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The Dollar Is Central To The Next Crisis

The Dollar Is Central To The Next Crisis

Introduction and summary It is now possible to pencil in how the next credit crisis is likely to develop. At its centre is an overvalued dollar over-owned by foreigners, puffed up on speculative flows driven by interest rate differentials. These must be urgently corrected by the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan if […]
Import Prices Unexpectedly Drop 0.6%, Most In 18 Months: Export Prices Drop 0.1%

Import Prices Unexpectedly Drop 0.6%, Most In 18 Months: Export Prices Drop 0.1%

Import prices fell 0.6%. Economists expected a 0.1% decline. Export prices fell 0.1%. Economists expected a 0.2% rise. The BLS report on Import and Export Prices surprised economists with unexpected declines. Import Prices Key Points Synopsis*: Import prices declined 0.6 percent in August, the largest monthly drop since the index fell 1.3 percent in January 2016*. The […]
3 Reasons Why The USD Is On Its Feet Again

3 Reasons Why The USD Is On Its Feet Again

The US Dollar is back from a break, gaining ground across the board. A mix of optimism, good enough data and rising yields is behind the greenback comeback. The US Dollar dropped on Thursday amid disappointing inflation data. Risk currencies also enjoyed no news on the trade tariffs that the Trump Administration wants to impose on China. […]
August 2018 Import Price Year-Over-Year Inflation Moderated

August 2018 Import Price Year-Over-Year Inflation Moderated

Year-over-year import prices significantly declined whilst export price inflation also significantly declined. Analyst Opinion of the Import / Export Price Situation Month-over-month price index for fuel imports significantly declined (and non-fuel imports modestly declined) – and food exports increased. Import Oil prices were down 3.9 % month-over-month, and export agricultural prices were up 0.2 %. […]
Splunk Continues To Acquire

Splunk Continues To Acquire

A recent Market Research Future report published this year Billion Dollar Unicorn club member Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK) recently announced its second quarter results that surpassed all market expectations. Splunk’s Financials Revenues for the quarter grew 39% over the year to $388.3 million, significantly ahead of the market’s expectations of $358.4 million. It ended the quarter with a […]
Enhance Your Returns With 4 Relative Price Strength Stocks

Enhance Your Returns With 4 Relative Price Strength Stocks

Investors generally gauge a stock’s potential return by examining earnings growth and valuation multiples. At the same time, it’s important to measure the performance of such a stock relative to its industry or peers, or the appropriate benchmark. If you see that a stock is underperforming on fundamental factors, then it would be prudent to […]
Oil Trading And Round Number Effects

Oil Trading And Round Number Effects

The “round number effect” is an endless source of fascination in the worlds of both trading and statistics. Human brains, after all, tend to think in round numbers. A market pundit on television may say, “If the price of stock XYZ gets below $8.00, it’ll be worth buying.” He won’t say, “if it gets below […]
Robert Shiller: Look For One Final Surge In Stocks Before The Crash

Robert Shiller: Look For One Final Surge In Stocks Before The Crash

It seems like only yesterday that Robert Shiller, a Nobel-Prize winning economist (and esteemed member of the Yale School of Management’s faculty), was telling anybody Robert Shiller, that the US equity market was headed for a vertigo-inducing correction. But with stocks once again hovering near record highs, it seems that Shiller – the co-creator of the Shiller P/E ratio – […]
August Retail Sales: Up 0.1% MoM, Worse Than Forecast

August Retail Sales: Up 0.1% MoM, Worse Than Forecast

The Census Bureau’s Advance Retail Sales Report for August was released this morning. Headline sales came in at 0.1% month-over-month to one decimal and was worse than the Investing.com forecast of 0.4%. Core sales (ex Autos) came in at 0.32% MoM (to two decimals). Revisions were made to June and July figures. Here is the introduction from […]
Retail Sales Growth Little Changed In August 2018

Retail Sales Growth Little Changed In August 2018

Retail sales were slightly up according to US Census headline data. The unadjusted rolling averages rate of growth was unchanged. Analyst Opinion of Retail Sales There was modest upward adjustment of last month’s data. This was a relatively strong report. Things to consider when viewing this data: it is not inflation adjusted. the three-month rolling […]