Category Archive: Finance
AMD Downgraded To Underweight From Equal Weight At Barclays
Barclays analyst Blayne Curtis downgraded AMD (AMD) to Underweight with an unchanged price target of $9. The chipmaker closed yesterday down 12c to $13.80. The analyst is “unconvinced” that AMD products will gain enough traction to support the current valuation. He also has difficulty “getting anywhere near” the company’s long-term earnings per share target of […]
Oil Cracks
Oil prices are trying to recover on a weak dollar after selling off yesterday on the August oil future contract expiration. Also on a prediction by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) that US oil production would rise by 113,000 barrels a day to 5.585 million barrels a day in August from July, even as they […]
Morning Call For Tuesday, July 18
OVERNIGHT MARKETS AND NEWS Sep E-mini S&Ps (ESU17 -0.04%) this morning are down -0.03% after the U.S. Republican health care reform plan failed to secure enough votes to pass in the Senate, which reduces the prospects that the Trump administration will be able to pass any of its economic agenda. Also, weakness in European stocks is undercutting U.S. […]
USD Sell-off Extends – How Far Will It Go?
Republicans are likely to settle for repealing Obamacare but without any replacement. The imminent failure of Trumpcare comes on fertile ground: from another political issue related to Trump Junior, through weak US data and the more-cautious central bank. The move that began in the Asian session is extended in the European session. Here are some […]
Goldman FICC Revenue Plunges 40%, Worst Since 2015, Blames “Low Client Activity”
While Goldman’s (GS) overall results reported moments were generally solid, with the bank reporting Q2 revenue of $7.89 billion (exp. $7.52 billion) and net earnings of $1.83 billion, or EPS of $3.95, above the $3.39 expected, compared with $3.72 for Q2 of 2016 and $5.15 in Q1 2017, there was just one number everyone was […]
Johnson & Johnson Reports Mixed Second Quarter, Revenues Shy Of Expectations
(Video length 00:01:14) CNBC’s Meg Tirrell report Johnson & Johnson kicks off health-care earnings with an EPS beat of $1.83 adj on revenues of $18.839 billion.
US Q2 GDP Growth Outlook Has Been Trimmed In Recent Weeks
Estimates for next week’s “advance” report on GDP growth for the second quarter continue to point to a rebound after Q1’s sluggish pace, but the outlook has been revised down in recent weeks. The Wall Street Journal’s latest survey data, for instance, is projecting a 2.7% advance for Q2 (real seasonally adjusted annual rate), based on this […]
WTI Crude Oil And Natural Gas Forecast – Tuesday, July 18
WTI Crude Oil The WTI Crude Oil market rallied at the beginning of the session on Monday, but found the area near the $47 level to be far too resistive. Because of this, we pulled back to the $46 level, and I think that the market will probably go down to the $45 level which […]
BofA Beats Despite 14% Slump In FICC Revenue; Interest Income Unexpectedly Declines
Echoing the trend set by JPM and Wells Fargo last Friday, moments ago Bank of America (BAC) reported revenue and earnings that modestly beat expectations, with Q2 revenue of $22.8bn, above the $21.8bn expected, generating net income of $5.3 billion up 10% Y/Y, and EPS of $0.46, above the $0.43 estimate, and 12% higher than […]
E Winnie And Vanity
Over the weekend I had planned today to comment on the Chinese ban on mention of Winnie the Pooh, and on Weibo. This is because of an unflattering cartoon four years ago which compared the pudgy Chinese leader Xi Jinping with tall, slim Barrack Obama calling them Winnie and Tigger. Then in 2014 a cartoon […]
