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Bank Of Canada Leaves Interest Rates Unchanged. When Could It Begin Lowering Borrowing Costs?

Bank Of Canada Leaves Interest Rates Unchanged. When Could It Begin Lowering Borrowing Costs?

Video Length: 00:06:39 On the latest edition of Market Week in Review, Investment Strategist BeiChen Lin and Product Operations Analyst McKenna Painter discussed recent rate decisions from the Bank of Canada and the European Central Bank. They also examined the state of the U.S. labor market and reviewed the highlights of U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) […]
Gold, Geopolitics, And The Role Of Bitcoin

Gold, Geopolitics, And The Role Of Bitcoin

Image Source: Unsplash In this short clip Samantha LaDuc and Craig Shapiro discuss the dynamics of gold as an investment, its role in the global economy, and its implications for international trade and currency systems. They delve into the shift of gold reserves to the East, with countries like China and India establishing a non-dollar commodity […]
Costco Stock: Should You Buy It On The Post-Earnings Dip?

Costco Stock: Should You Buy It On The Post-Earnings Dip?

Image Source: Unsplash Costco Wholesale Corporation (Nasdaq: COST) is in the red this morning after coming in shy of Street estimates for total sales in its fiscal second quarter. Is it worth buying Costco stock today? Still, CFRA Research analyst Arun Sundaram says “it was a pretty good” earnings report.He was particularly pleased with “strong eCommerce sales […]
AskSlim Market Week – Friday, March 8

AskSlim Market Week – Friday, March 8

Image Source: Pixabay In this video, trading pro Steve Miller and his team share unique analysis and commentary on the financial markets.Video Length: 00:43:41More By This Author:AskSlim Market Week – Friday, March 1 AskSlim Market Week – Fri., Feb. 16 AskSlim Market Week – Friday, Feb. 9
The Employment Situation Release And Business Cycle Indicators For February

The Employment Situation Release And Business Cycle Indicators For February

January NFP employment growth surprises on the upside, at +275 vs. +198 thousands consensus. With combined downward revisions in the prior two months totaling 168 thousand, the level of employment is just about consistent with implied consensus. Here’s a picture of key indicators followed by the NBER’s Business Cycle Dating Committee, plus monthly GDP and […]
Three Stocks With The Potential For A Short Squeeze In March

Three Stocks With The Potential For A Short Squeeze In March

Image courtesy of 123rf.com There are company fundamentals and market fundamentals. Based on the latter, many traders changed their financial lives during the GameStop (NYSE: GME) and AMC (NYSE: AMC) short squeeze in late January 2021. Despite having weak fundamentals, these stocks rose rapidly in value.As a consequence of betting against short sellers, who had to […]
Stocks Rip Then Dip, Led Lower By Nvidia

Stocks Rip Then Dip, Led Lower By Nvidia

Image Source: Pixabay Stocks fell on March 8 after an initial surge higher. They are in the process of giving back all of the gains from March 7 and following Nvidia’s lead.Video Length: 00:12:14More By This Author:Stocks Rise On March 7, 2024 As The AI Machine Goes Manic Market Craziness – Nothing Makes Sense Powell Puts […]
Monitoring Turkey: Balanced Economy Still Some Way Off

Monitoring Turkey: Balanced Economy Still Some Way Off

Turkey’s fourth-quarter GDP data showed that private spending has accelerated despite an increasingly restrictive policy stance while leading indicators point to a further acceleration in GDP growth in the first quarter of this year. This implies that there is still a long way to go to rebalance the economy.Photo by Omid Armin on Unsplash Turkey at a glance Given […]
Huge Percentage Of Job Gains Are Related To Taking Care Of Immigrants

Huge Percentage Of Job Gains Are Related To Taking Care Of Immigrants

Data from the BLS, chart by Mish.The surge in government jobs and social assistance jobs is soaring to handle the massive influx of immigrants.Health care jobs are rising for the same reason but also because of demographics. Aging boomers need more assistance.Blistering Start to 2024 Government jobs are 20.63 percent of all job growth in […]
Where To Now?

Where To Now?

Coming into today, NVIDIA (NVDA) was up 17% over the last week and more than 40% above its 50-day moving average. After gapping up another 4% this morning, NVDA is finally experiencing gravity with an intraday drop of nearly 10% as of 1 PM ET. As we’ve been mentioning recently, the type of upside moves […]