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Rail Week Ending 20 October 2018: Growth Rate Continues To Slow

Rail Week Ending 20 October 2018: Growth Rate Continues To Slow

Week 42 of 2018 shows same week total rail traffic (from same week one year ago) improved according to the Association of American Railroads (AAR) traffic data. Unfortunately, rail is approaching no growth. Analyst Opinion of the Rail Data Rail’s good growth seems to be running out – and the overall rate of growth in 2018 has […]
What’s Driving The Stock Market Skid?

What’s Driving The Stock Market Skid?

(Video length 00:07:31) On the latest edition of Market Week in Review, Senior Investment Strategist Paul Eitelman and Consulting Director Sophie Antal Gilbert discussed the ongoing volatility in markets, the U.S. GDP growth rate for the third quarter and the European Central Bank (ECB)’s plans for ending quantitative easing. Market slump continues. Is earnings season […]
Market Talk – Friday, Oct. 26

Market Talk – Friday, Oct. 26

Initial early gains were lost as the lack of momentum continues to weigh on sentiment. Markets are getting used to large intraday price swings and the consequence is the lack of conviction and follow-through. Core China markets have suffered more than most this year, but the 8% decline in the Shanghai in October alone just […]
Hot Options Report For End Of Day – Friday, Oct. 26

Hot Options Report For End Of Day – Friday, Oct. 26

Data Courtesy of Trade Alert 
In Search Of A Bearish Trigger

In Search Of A Bearish Trigger

A large asset manager has decided to offer Bitcoin trading to its institutional investors. Bitcoin shot up around the announcement but reversed course and erased most of the move up. The currency has stayed subdued since. This could mean that the market is getting boring. It could also mean that investors and traders are taking […]
Hitting The Low Ceiling

Hitting The Low Ceiling

We will hear all day and for the next month (at least) about the two best quarters of GDP growth in four years. Somehow this will be used to justify calling this an economic boom, even though those two quarters in 2014 supposedly didn’t qualify. And they were better quarters, at least so far as […]
AUD/USD: Does The Big Intraday Reversal Indicate A Near-Term Bottom?

AUD/USD: Does The Big Intraday Reversal Indicate A Near-Term Bottom?

This morning’s US session started much in the same way as some of the previous days this week: with US stock indices opening deeply in the red. After a bounce-back yesterday, risk sentiment was hurt by disappointing earnings reports from tech giants Amazon and Alphabet, and by 11:00 ET (15:00 GMT), the widely watched Dow […]
51 Firms Going Ex-Dividend Next Week, Including Clorox, Unilever And Citigroup

51 Firms Going Ex-Dividend Next Week, Including Clorox, Unilever And Citigroup

There are several well known large cap stocks going ex-dividend next week including the following four Top 100 Dividend Stocks: Realty Income, CMS Energy, Unilever and Eaton Corp. Ex-dividend dates are important to dividend investors because one must own a stock on its ex-dividend date in order to be eligible to receive its next dividend. Any stock ranked by […]
US Dollar Weekly Price Outlook – DXY To Fresh Highs Or Turn & Dive?

US Dollar Weekly Price Outlook – DXY To Fresh Highs Or Turn & Dive?

In this series, we scale-back and take a look at the broader technical picture to gain a bit more perspective on where we are in trend. The US Dollar is up nearly 3% from the September lows with the index now approaching the yearly highs into the close of the month. Here are the key targets & invalidation levels that […]
Q2 Real GDP Per Capita: 3.55% Versus The 4.23% Headline Real GDP – Friday, Oct. 26

Q2 Real GDP Per Capita: 3.55% Versus The 4.23% Headline Real GDP – Friday, Oct. 26

The Second Estimate for Q2 GDP came in at 4.2% (4.23% to two decimals), up from 2.2% in Q1. With a per-capita adjustment, the headline number is lower at 3.55% to two decimal points. Here is a chart of real GDP per capita growth since 1960. For this analysis, we’ve chained in today’s dollar for […]