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Market Talk- Thursday, Oct. 26

Market Talk- Thursday, Oct. 26

China saw a mixed close with Hang Seng’s fall balancing Shanghai’s gain. Talk for China however, focused on reports that China may offer a two tranche 5 and 10yr deals having been absent from the markets for a while. At a time when yields are so low one would expect rather larger deals than is […]
Amazon Soars Above $1,000 After Smashing Expectations

Amazon Soars Above $1,000 After Smashing Expectations

Amazon has done it again, and following a lukewarm second quarter and with Goldman warning not to get too excited going into earnings, Amazon is back to its short-crushing ways, reporting both revenues and EPS which blew away expectations. In Q3, Amazon reported EPS of 52 cents, beating not only consensus estimates of 4 cents, […]
EIA Data Barely Moves Natural Gas Prices

EIA Data Barely Moves Natural Gas Prices

The Energy Information Administration report on natural gas inventories came out today generally in line with expectations, missing our expectation of +66 bcf by just 2 bcf at +64 bcf after hitting our estimate perfectly last week. We see these back-to-back hits as a sign that we have a relatively good handle on current natural […]
Stocks Fell Finally, But Dip Buyers Swooped In

Stocks Fell Finally, But Dip Buyers Swooped In

Extreme Optimism Leads To A Small Decline In Stocks The market finally took a breather on Wednesday. It wasn’t a major sell-off because dip buyers appeared mid-day. It was healthy to see because the run had gotten ridiculous. The S&P 500 fell 0.47%. It was driven lower by weak Chipotle earnings and poor AMD guidance. […]
Amazon.com, Inc. 3Q17 Earnings Send Shares Higher

Amazon.com, Inc. 3Q17 Earnings Send Shares Higher

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) 3Q17 earnings were released after closing bell tonight, and the company posted earnings of 52 cents per share on $43.7 billion in revenue. Analysts had been expecting a breakeven result on $41.74 billion in revenue, while the company had guided for sales to come in between $39.25 billion and $41.12 billion. In the year-ago […]
Toll Brothers – Chart Of The Day

Toll Brothers – Chart Of The Day

Toll Brothers (TOL) is the Barchart Chart of the Day.The home builder has a Trend Spotter buy signal, a Weighted Alpha of 65.07+ and gained 61.42% in the last year. The Chart of the Day belongs to Toll Brothers (TOL). I found the home builder stock by using Barchart to sort the Russell 3000 Index stocks first for the most frequent […]
Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – After The Bell

Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – After The Bell

The big tickle today was the strength in the Dollar index based on Euro weakness, thanks to Monsieur Draghi. There was a minor option expiration for gold on the Comex today. I do not think that drove the action in the metals, compared to the big spike in the Dollar. After the bell we will […]
All Of The World’s Money And Markets In One Visualization

All Of The World’s Money And Markets In One Visualization

 
Q3 Earnings To Drive Energy ETFs Higher

Q3 Earnings To Drive Energy ETFs Higher

The energy sector has given impressive performances in the last few months on improving demand and supply dynamics. The ultra-popular ETFs Energy Select Sector SPDR (XLE – Free Report) , Vanguard Energy ETF (VDE – Free Report) , iShares U.S. Energy ETF (IYE – Free Report) and Fidelity MSCI Energy Index ETF (FENY – Free Report) gained 3.3%, 2.4%, 2.7% and 2.4%, respectively, in the last three […]
October 2017 Kansas City Fed Manufacturing Remains Positive And Improves

October 2017 Kansas City Fed Manufacturing Remains Positive And Improves

 Of the four regional manufacturing surveys released for October, all were in expansion. Analyst Opinion of Kansas City Fed Manufacturing Kansas City Fed manufacturing has been one of the more stable districts and their index improved. Key internals were in expansion. There were no market expectations from Bloomberg / Econoday. The reported value was -23. […]