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2024 Q1 Earnings Loom: What Can Investors Expect?

2024 Q1 Earnings Loom: What Can Investors Expect?

Image Source: Unsplash The market’s reaction to quarterly results from Adobe (ADBE – Free Report) and Oracle (ORCL – Free Report) can be seen as an early sign of what to expect as other companies come out with their March-quarter reporting cycle.Investors loved the Oracle report, seeing the results and guidance reflective of an improving demand environment. Market participants had […]
Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – Stocks Dropped

Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – Stocks Dropped

Stocks dropped as the grudging realization that the Fed is most likely to only cut rates a few times this year, and later than expected, finally managed to sink in.But don’t think that they won’t rally stocks again at some later date, based on the same old lies.They just pretend to be sincere.Gold and silver […]
Market Talk – Friday, March 15

Market Talk – Friday, March 15

ASIA:The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: NIKKEI 225 decreased 99.74 points or -0.26% to 38,707.64 Shanghai increased 16.40 points or 0.54% to 3,054.64 Hang Seng decreased 240.77 points or -1.42% to 16,720.89 ASX 200 decreased 43.30 points or -0.56% to 7,670.30 Kospi decreased 51.92 points or -1.91% to 2,666.84 SENSEX decreased […]
Inflation Is Still Hot And The Fed Isn’t Willing To Tame It

Inflation Is Still Hot And The Fed Isn’t Willing To Tame It

Image Source: Pixabay As inflation data comes in hotter than expected, markets are reassessing the outlook for rate cuts. This week’s Consumer Price Index report showed the CPI rising 0.4% in February. That was the largest increase since last September. Higher gas prices and housing costs were major contributors. On an annual basis, the CPI is now rising […]
The Best Contrarian Indicator

The Best Contrarian Indicator

Image Source: Pexels Government investments rarely work out the way they are supposed to. From Solyndra to California’s High Speed Rail project to the Big Dig to the UK government selling off gold at the lows at the turn of the century, governments just aren’t very good at the investment thing. The UK gold-selling incident is […]
Market Correlation Is Causation For Concern

Market Correlation Is Causation For Concern

Image Source: Pexels “The correlation between the Big Tech stocks and the rest of the S&P 500 is low, compared to history”, says a recently published Barclays note. I kind of agree.The big guys are right once in a while. But the note goes on to say that Big Tech/S&P 500 correlation actually spikes when markets […]
What’s Behind The Strength In Japan’s Stock Market?

What’s Behind The Strength In Japan’s Stock Market?

Video Length: 00:04:52 On the latest edition of Market Week in Review, Director and Investment Strategist Alexander Cousley and Product Operations Analyst McKenna Painter discussed the latest U.S. inflation and retail sales reports. They also chatted about the rally in the Japanese equity market and unpacked the latest headlines from China. U.S. consumer prices rise […]
Market Pessimism Ushers Daily, Weekly Losses For Stocks

Market Pessimism Ushers Daily, Weekly Losses For Stocks

Sentiment was bearish on Friday, with the Dow and Nasdaq each shedding triple digits as the S&P 500 saw a third-straight daily drop. All three indexes settled lower for the week after hotter-than-expected inflation data ahead of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision put tech stocks under pressure and dashed hopes of a cut. The Cboe Volatility […]
Industrial Production Takes A Huge Revised Dive, The Fed Blames The Weather

Industrial Production Takes A Huge Revised Dive, The Fed Blames The Weather

Industrial Production data from the Fed, chart by Mish. The Fed blames the weather for weakness in Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization in 2024. Industrial production edged up 0.1 percent in February after declining 0.5 percent in January. In February, the output of manufacturing rose 0.8 percent and the index for mining climbed 2.2 percent. Both gains […]
Profiting In Bull Or Bear Markets – The State Of The Markets

Profiting In Bull Or Bear Markets – The State Of The Markets

Image source: Pixabay How the business cycle drives stocks, interest rates, commodities, bonds, bitcoin, gold, and foreign markets.Video Length: 00:42:21More By This Author:Profiting In Bull Or Bear Markets; Selecting Stocks Using Relative Strength The Business Cycle – Profiting In Bull Or Bear Markets The Business Cycle – The Bullish Way To Read The Yield Curve