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Fidelity Builds A Safe Highway For Institutional Investors

Fidelity Builds A Safe Highway For Institutional Investors

Perhaps you think this changes everything. Or perhaps you think this changes nothing. Either way, regarding Fidelity’s recent announcement, you’d be right. Fidelity is spinning off a 100-person-strong company. Its mission? To provide cryptocurrency trading services for the big boys – funds, endowments, family offices, and sophisticated investors. But don’t tell the market it’s big […]
FOMC Minutes Signal ‘Hawkish’ Fed Ready To Hike Above Neutral

FOMC Minutes Signal ‘Hawkish’ Fed Ready To Hike Above Neutral

After Powell’s ‘reassuring’ hawkish speech, following the briefly dovishly-interpreted Fed statement, all eyes are back on the FOMC Minutes today to see just how assuredly The Fed will stick to its 25bps-per-quarter trajectory, come hell (stock crash) or high water (inflation). The labor market (judged by the unemployment rate) has rarely been lower and inflation is right […]
Wall Street Remains Firm Despite Volatility: 5 Growth Picks

Wall Street Remains Firm Despite Volatility: 5 Growth Picks

On Oct 16, Wall Street rebounded from the rout it suffered in the last week. All three major stock indexes – the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite — closed significantly higher, marking their biggest single-day gain since Mar 26. This is a clear indication that the stock market meltdown in October was transitory in […]
Retail Sales Report – 5% Year Over Year Control Group

Retail Sales Report – 5% Year Over Year Control Group

Retail Sales Report – Decent Retail Sales Growth The September retail sales report was controversial in that both the bulls and the bears used it to support their narratives. With stocks falling on Monday, the bears were gaining confidence and ready to declare another victory. I disagree with the bears. I think this was a […]
Hiring Pace Continues To Lag Job Openings Growth

Hiring Pace Continues To Lag Job Openings Growth

If job openings are an indication of the economy’s strength, yesterday’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover (JOLTs) report is confirmation of economic strength. Job openings reached another record high of 7.136 million. Compared to last August’s openings of 6.044 million, openings are up 18.1% on a year over year basis.   The timing of the unemployment data […]
UK Inflation Continues To Cool

UK Inflation Continues To Cool

As we discussed in our Morning Lineup, early this morning the UK’s Office for National Statistics released its September inflation data. Overall, the report was somewhat mixed with consumer measures missing while PPI rose. Headline and core HICP came in at 2.4% YoY and 1.9%, respectively. These are both below estimates and the prior period’s reading. The […]
Oppenheimer: 6 ‘Strong Buy’ Stocks For The Next 12 Months

Oppenheimer: 6 ‘Strong Buy’ Stocks For The Next 12 Months

Following last week’s heavy selling, the market moved sharply higher at the start of this week. “Earnings season is coming up. I think that’s going to be the catalyst for the equity markets to trade back up to new all-time highs,” commented Raymond James’ Jeffery Saut. He doesn’t see the recent ‘minicrash’ as implying that […]
Housing Continues To Weaken: Starts Decline 5.3%, Permits Down 0.6%

Housing Continues To Weaken: Starts Decline 5.3%, Permits Down 0.6%

Starts, permits, and completions are down across the board as home buying continues to weaken. The Census Bureau New Residential Construction report for September shows housing continues to weaken. Housing Starts Privately‐owned housing starts in September were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,201,000. This is 5.3 percent below the revised August estimate of 1,268,000 but […]
Visa Q4 Earnings Preview: What To Expect

Visa Q4 Earnings Preview: What To Expect

Wall Street expects a year-over-year increase in earnings on higher revenues when Visa (V – Free Report) reports results for the quarter ended September 2018. While this widely-known consensus outlook is important in gauging the company’s earnings picture, a powerful factor that could impact its near-term stock price is how the actual results compare to these estimates. […]
Most Active Equity Options And Strikes For Midday- Wednesday, Oct. 17

Most Active Equity Options And Strikes For Midday- Wednesday, Oct. 17

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