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Sensex Opens Flat; IMD Predicts Normal Monsoon For 2018
Asian share markets are lower today as Japanese and Hong Kong shares fall. The Nikkei 225 is off 0.1% while the Hang Seng is down 0.2%. The Shanghai Composite is trading down by 0.4%. Back home, India share markets opened the day on a flat note. The BSE Sensex is trading higher by 15 points while the NSE Nifty is trading up by 3 points. The BSE […]
S&P 500 And Nasdaq 100 Forecast – Tuesday, April 17
S&P 500 The S&P 500 rallied significantly during the trading session on Monday, gaining almost a full percent by the time we started to close out the session. The market looks likely to break above the 2680 handle, and that should send the market towards the 2700 level next. Beyond there, the market will go […]
U.S. Consumer Spending Surges In March
The U.S. retail sales grew more than expected in March, making it the first gain in four months and suggested that consumer spending has started regaining steam on the back of tax cuts and refunds. Retail sales surged by 0.6 percent in March, following a 0.1 percent decline in February, the Commerce Department showed on […]
Oil ETFs Rally On Geopolitical Tensions
Oil prices have had a good week, as increased concerns in the Middle East caused investors to brace for a supply disruption. Although Energy Information Administration (EIA) data showed a higher-than-expected weekly increase in crude inventories, the markets shrugged off inventory build fears owing to geopolitical worries. What’s Impacting Prices? Official data from the Energy […]
Weekly Gasoline Price Update: Regular And Premium Up A Nickel, WTIC Up 4.4%
It’s time again for our weekly gasoline update based on data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). The price of Regular and Premium were up a nickel each from last week. According to GasBuddy.com, California has the highest average price for Regular at $3.55 and San Francisco, CA is the most expensive city, averaging $3.68. Oklahoma […]
Will Jay Powell Murder The Expansion In 2020?
Recently I have credited Fed chief Jay Powell for having moved closer to a more rule-based monetary policy and I have expressed the hope that we could be entering a new regime – a Powell Standard. This is probably somewhat overly optimistic, but it mostly reflects the fact that inflation expectations (and our forecasts for US inflation) […]
Throwing Money Into Tech Startups Will End In Tears
The tech startup boom has been one of the most important and visible economic “growth engines” of the past half-decade. The boom was spurred, in large part, by the success and excitement over Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, and similar companies, which led to a widespread search for the “Next Facebook” or billion dollar “unicorn” company. Unfortunately, […]
Natural Gas Ticks Higher As Summer Contracts Catch A Bid
The prompt month May natural gas contract rose a bit more than half a percent today as the summer contracts caught more of a bid. After gapping up weakly, prompt prices were unable to continue much higher, settling right at the $2.752 level they opened at. Through the day contracts at the front of the […]
It’s Not China That’s Dumping US Treasuries…
Recent fears, warranted or not about the potential for retaliatory liquidation by China of its US Treasury holdings appear to have been exaggerated because according to the latest TIC data released, the trade-war enemy added $8.5 billion in TSYs in February (the most of any nation and the biggest monthly addition in six months)… But while […]
Why Acacia Communications And Lumentum Holdings Are Cratering
Shares of Acacia Communications (ACIA) and Lumentum Holdings (LITE) both fell hard today. This is because one of their largest potential customers, China’s ZTE has been banned. What is going on? The U.S. Department of Commerce is banning American companies from selling components to Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE Corp for seven years for violating the […]
