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Fitbit In Focus Amid Expanded Strategic Partnership With Humana

Fitbit In Focus Amid Expanded Strategic Partnership With Humana

Shares of smartband and smartwatch maker Fitbit (FIT) are higher after the company announced it is expanding its strategic partnership with Humana (HUM) to drive healthy habits and manage chronic disease. STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP EXPANSION: On Wednesday, Fitbit and Humana announced that they are expanding their partnership to help members adopt and implement healthy behaviors to […]
The Bullish Case

The Bullish Case

Some investors see daily moves of hundreds of points in the Dow Industrials and say that the market is just too volatile for them, they want no part of it.  Wrong. Volatility is actually low. In fact, there hasn’t been even a modest 11-percent decline since February of 2016. Why is volatility low? Why are […]
Brazil Money Math

Brazil Money Math

On June 10, 2013, Brazil’s central bank announced an allotment of 40,000 currency swap contracts at an auction. This was the second operation carried out in short order that month, following weakness in the real, Brazil’s currency (BRL), against the dollar. In order to forestall any further declines, central bank intervention has long been a […]
USD/CHF: Extends Price Recovery With Risk Toward 0.9719

USD/CHF: Extends Price Recovery With Risk Toward 0.9719

USD/CHF: The pair remains biased upside on price recovery. This is coming on the back of its second day of strength. On the downside, support lies at the 0.9650 level. A turn below here will open the door for more weakness towards the 0.9600 level and then the 0.9550 level. On the upside, resistance resides […]
Featured Stock In September’s Exec Comp & ROIC Model Portfolio

Featured Stock In September’s Exec Comp & ROIC Model Portfolio

Two new stocks make September’s Exec Comp Aligned with ROIC Model Portfolio, available to members as of September 14, 2018. Recap from August’s Picks Our Exec Comp Aligned with ROIC Model Portfolio (+1.3%) underperformed the S&P 500 (+2.5%) last month. The best performing stock in the portfolio was up 9%. Overall, six out of the […]
Bond Bloodbath Continues As Stocks Are “Up Big”, ‘Unchanged”, & “Tumbling”

Bond Bloodbath Continues As Stocks Are “Up Big”, ‘Unchanged”, & “Tumbling”

Take your pick…   FANG Stocks managed to erase Monday’s losses briefly at the open, then tumbled…   The Dollar index is practically unchanged, but bonds continue to suffer…   10Y tagged 3.09%, and 30Y just hit 3.247% – 2018 closing high…  
EUR/USD Holds Onto High Ground As Markets Ignore Trade Worries

EUR/USD Holds Onto High Ground As Markets Ignore Trade Worries

The EUR/USD is trading just under 1.1700 once again, similar to the levels seen earlier in the week but above the ranges seen last week. China announced retaliatory tariffs against the US, on $60 billion worth of US imports, far below the duties on $200 billion of Chinese imports to the US that the Administration […]
A Detailed Look At Industrial Production During This Expansion

A Detailed Look At Industrial Production During This Expansion

In the past week, there’s been a little highbrow relitigation of the drivers of the “Great Recession” between Paul Krugman and Ben Bernanke. Bernanke plumps for it having been a “credit event” — and as to the crisis of 2008, he is clearly correct — while Krugman says it was primarily a “housing event,” although Krugman also acknowledges that […]
GBP/USD Swings On CPI, Brexit As The US Dollar Digs Into Support

GBP/USD Swings On CPI, Brexit As The US Dollar Digs Into Support

BRITISH POUND SWINGS ON CPI, BREXIT HEADLINES The big mover so far on the morning is the British Pound, which has caught pushes in both directions so far on the day. The first move in the currency after the Euro open was bullish, as prices jumped-higher upon the release of August inflation numbers. But shortly after that spike, negative […]
August 2018 Residential Building Mixed

August 2018 Residential Building Mixed

The headline residential building permits slowed and construction completions improved relative to last month. But we keep our eyes on the rolling averages which told us this was generally a weaker report than last month. Analyst Opinion of Residential Building The backward revisions this month were slightly downward.The nature of this industry normally has large […]