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Sensex Opens Lower; Metal & Realty Stocks Drag
Asian stock markets are lower today as Japanese and Hong Kong shares fall. The Nikkei 225 is off 0.1% while the Hang Seng is down 0.5%. The Shanghai Composite is trading down by 0.8%. Wall Street fell in a day of heavy trading on Wednesday with the S&P 500 posting its biggest percentage drop since late June as investors turned risk-averse on […]
S&P 500 And Nasdaq 100 Forecast – Thursday, August 16
S&P 500 The S&P 500 broke down significantly during trading on Wednesday, as the Americans hammered the futures market. The market did find support at 2800 though, an area that I think is vital for this market to hold. In fact, that is somewhat encouraging but I would keep tight stops if you are looking […]
Turkey’s Economy Takes A Tumble. What’s Next?
The Big Picture After recent elections, the biggest challenge for the Turkish government was stabilizing the worrisome economy. But poor U.S.-Turkey relations and investor uncertainty about Turkey’s ability to stabilize its volatile economy have pushed its currency, the lira, to an all-time low. Its crash is pressing on the country’s dollar-denominated debt and raising questions […]
The Potential Explosion In Inflation
Sean Brodrick, the Natural Resource Analysts at Weiss Ratings, shares why he thinks a major uptick in inflation is around the corner. There are some aspects of the inflation picture that are not keeping pace, but that could all change very quickly. Sean also shares with us the areas in which investors can put some […]
Measuring Global Economic Activity
Measuring the level of global economic activity is of key interest. But the measures we have on variables like industrial production don’t cover all countries and are only available with a significant lag. Michigan Professor Lutz Kilian suggested in an influential paper published in 2009 that we could get a useful timely indicator by looking at average […]
The Big Four Economic Indicators: Industrial Production Up 0.1% In July
Note: This commentary has been updated to incorporate the July data for Industrial Production. Official recession calls are the responsibility of the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee, which is understandably vague about the specific indicators on which they base their decisions. This committee statement is about as close as they get to identifying their method. There is, however, […]
Empire Manufacturing Rebounds
Manufacturing activity in the New York region heated up right with the temperature in August as the Empire Manufacturing survey unexpectedly rose to 25.6 versus estimates for a reading of 20. As shown below, the tracker for General Business conditions hit its highest level since last October. Expectations, however, remain a bit more subdued. While the […]
Cisco Systems (CSCO) Q4 Earnings And Revenues Top Estimates
Cisco Systems (CSCO – Free Report) came out with quarterly earnings of $0.70 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.69 per share. This compares to earnings of $0.61 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items. This quarterly report represents an earnings surprise of 1.45%. A quarter ago, it was expected […]
US Unit Labor Costs Slump Most In 4 Years… ‘Spark’ Productivity Gains
Great news America – US worker productivity jumped in Q2 by 2.9% QoQ, the best gain since Q1 2015. However, unit labor costs (what Americans are being paid to be productive) tumbled 0.9% QoQ in Q2, the biggest slump since Q3 2014. So, do you want the good news… or the bad news? As Bloomberg notes, the […]
