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The View Of The S&P 500 From The Futures

The View Of The S&P 500 From The Futures

The second week of October 2018 was one of the most interesting for the S&P 500 (Index: SPX) in quite some time. For our purposes, to qualify as interesting, the S&P 500 needs to change in value by 2% or more on any given day, and Week 2 of October 2018 had two days that met […]
Medtronic Had A Great Year; How Good The Next?

Medtronic Had A Great Year; How Good The Next?

This week I’m seeking a prestigious and long-term dividend-paying stock from the healthcare business sector.  That healthcare sector includes ten industries all related to testing, diagnosing and treating what ails us. Healthcare industries are: biotechnology; diagnostics & research; drug manufacturers – major and – specialty & generic; healthcare plans; long-term care facilities; medical care; medical […]
Housing’s Most Difficult Comparisons In Years Begin Next Wednesday

Housing’s Most Difficult Comparisons In Years Begin Next Wednesday

After a real quiet week for news, next week we get retail sales, industrial production, the JOLTS report, existing home sales … and housing permits and starts. The week after, real residential fixed investment will be reported as part of Q3 GDP.  Permits and residential fixed investments will have some of the most challenging comparisons […]
Bull Of The Day: Twilio (TWLO)

Bull Of The Day: Twilio (TWLO)

San Francisco-based Twilio Inc. (TWLO – Free Report) is a company that provides cloud communications platforms, two of which are the Programmable Communications Cloud and the Super Network. Twilio enables developers to build, scale, and operate real-time communications within its software applications. It went public back in 2016, and was that year’s hottest tech IPO. 2018 has also […]
Core Retail Sales Drops By Most In 16 Months As Restaurant Spending Tumbles

Core Retail Sales Drops By Most In 16 Months As Restaurant Spending Tumbles

After a disappointing slowdown in August, retail sales were expected to rebound in September but rather dramatically missed with headline data rising just 0.1% MoM (against expectations of a 0.6% rise). However, while the “control group” beat expectations – rising 0.5% MoM (vs +0.4% exp), retail sales ex-Autos retail sales actually dropped in September by 0.1%, […]
Morning Call For Monday, Oct. 15

Morning Call For Monday, Oct. 15

Overnight Markets And News Dec E-mini S&Ps (ESZ18 -0.08%) this morning are down -0.42% on concern about escalation of U.S.-China trade tensions after President Trump on a “60 Minutes” television interview Sunday night said, “I want China to negotiate a fair deal with us. I want them to open their markets like out markets are open” […]
Bitcoin Daily Forecast – Monday, Oct. 15

Bitcoin Daily Forecast – Monday, Oct. 15

Bitcoin markets rallied slightly during the trading session on Friday, bouncing from the $6200 level. However, there is a significant amount of support underneath as well, so I think it makes sense that perhaps we would continue to climb over the weekend. We have a massive downtrend line as you all know on the daily […]
A Disturbance In The Force

A Disturbance In The Force

There seems to be a disturbance in the “world oil order”. The longtime Saudi Arabian-U.S. oil alliance is under stress at a very critical time just ahead of U.S. sanctions on Iran and right before demand surges ahead of winter and demand to rebuild the South Eastern states hit by Hurricane Michael. President Donald Trump said […]
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                        Markets Review: A Warning

E Markets Review: A Warning

A week after markets cheered the lowest level of US unemployment since the 1960’s, we are publishing a negative economic commentary for our readers, an exclusive from John Llewellyn, the former deputy economist of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development in Paris, now running a London consultancy. He writes: It is not possible to […]
CPI Aero Announces Proposed Public Offering Of Common Stock

CPI Aero Announces Proposed Public Offering Of Common Stock

EDGEWOOD, N.Y., Oct. 15, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — CPI Aerostructures, Inc. (“CPI Aero®”) (NYSE American: CVU) today announced that CPI Aero intends to offer $12,000,000 of shares of its common stock in an underwritten public offering. CPI Aero also expects to grant to the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase an additional $1,800,000 of shares […]