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A Graphic View Of The Rolling Bear Market

A Graphic View Of The Rolling Bear Market

By now, global investors should understand that a new regime of rising interest rates, quantitative tightening, trade tensions, and currency crises in emerging markets, could suggest that a worldwide rolling global bear market has developed, one that could spill into the US in 2019. “In fact, the bull has turned into a bear in many places: a growing number of […]
October 2018 Industrial Production Improved

October 2018 Industrial Production Improved

The headlines say seasonally adjusted Industrial Production (IP) improved month-over-month. Our analysis shows the three-month rolling average marginally declined. Analyst Opinion of Industrial Production There was a significant upward revision to last month’s data. The best way to view this is the 3-month rolling averages which marginally declined. Industrial production remains in a long-term upward […]
A Long-Term Look At Inflation – Friday, Nov. 16

A Long-Term Look At Inflation – Friday, Nov. 16

The Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U) released this week puts the year-over-year inflation rate at 2.52%. It is substantially below the 3.76% average since the end of the Second World War and above its 10-year moving average, now at 1.52%. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has compiled CPI data since 1913, and […]
Market Psychology & Fundamentals Mismatched

Market Psychology & Fundamentals Mismatched

“Davidson submits: Real Personal Income data begins in 1959(see the FRED chart)and Real Retail and Food Svc Sales begins in 1992(see the correlated data charted from 1992). Both have long enough history to prove themselves decent recession forecast tools. Real Personal Income flattens perhaps 18mos-24mos prior to a recession while Real Retail Sales flattens roughly […]
Binance CEO CZ Predicts A Crypto Market Bull Run

Binance CEO CZ Predicts A Crypto Market Bull Run

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, also known as CZ believes that a crypto market bull-run is inevitable. He expressed this during a recent interview with CNBC. Presently, cryptocurrency enthusiasts, HODlers and investors are growing uneasy over the almost year-long bearish stretch. Speaking on CNBC’s Crypto Trader program, CZ expressed that he was uncertain about when a bull-run […]
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                        OGE Delivers Gas, & Electric Power To OK & AR

E OGE Delivers Gas, & Electric Power To OK & AR

This week I’m seeking the one and only dividend paying stock from the utilities business sector for my Ivy portfolio.  The utilities sector has five industries including diversified, independent, regulated electric, regulated gas, and regulated water.  Today I’m reviewing a Mid-cap regulated electric company, named OGE Energy Corp. Its trading ticker symbol is OGE. OGE […]
Apple Is ‘Aggressively’ Trying To Poach Qualcomm Engineers

Apple Is ‘Aggressively’ Trying To Poach Qualcomm Engineers

Despite its fierce legal battle with Apple, Qualcomm was hoping that the iPhone maker would start using its modems in iPhones once again. But that looks increasingly unlikely. Mark Gurman of Bloomberg reports that Apple is “aggressively” trying to poach Qualcomm engineers, most likely to design radio chips for the future iPhones. Apple has posted as many as 10 […]
“Flash Recessions” And The Fed’s Panic Trigger

“Flash Recessions” And The Fed’s Panic Trigger

With Bridgewater’s Ray Dalio yesterday and Fed vice chair Richard Clarida this morning the latest voices to join the chorus of warnings about the slowing US economy as Trump’s fiscal stimulus fades and turns into a tailwind, it is only a matter of time before the historic growth decoupling between the US and the rest of the world finally […]
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                        A Review Of Three Stocks: HBI, KORS, VFC

E A Review Of Three Stocks: HBI, KORS, VFC

A review of three apparel industry companies: Hanesbrands, Michale Kors and V.F. Corporation. Video Length: 00:10:16
Nvidia Falls Off A Cliff

Nvidia Falls Off A Cliff

To say that Nvidia (NVDA) has had a rough fall would be an understatement. The severity of this recent downturn is striking on a longer-term chart (see below). The stock has more than erased its YTD gains at this point, falling to its lowest levels since the summer/early fall of 2017. Since peaking on October 1st, […]