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Are You Prepared For Friday After AAPL Earnings?

Are You Prepared For Friday After AAPL Earnings?

Video Length: 00:06:58 Friday’s session gives us aftermarket reactions for major stocks including Apple (AAPL) along with the Monthly Jobs Report. Corey Rosenbloom reviews key stocks you may be able to trade on earnings and expected move along with levels to watch for Friday’s session.
Illumina To Acquire Pacific Biosciences For $8 Per Share

Illumina To Acquire Pacific Biosciences For $8 Per Share

Illumina (ILMN) and Pacific Biosciences (PACB) announced they have signed an agreement for Illumina to acquire Pacific Biosciences at a price of $8.00 per Pacific Biosciences share in an all-cash transaction. This price represents a premium of 71% to Pacific Biosciences’ 30 trading day volume weighted average share price as of the market close on […]
Apple Tumbles On Soft Guidance, IPhone Sales Miss

Apple Tumbles On Soft Guidance, IPhone Sales Miss

With Apple the last remaining hope to bring back some enthusiasm for the flagging FAANG/growth sector – and perhaps overall market – investors were focused on three key things that Apple would report in its earnings report today: i) whether the average selling price of its iPhone would remain above $700 (and continue rising), indicating […]
Let’s Just Pretend This Isn’t Happening, Again

Let’s Just Pretend This Isn’t Happening, Again

Why aren’t more people talking about this? It’s a huge development and nary a peep anywhere. The mainstream media is filled with baited expectations for 3% wage growth on Payroll Friday. All eyes are on the labor market, which is a lagging indication, instead of on the oil market, which is forward-looking. As of this […]
Emerging Markets – Always A Good Addition To A Portfolio, But Maybe A Great One Now?

Emerging Markets – Always A Good Addition To A Portfolio, But Maybe A Great One Now?

The trauma of the Great Financial Crisis of 2008 emanated from the United States, intensified in the United States, and ultimately caused the most pain in the financial markets of the United States. It resulted in American equities being heavily discounted on quantitative measures to levels not seen in many years. The undeniable economic distress […]
FANG Stocks Change Review

FANG Stocks Change Review

Change comes to everything and now a big surprise change has come to the FANG stocks. In the charts below the FANG stocks (FB, AAPL, AMZN, NFLX, GOOG) are compared to the benchmark XLU (utility stocks) sector rotation chart. Utility stocks are nice and safe and slow. There is an excellent control set against the aggressive FANG […]
Chinese Activity Drags Down EM Asia Per Markit PMIs

Chinese Activity Drags Down EM Asia Per Markit PMIs

Overnight, Markit released October manufacturing PMI data for a big swath of the global economy. One notable area of weakness was EM Asia. While China’s Markit manufacturing PMI was up sequentially from 50.0 to 50.1, an average of seven other EM Asia economies (South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam) made new cycle lows. […]
Only 28% Of Americans Are “Financially Healthy” During The Largest Wealth Bubble

Only 28% Of Americans Are “Financially Healthy” During The Largest Wealth Bubble

MarketWatch published a piece today called “Here is the ‘true state’ of Americans’ financial lives,” which stated that 42% of Americans have no retirement savings at all and that only 28% of Americans are considered “financially healthy”: The finances of Americans may not be as good as they look from the outside. Despite optimistic metrics like […]
Agriculture Markets Report – Thursday, Nov. 1

Agriculture Markets Report – Thursday, Nov. 1

A review of the day’s trading in the agriculture markets. Video Length: 00:07:53