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Strong Labor Market, Weak China, And Gold
134,000. The September job gains disappointed. But the unemployment rate dropped to 3.7 percent. And there was a sharp sell-off in China’s stock market. What does it all mean for the gold market? Job Creation Disappoints, but Unemployment Rate Sinks to Record Low U.S. nonfarm payrolls slowed down in September. The economy added just 134,000 jobs last month, following […]
Deep-Value ETF Report: A Slightly Longer List
The search for deep-value plays in the ETF realm delivered a short list in August when markets were humming far and wide. Let’s take a fresh review of the landscape in the wake of recent selling, which has pinched nearly every corner of global stocks, bonds, and real estate securities. Commodities have fared better in recent weeks, […]
Euro Lower On Italy Budget Woes
The common currency Euro remained close to a 7-week trough as worries about the Italian budget persisted which raised new concerns within the European Union. Though spikes in yields on Italian bonds have recently been disregarded by FX market players, the current concerns over a possible economic slowdown in Italy coupled with global stock market […]
Oil Price Rally Boosts Electric Car Sales
Tesla’s competition is about to get more crowded next year with many legacy automakers and luxury brands launching a record number of battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids. All EV makers will have one common element that could help lift demand for battery vehicles—rising oil prices leading to fuel prices at four-year highs, which could […]
Morning Call For Tuesday, Oct. 9
Overnight Markets And News Dec E-mini S&Ps (ESZ18 -0.59%) this morning are down -0.39% and European stocks are down -0.38% at a 4-week low on a gloomier economic outlook. The IMF cut its global 2018 GDP forecast to 3.7% from 3.9% and ECB Governing Council member Vasiliauskas warned that the “risk of a sudden tightening of […]
A (Short) Reprieve For China While The Dollar Stays Firm
Overview: The small gains in China’s Shanghai Composite and the yuan is helping sentiment today. News that Italy’s budget watchdog may reject the government’s fiscal plans has helped stabilize Italian assets initially, but renewed pressure quickly materialized. Most Asian equities retreated while Europe’s Dow Jones Stoxx 600 is struggling to snap a three-day slide. US shares […]
Dividend Income Update September 2018
The beginning of every month is exciting for all dividend income investors as we look back at the previous month and see how much passive dividend income our portfolios generated. No doubt, these are the best posts to write and read online as it only provides further proof that dividend investing can work over time […]
Futures Tumble As 10Y Yield Hits Fresh 7-Year High, Italy Rout Spreads
Heading into Tuesday, there was just one thing traders wanted to know: how the 10Y cash Treasury would open after Monday’s US holiday and after last week’s rout which sent yields to multi-year highs (even as the 0.3% drop in the TLT ETF suggested more weakness for US rates). They didn’t have long to wait as the […]
NFIB Small Business Survey: September Update
The latest issue of the NFIB Small Business Economic Trends came out this morning. The headline number for September came in at 107.9, down 0.9 from the previous month. The index is at the 99th percentile in this series. Today’s number came in below the Investing.com forecast of 108.9. Here is an excerpt from the opening summary of the […]
