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U.S. Consumer Bargain Hunting Continues Into Cyber Monday As Average Discounts Rise
Image Source: Unsplash Historically, Cyber Monday falls on the Monday after the Black Friday weekend. Cyber Monday discounts tend to be an extension of Black Friday deals for shoppers returning to the office after a holiday weekend, eyeing merchandise online. Like Black Friday this year, Cyber Monday deals are starting earlier in the hopes that shoppers […]
Is The Great American Dream Still Alive?
A Wall Street Journal poll has some interesting questions and answers about what people think about the economy and whether hard work is rewarded.Please consider the WSJ/NORC Poll October 2023 conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago.Only 36% still believe in the American Dream.Strength of the US EconomyOnly 2 percent of respondents believe the economy is […]
Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – Comex Precious Metals Futures Option Expiration On Monday
There will be a Comex precious metals futures option expiration on Monday the 27th.What else can one do in the midst of such cynical and profound corruption? War is war; greed is greed; hate is hate; murder is murder.And, as always, there will be consequences.Have a pleasant weekend. More By This Author:Stocks And Precious Metals Charts […]
Three Wide Moat Stocks Set Up For A 2024 Uptick
Image courtesy of 123rf.com As investors move into 2024, a new macro landscape is approaching. In Q3 2023, credit card delinquencies rose above the pre-lockdown Q4’19 level, now at 2.98%. Zoomed out, this is the fastest pace in nearly 30 years, notwithstanding the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) period between 2007 and 2009.Tellingly, debt delinquencies are seeing the […]
Markets In The Black With The Economy In The Red?
Image Source: Pexels – vol has been crushed, possibly too far… – one last hurrah in bonds? – does anything but the Magnificent 7 matter? – will markets hold it together till year-end?SPX Expected Move — – last week – 48.53 (3 1/2-day expected move) – next week – 46.29 (5-day expected move)Video Length: 00:24:21More By This […]
Wall Street Logs 4th Consecutive Weekly Win
Wall Street was mixed Friday, but all three major benchmarks managed to close the holiday-shortened week with their fourth-straight weekly win. The Dow escaped today’s sour sentiment, adding 117 points, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended flat.According to the latest survey from the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII), individual investor bullishness rose for a third […]
Flash PMIs Mixed
Predicting the direction of the US or global economy has always been a humbling profession, but doing it in the post-Covid economy where monetary and fiscal activity has gone into ‘Ludicrous’ mode only makes an impossible job even harder. The latest releases of global flash PMI readings for November from S&P Global only add to […]
Cyber Week Spending Set To Hit New Highs In 2023
Despite the fact that Black Friday and Cyber Monday discounts are spread out more and more across the weeks leading up to and following Thanksgiving, both days are expected to see record spending levels once again this year.Statista’s Felix Richter reports that, according to estimates from Adobe Analytics, Cyber Monday will remain the biggest day of the holiday shopping […]
3 Real Estate Funds To Buy On Surging Building Permit
Image Source: Unsplash According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the number of building permits in October reached a revised rate of 1,487,000 units. This represents a 1.1% increase from September’s figure of 1,471,000 permits. In addition, housing starts for October totaled 1,372,000 units, showing a […]
Gold, A Seasonal Rally And The Future Of Money
Image Source: Unsplash Happy Thanksgiving to all of our readers. For anyone celebrating we hope you have a wonderful day and we thank you for your support this past year. Big news this week – gold hit $2,030 in intra-day trading on Tue, it didn’t hang on but it did close the day with a hefty $20 […]
