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                        Stock Analysis: Salesforce.com, Inc.

E Stock Analysis: Salesforce.com, Inc.

Let’s take a new look at Salesforce.com from a new perspective. Video Length: 00:03:09
USDCHF: Vulnerable, Retains Its Bearishness

USDCHF: Vulnerable, Retains Its Bearishness

USDCHF: The pair looks to move further lower as it continues to hold on to its downside pressure. On the downside, support lies at the 0.9600 level. A turn below here will open the door for more weakness towards the 0.9550 level and then the 0.9500 level. On the upside, resistance resides at the 0.9700 […]
Chart(s) Of The Week: Yellen’s Mouth Opens

Chart(s) Of The Week: Yellen’s Mouth Opens

It sounds a little like regret. It also leans in the direction of confirming that policymakers know they’ve messed up, big time. This has become the established pattern, for good reason. What they don’t know, to our collective downfall, is what to do about it. They’ve decided just to pretend while in office it didn’t […]
Gold-Stock Forced Capitulation

Gold-Stock Forced Capitulation

The gold miners’ stocks suffered a rare capitulation selloff over the past month or so. Selling cascaded to extremes as stop losses were sequentially triggered, battering this contrarian sector to exceedingly-low levels. While very challenging psychologically, capitulations are super-bullish. They rapidly exhaust all near-term selling potential, leaving gold stocks wildly oversold and undervalued which births […]
Why Valuation Determines Total Dividend Payments For Overvalued Stocks; Johnson & Johnson Case Study

Why Valuation Determines Total Dividend Payments For Overvalued Stocks; Johnson & Johnson Case Study

Introduction In response to my recent article, a question was asked that I believe deserved a good answer. The following excerpt of the comment really reached out to me because this person claims to have been asking this question for 5 years without receiving a good answer. Here is the excerpt: “Again, someone please explain […]
From Government Policy To Natural Catastrophe: Tobacco Stocks Face Mounting Challenges

From Government Policy To Natural Catastrophe: Tobacco Stocks Face Mounting Challenges

Pressure against U.S.-based tobacco companies has been building recently, amid ongoing trade disputes, the potential for stricter product regulation, as well as the likelihood of regional crop damage from Hurricane Florence. Shares of North Carolina-headquartered Pyxus International (NYSE: PYX), for example, took a nosedive in intraday trading Thursday, as the company grapples with a host […]
You Want The Debt? You Can’t Handle The Debt!

You Want The Debt? You Can’t Handle The Debt!

David Stockman, former budget director for President Ronald Reagan, says “I think all hell is going to break loose,” as the result of the Trump tax cut. Past assertions indicate he expects a 40 to 70% stock market collapse, but no idea when. For Stockman it has always been about debt and that we ‘can’t handle […]
The Right Medicine? Turkey Hikes Interest Rates To Combat Financial Crisis

The Right Medicine? Turkey Hikes Interest Rates To Combat Financial Crisis

                                                           (Video length 00:06:50) On the latest edition of Market Week in Review, Senior Investment Strategist Paul Eitelman and Consulting Director Sophie Antal Gilbert discussed the market […]
Chart: Global Consumer Sentiment Trends

Chart: Global Consumer Sentiment Trends

The global GDP weighted consumer sentiment index dipped slightly in September, but stayed within its upward trend, and continued its divergence against the global manufacturing PMI. That last point is worth highlighting.  Consumer sentiment is often understood to be more of a lagging/coincident indicator and hence the weakness in the PMI may flow through later. […]
Natural Gas Finished Week Flat After Late-Week Selling

Natural Gas Finished Week Flat After Late-Week Selling

The October natural gas contract settled just a cent lower Friday compared to last week, rallying Monday and Tuesday before reversing Wednesday and Thursday and selling off today.  We saw short-term upside into resistance from $2.85-$2.88 as possible with any rallies failing but $2.75 support holding. Friday we saw about equal weakness along the front […]