Highs Across Every Market

With establishment pollsters panicking at the closeness of the first round of the French elections, it appears investors in every market – stocks, bonds, and FX – are just as concerned with hedges and risk premia at (or near) record highs across the board. With just a few days to go before Sunday’s first round of voting, every […]
Bull Of The Day: Potlatch (PCH)

Bull Of The Day: Potlatch (PCH)

The US housing market continues to strengthen this year thanks mainly to improvement in the labor market and still low interest rates. This Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) timber REIT is well positioned to capitalize on the housing market recovery. About the Company Structured as a REIT, Potlatch (PCH – Free Report) owns approximately 1.4 million acres of forestland […]
One Week Until First Round Of French Elections

One Week Until First Round Of French Elections

​   Looking at The Data With the first round of the French elections rapidly approaching (April 23rd), voters’ sentiment appears to have settled around roughly 25% each for both centrist candidate Macron and Far-Right candidate Le Pen with Francois Fillon holding behind around 18% – 20%. The latest data reflects a gradual but steady […]
February 2017 Philly Fed Coincident Index Ticks Marginally Up

February 2017 Philly Fed Coincident Index Ticks Marginally Up

The year-over-year rate of growth of the US Coincident Index marginally increased relative to last month’s revised level. A comparison of this US Coincident Index with the Aruoba-Diebold-Scotti business conditions index, Conference Board Coincident Index, ECRI’s Coincident Index, and the Chicago Fed National Activity Index follows. Analyst Opinion of the Current Status of the Coincident […]
The Stock Whisper Of The Day: MT, SPY, MS, ZNGA, UNG, NG

The Stock Whisper Of The Day: MT, SPY, MS, ZNGA, UNG, NG

Hot stocks of the day: MT, SPY, MS, ZNGA, UNG, NG    Video length: 00:05:42
The Drain Game

The Drain Game

In the U.S. overall petroleum inventories continue to fall as the petroleum oversupply drain game has begun. Not only did we see the API report an 840,000 barrel drop in crude oil inventory but also a 1.8 million barrel drop in distillate inventory offsetting a surprise 1,347-million-barrel increase in gasoline inventory caused another drop in […]
Abbott Laboratories Q1 Revenue Surges 30% As Medical Devices Lead

Abbott Laboratories Q1 Revenue Surges 30% As Medical Devices Lead

Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) early Wednesday posted much better than expected first quarter earnings results, led by huge growth in its medical devices unit that was bolstered by a recent acquisition.
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                        Best And Worst Mid Cap – Wednesday, April 19

E Best And Worst Mid Cap – Wednesday, April 19

The best mid cap sector is utilities. The top mid cap industry is technical/system software. The average score for mid cap stocks in our universe is 54.39 and the scores averaged 57.43 over the past four weeks. The average mid cap stock in our coverage is trading -16.23% below its 52 week high, 1.29% above […]
China Eases Capital Controls As Dollar Weakens

China Eases Capital Controls As Dollar Weakens

In discussing the key overnight news in an otherwise quiet session, JPM writes that “the most important headline was prob. the one concerning China loosening some currency outflow curbs” so focusing on that, Reuters, and SCMP before it, reports that after months of draconian and ever tightening capital control, China’s central bank has relaxed some of […]