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The BLS Confirms US Is Now Losing Jobs In Net Business Creation
Image Source: PexelsThe BLS BED report provides further confirmation the BLS Birth/Death jobs model is seriously screwed up.Data from BLS, chart by MishPlease consider the very lagging BLS Business Employment Dynamics report for the second quarter of 2022.The BED report analyzes net job creation from new business and firms going out of business. Key BED Statistics From March […]
US Markets Slide As Trump’s Tariffs Rattle Investors; S&P 500, Dow, Nasdaq Fall
Image Source: Unsplash The S&P 500 slipped 0.6%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 345 points. The market turned lower as White House announced Trump’s 25% tariffs would be made public this weekend. Energy stocks also slumped, with Chevron and Exxon Mobil declining 4% and 3%, respectively. Wall Street’s early gains faded on Friday after the […]
Business Cycle Indicators – Where’s That Recession?
Here are key indicators followed by the NBER’s Business Cycle Dating Committee, plus monthly GDP. Seven days ago , DiMartino Booth at 13:50, says it started in Spring/Summer 2024. Heritage’s EJ Antoni says it started in August. Data for most series through December. Figure 1: Nonfarm Payroll (NFP) employment from CES (blue), implied NFP from preliminary benchmark (bold […]
Mag 7 Earnings And DeepSeek: What Should Investors Know?
Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash DeekSeek appears to have put a big dent in what everyone believed was a source of competitive advantage in the AI race for Tech leaders like Microsoft (MSFT – Free Report) , Alphabet (GOOGL – Free Report) , Amazon (AMZN – Free Report) , and others. And if we go by how Microsoft and Meta described the evolving […]
The Dogs Of The Dow 2025
The Dogs of the Dow is an investing strategy well-known to retail and institutional investors. The ten stocks from the Dow 30 that have the highest yield on the last day of the previous year comprise the Dogs of the Dow for the following year. Before diving into the list of the Dogs of the […]
21Shares files for Polkadot ETF, marking the second DOT-focused fund filing this week
Key Takeaways 21Shares has filed for a Polkadot ETF with the SEC, aiming to list shares tracking DOT’s price on the Cboe BZX Exchange. This marks the second Polkadot ETF filing this week, following Tuttle Capital’s leveraged 2x DOT ETF proposal. Share this article 21Shares has submitted an S-1 registration to the Securities and Exchange […]
S&P 500 Earnings Dashboard 24Q4 – Friday, Jan. 31
Image Source: Pexels S&P 500 Aggregate Estimates and Revisions 24Q4 Y/Y earnings are expected to be 11.5%. Excluding the energy sector, the Y/Y earnings estimate is 14.8%. Of the 178 companies in the S&P 500 that have reported earnings to date for 24Q4, 75.3% reported above analyst expectations. This compares to a long-term average of 67%. The 24Q4 Y/Y blended revenue growth estimate is 4.6%. If the energy sector is […]
Markets Are Holding Up… But Mega-Caps Are Cracking
Image Source: Pexels You know how it goes – markets get shaky but one or more trillion-dollar mega-caps drag ‘em kicking and screaming higher.We heard that story who-knows-how-many times in 2024. Usually NVDA was the workhorse; sometimes it was TSLA or AAPL.But this is 2025. This is the market’s “new day”.And right now it’s the mega-caps […]
DeepSeek And DARP Update
Image Source: Pexels Review of developments this week in market and financial news including DeepSeek Chinese AI announcement.Video Length: 00:18:53More By This Author:Zero Days To Expiration Options Abandon The 60/40 Stocks & Bonds Record Concentration Risk In Stocks
Bitcoin In 2025: A Year That Could Redefine Crypto’s Role
Image Source: Unsplash Bitcoin, the world’s first and largest cryptocurrency, has evolved dramatically since its inception in 2008–09. Created by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin was initially a niche experiment—10,000 bitcoins were famously used in 2010 to purchase two pizzas.1 This early anecdote now stands as a stark reminder of Bitcoin’s extraordinary growth, which has made it […]
