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Urban Outfitters Surpasses Q3 Earnings And Revenue Estimates
Image Source: Unsplash Urban Outfitters (URBN – Free Report) came out with quarterly earnings of $0.88 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.81 per share. This compares to earnings of $0.40 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items.This quarterly report represents an earnings surprise of 8.64%. A quarter ago, it was […]
3 Dividend Champions For Long-Term Income
Image Source: Unsplash Income investors value reliability and consistency, as well as high dividend yields. Some stocks provide a combination of these factors, such as the Dividend Champions — stocks that have raised their payouts for at least 25 years in a row.These companies have proven that they can manage through recessions, while continuing to pay […]
Japan Is Not Doing Well
Yen. Image Source: Pixabay In the period up until 1991, Japan’s economy grew much faster than the US economy. Most economists (myself included) expected Japan to continue to close the gap in per capita GDP. Instead, Japan began losing ground after 1991.Every so often, a revisionist comes along with the argument that if you look at […]
Pessimism Continues To Fall
Image Source: Pexels “Davidson” submits:There is a gradual thawing of the pessimism that has wracked equity prices since the end of 2021. The important economic trends continued to trend higher despite most investors expecting a recession that has not occurred and not likely to occur near term. Retail investors whose information mostly comes from the large […]
Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – Stubborn Pride And Willful Blindness
Stocks were off a bit today, still digesting their recent rally higher.Gold and silver rallied. Gold is flirting with a breakout.There will be a Comex Precious Metals December contract options expiration on Monday the 27th.VIX continues to wallow at the recent lows.NVIDIA (NVDA) beat estimates after the bell, but the stock price was slightly lower […]
Nvidia Reports Blowout Earnings, But Warns Of “Significant” China Slowdown, Guidance Matches Whisper Range
As we wrote in our preview of NVDA’s Q3 earnings, it is safe to say that more were paying attention to today’s earnings report from Nvidia than did to all of the other giga caps or frankly any other company this quarter, thanks to the thunderous, impact Nvidia has had on the broader market in general, […]
Fed Meeting Minutes Halt S&P 500, Nasdaq Rally
The Federal Reserve’s meeting minutes threw a bucket of water on stocks today, with the central bank noting economic policy will need to stay “restrictive” to bring inflation to its 2% target. Investors now expect interest rates to hold steady in December, rather than be cut back. In response, both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq […]
The Future Of Tech Giants: Big Tech’s Regulatory Horizon And Market Control
Image Source: Pixabay In this video, Samantha LaDuc and Craig Shapiro discuss the current trend of large investment firms like BlackRock favoring a concentrated investment in major tech companies, referred to as the ‘Magnificent Seven’. They delve into the structural issues in the market that support this trend, including passive investment flows into large-cap names and […]
CFNAI, WEI, WECI, Etc.
From Chicago Fed today:Figure 1: Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI) (blue), and 3 month moving average (bold green). Source: Chicago Fed via FRED, author’s calculations. The three-month moving average of the CFNAI dropped below 0 (i.e., dropped below trend growth) in October of last year. The notes for the CFNAI indicate “Following a period of economic expansion, […]
