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Manufacturing Jobs Are Overrated
One of the reasons that Donald Trump gives for slapping new protectionist tariffs on steel and aluminum is that it will create manufacturing jobs, and by extension, greatly enhance income growth and standards of living in the United States. Trump is capitalizing on an enduring myth of American economic history in which it is believed […]
5-Day Moving Average Is Now Above All Major Moving Averages
My Swing Trading Approach Looking to see if the morning gap up can hold early on. Multiple news pieces are hitting the market (Tillerson outster, CPI reading). I will look to add 1-2 new positions early on if the market holds it together. Indicators VIX – Broke its six day losing streak by popping 7.8% higher. […]
USD/CAD Can Still Manage A Move Towards 1.31
USD/CAD continues to respect the bullish channel it is currently in. Support at 1.28 holds, while price today managed to go towards 1.2865-75 where the previous support (now resistance) is found. A new move above today’s highs will strengthen the bullish scenario as price would have made a higher low and a higher high. In […]
February Jobs Report: 313K New Jobs, Surprises Forecast
Friday morning’s employment report for February showed a 313K increase in total nonfarm payrolls, which was much better than forecasts. The unemployment rate remained at 4.1%. The Investing.com consensus was for 200K new jobs and the unemployment rate to drop to 4.0%. Here is an excerpt from the Employment Situation Summary released this morning by the Bureau of Labor […]
Billion Dollar Unicorns: How Will Nutanix Control Dell?
San Jose-based Nutanix (Nasdaq: NTNX) was set up to deliver invisible infrastructure for enterprise computing. Its proprietary software-driven Xtreme Computing Platform converges compute, virtualization, and storage into a single solution to provide a simpler solution to the datacenter. The company was a pioneer in the development of a compute and storage infrastructure that could implement enterprise-class virtualization […]
Bank Stocks Lead Gold Stocks Higher
As the world transitions from deflation to inflation, investors need to engage in serious sector rotation or they risk being left behind. Income growth in China/India, US government tax cuts, central bank rate hikes, and quantitative tightening are the main fundamental forces of this transition. The paint is barely dry on Trump’s first tranche of tax […]
Near Record Small Business Optimism
Today the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) reported small businesses are showing unprecedented optimism. The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index was reported at 107.6, the second highest reading in the 45-year history of the Index. The highest reading recorded was 108.0 in 1983. According to NFIB’s President and CEO, Juanita Duggan, “When small business owners […]
AMD Drops After Security Vulnerabilities Reported By CTS Labs
Shares of AMD (AMD) have weakened in early trading after CTS Labs, a cyber-security research firm and consultancy, released a report that it said details “multiple critical security vulnerabilities and manufacturer backdoors” in AMD’s latest processors. WHAT’S NEW: Earlier this morning, CTS Labs announced that it has produced a white paper detailing multiple critical security […]
March Madness For Investors
Outcome versus Process Strategies It is that time of year when the markets play second fiddle to debates about which twelve seed could be this year’s Cinderella in the NCAA basketball tournament. For college basketball fans, this particular time of year has been dubbed March Madness. The widespread popularity of the NCAA tournament is not […]
FitBit: New Products Could Boost The Stock
You may remember when we last covered FitBit (FIT), that we discussed why the stock was getting decimated. We talked about the product cycle and how the outlook was poor. Well, we have just learned that FitBit is now rolling out two new products, a light smartwatch and its first wearable for children. These new […]
