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What’s Driving The Currency Crisis In Turkey?
(Video length 00:05:51) On the latest edition of Market Week in Review, Chief Investment Strategist Erik Ristuben and Sam Templeton, manager, global communications, discussed the recent strong performance in U.S. markets as well as the financial crisis engulfing Turkey. S&P 500 tests all-time high as strong earnings power markets U.S. markets have surged in recent […]
USD/JPY Weakness To Persist Bearish Formations Take Shape
Fundamental Forecast for Japanese Yen: Bullish Fresh developments coming out of the U.S. economy have done little to influence the near-term outlook for USD/JPY even as the data prints put pressure on the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) to raise the benchmark interest rate, and recent price action raises the risk for a further decline in […]
Who’s Really ‘Winning’ The Trade War? The Truth Behind The Rhetoric
Over the past two months, the battle lines have been drawn in the escalating global trade conflict and Donald Trump likes to pitch himself as a kind of male Wonder Woman, taking fire so that the beleaguered American worker can finally gain the upper hand in the battle to reclaim lost industrial “greatness”. But the […]
Retail Collapse: Here Are 2018’s 57 Biggest Store Closings
Closed storefronts are typical in American cities across shopping malls that once flourished in commercial zones of suburbia are now empty and abandoned. As the retail apocalypse deepens, more than 3,800 stores are expected to close across the country this year. Department stores like Kmart, Macy’s, Sears, and JCPenney, and retailers including Best Buy, Payless, BCBG, Abercrombie […]
The Papa John’s Disaster Could Be Domino’s And Pizza Hut’s Gain
Papa John’s PZZA sales are suffering after the ex-CEO of the company, John Schnatter, was publicly denounced for using racist language. Considering this, Domino’s Pizza’s DPZ stance in the pizza industry remains hopeful. With Papa John’s customers turning their backs from their once-favorite pizza store, other pizza stores are left to catch their hearts. Even though Papa John’s made […]
Third Point Adds NXP And Campbell’s Soup Stakes, Exits Alphabet Class A
Third Point disclosed in an SEC filing its holdings as of June 30. Third Point’s 13 new buys in the quarter included, by size of position, NXP Semiconductors (NXPI), PayPal (PYPL), Visa (V), Campbell Soup (CPB), and Deere (DE). The firm exited 14 positions during the quarter including, by size of previous position, Alphabet Class […]
Value Hedge Funds Biding Their Time As Calling A Top Gets Trickier
Any time the markets have been soaring up, up, and away, it’s only a matter of time before the tides will turn. Value hedge funds have been struggling as momentum and growth dominated the day, but we’re finally starting to see signs of change. Multiple hedge funds have written in their second-quarter letters about how the markets were […]
Spectacular Gold COT Report: Prepare For A Huge Six Months
No need to mince words anymore. If the futures market still influences gold’s price, then that price is going to spike. And silver is better than gold. Since January, gold futures speculators have been trending from extremely bullish to scared short. And in the week ending last Tuesday (the most recent data available) they appeared to capitulate, […]
Why I Am Not Worrying About Warren Buffett’s Record Stash Of Cash
A recent Business Insider (BI) heading warned boldly: “Why Warren Buffett’s record-breaking cash stockpile should have investors very worried.” The BI’s evidence comes in the form of a record stash of over $130 billion of idling cash combined with major indices, like the S&P 500 (SPY), at or near all-time highs. Putting the two observations […]
Weekly Wrap: Markets Treading Water While Economic Data Sinks
Monday, the markets were unsurprisingly quiet. With the bulk of earnings season in the rear view mirror, save for a few remaining big names, the summer doldrums and vacations led to the day having the third lowest trading volume of the year at just 2.6 billion shares, compared to the 3.5 billion daily average for […]
