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BEA Leaves 2nd Quarter 2018 GDP Growth Essentially Unchanged At 4.16%
In their third (and final) estimate of the US GDP for the second quarter of 2018, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported that the US economy was growing at a +4.16% annual rate, down an inconsequential -0.07% from their previous estimate and but still up +1.94% from the prior quarter. None of the reported revisions were […]
Featured Stock In September’s Safest Dividend Yields Model Portfolio
Four new stocks make our Safest Dividend Yields Model Portfolio this month, which was made available to members on September 20, 2018. Recap from August’s Picks The best performing large-cap stock was up 3%. Overall, four out of the 20 Safest Dividend Yields stocks outperformed the S&P in August. This Model Portfolio leverages our Robo-Analyst technology[1], which scales […]
The Two Biggest Threats To This Bull Market
This bull market seems unstoppable. Regardless of short-term events, investors have quickly looked beyond those risks to in a bid to push stock prices higher. For example, in February of this year the markets dove roughly 10% as “trade wars” became a “thing.” Over the next two months, the markets vacillated coming to grips with what “Trump’s war with China” would […]
September 2018 Initial Unemployment Claims Rolling Average Marginally Worsens
The market expectations for weekly initial unemployment claims (from Nasdaq/Econoday) were 210 K to 305 K (consensus 214,000), and the Department of Labor reported 214,000 new claims. The more important (because of the volatility in the weekly reported claims and seasonality errors in adjusting the data) 4 week moving average moved from 206,000 (reported last […]
3 Bull Stocks Driving Analysts Crazy
If you want to know which stocks analysts are getting excited about right now, turn to TipRanks’ Trending Stocks tool. Over the week, TipRanks’ algorithms have churned through all the Street’s latest ratings to reveal the best-rated stocks right now. Here we look at the results on a one-week basis but you can shift this to one […]
Racing A Thunderstorm: Indonesia’s Fifth Rate Hike Since May Underscores EM Fed Angst
Well, you can’t say Bank Indonesia isn’t trying. On Thursday, BI hiked rates for a fifth time since May, the latest in a series of increasingly frantic efforts to shore up the rupiah in the face of the Fed’s tightening cycle. Simply put, these hikes aren’t working: (Bloomberg) Although acute crises in Turkey and Argentina […]
The Three Largest Cryptocurrencies – Thursday, Sept. 27
With so much focus on bitcoin lately, we’ve added a new weekly update that tracks the three largest cryptocurrencies by market share: bitcoin, Ether, and Ripple. According to Wikipedia, a cryptocurrency is “a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange that uses cryptography to secure its transactions, to control the creation of additional […]
Hold Back The Barrels
Hold Back the barrels and we’ll have a barrel of fun. Hold back the barrels and we will get crude on the run. Zing boom tararrel, the breakout in oil is clear, now when you hold back the barrels the short fall is here. Oil prices tried to back off after the Energy Information Administration […]
3 Boring Companies Ready To Outperform
Seems like the well-known names and cannabis stocks are getting all the attention. But there are attractive opportunities out there that the market 1. hasn’t caught onto 2. doesn’t care about because it isn’t sexy enough Here are 3 that caught my eye and the criteria I’m using to find them. Searching Criteria While papers […]
The Fed Is Facing Two Bubbles… And It Can Only Save One
Yesterday, the Federal Reserve stated it would no longer be “accommodative” with its monetary policy. On that same day, Fed chair Jerome Powell stated that stock market valuations were in the “upper reaches of historic ranges” i.e. bubbly. And most importantly, the Fed stated it would likely hike rates again in 2018… with another three […]
