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Markets Inch Higher As Semiconductors Make All The Running
Bulls came into the week with a small edge, but it was left to Semiconductors to push beyond its ‘bull flag’ and July swing high resistance. Gains in the Semiconductor index coincided with a new MACD trigger ‘buy’ and an acceleration in relative performance to the Nasdaq 100. The Dow Industrial (INDU) pushed above last […]
Oracle Q2 Earnings: ‘Not Immune To Macro Backdrop’
Image Source: Unsplash Oracle Corp (NYSE: ORCL) tanked about 9.0% in extended hours even though it reported better-than-expected per-share earnings for its second financial quarter. Why is Oracle stock down in after-hours? The stock is being punished primarily because the quarterly revenue came in shy of Street estimates.Oracle said its revenue from cloud and on-premise licenses, cloud services […]
Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – CPI And FOMC And Stock Option Expiration
Stocks managed to extend their gains.Gold and silver lost a little more ground.VIX is docile.The Dollar was nominally unchanged.This is a big week for events.Tomorrow we will see the latest CPI data. On Wednesday there will be an FOMC rate decision. Expectations are for no action but maybe some notable words.And on Friday we will have the […]
Macy’s Parade Float
Storied retailer Macy’s (M), which has been public for decades, is apparently going to get taken over at a steep premium. This chips away at the remaining inventory of stocks that even exist. Indeed, the number of public companies out there is about one-third what it was when I started trading. Being public has simply become not-that-great in recent years. The bump […]
Is The Next ‘Pain Trade’ Domino About To Fall?
Image Source: Pexels As the S&P 500 pushes to another new 52-week high, is the FOMC announcement setting up for the next pain trade? The “pain trade” when a widely-followed strategy or industry makes a sudden turn against expectations. An example, was the short U.S. Treasury rally. It was a “pain trade” for bond bears. If […]
Market Talk – Monday, Dec. 11
ASIA:Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded the outlook for eight Chinese banks, including major institutions like Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, Bank of China, and China Construction Bank Corporation. This decision followed a similar downgrade of China’s government credit ratings. Additionally, Moody’s lowered Hong Kong’s outlook to negative due to strong […]
Stocks Start Busy Week Off On A High Note
Stocks rose across the board today, as Wall Street extended last week’s gains. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) jumped triple digits for the second session in a row, while the S&P 500 (SPX) and Nasdaq Composite (IXIC) secured their third-straight win. Investors are awaiting tomorrow’s highly anticipated consumer price index (CPI) reading for November, especially ahead […]
The Mortgage Market Is Contributing To The Decline Of The Canadian Economy
Image source: Pixabay In its most recent policy statement, the Bank of Canada acknowledged that it was concerned with the consequences in 2024 when many Canadians have to contend with higher mortgage rates. A TD Canada report identified that: “High household debt is the biggest vulnerability of the Canadian economy. As more homeowners reset their mortgages […]
Three REIT Stocks To Consider Holding In 2024
Image courtesy of 123rf.com When the Federal Reserve began its interest rate hiking cycle in March 2022, the real estate investment trust (REIT) sector took a dive. Between 1972 and 2022, US-based REITs delivered a respectable average annual return of 11.26%.As such, REITs are often picked for steady passive income.This completely inverted with the hiking cycle, as the […]
Year-Ahead Inflation Expectations Tumble To Lowest Since April 2021 In Latest NY Fed Survey
After two months of late summer increases in the 1-Year inflation expectation as tracked by the NY Fed’s monthly consumer survey, November saw the second consecutive decline in this series which traditionally is also a proxy for the price of oil, and which last month dropped to the lowest since April 2021. The drop in 1-year inflation expectations […]
