Category Archive: Finance

Breakfast At Tiffany’s: Here’s What To Expect From Quarterly Earnings

Breakfast At Tiffany’s: Here’s What To Expect From Quarterly Earnings

Photo Credit: jessicalsmyers Tiffany & Co. (TIF) Consumer Discretionary – Specialty Retail | Reports March 18, Before Market Opens Key Takeaways The Estimize community is looking for EPS of $1.40 on $1.21 billion in revenue, right in line with the Street on the top and bottom line On the heels of its fourth quarter earnings, Tiffany & […]
LPL Financial Reports Monthly Activity For February 2016

LPL Financial Reports Monthly Activity For February 2016

SAN DIEGO, March 17, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Leading retail investment advisory firm and independent broker/dealer LPL Financial LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:LPLA), today released its monthly activity report for February 2016. Total brokerage and advisory assets served at the end of February were $460 billion, a 0.2 percent […]
Adobe Systems Incorporated Surges After Topping Earnings Estimates

Adobe Systems Incorporated Surges After Topping Earnings Estimates

Adobe Systems (ADBE) released the earnings results from its first fiscal quarter after closing bell tonight, posting adjusted earnings of 66 cents per share and revenue of $1.38 billion, against the consensus estimates of 61 cents per share in earnings and $1.34 billion in sales. GAAP earnings were 50 cents per share. The company’s stock […]
Is This The Debt Jubilee?

Is This The Debt Jubilee?

Not so long ago the financial world viewed certain numbers as limits beyond which lay trouble. Interest rates near zero, for instance, were long thought to risk destabilizing the banking system. And government fiscal deficits above 3% were considered so dangerous that exceeding this level was prohibited by the Maastricht treaty that all euorzone members […]
The Massive Market Meltup

The Massive Market Meltup

Reviewing the incredible rally over the past 5 weeks and what it means for the market going forward. I also provide some of my best stocks to be watching at this moment in time. (Video length 00:18:14)
SP 500 And NDX Futures Daily Charts – Stock Option Expiry For March Tomorrow

SP 500 And NDX Futures Daily Charts – Stock Option Expiry For March Tomorrow

Stocks were getting jammed higher in fairly light trading today, led by the SP futures more than anything else. Some might consider this some preliminary action to the March stock option expiration tomorrow. Then again, perhaps it is just more animal spirits, brewed by those moonshiners at the Fed. Have a pleasant evening.
Your Money In The Bank Will Be Gone

Your Money In The Bank Will Be Gone

For anyone who has money in the bank today, it is virtually guaranteed that in the next 5-7 years either the bank will be gone or the money will be worthless, or probably both. Governments and Central Banks are now supreme experts in the total destruction of your money. They are constantly adding new methods […]
5 Stocks To Watch Post-Fed Rate Announcement

5 Stocks To Watch Post-Fed Rate Announcement

Investors breathed a sigh of relief after the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged at the end of its two-day policy meeting. Additionally, it indicated that only two rate hikes were likely during the course of this year. During the press conference that followed, Fed Chair Janet Yellen said the central bank was weighing contradictory […]
Amazon Dips As Apple Said To Shift Some Cloud Spend To Google

Amazon Dips As Apple Said To Shift Some Cloud Spend To Google

Amazon (AMZN) is trading lower Thursday following multiple reports that it has lost some of Apple’s (AAPL) business for its AWS cloud service. Though the iPhone giant is not said to have fully abandoned Amazon’s platform, it has reportedly switched a sizable portion of its spending to Google (GOOG, GOOGL). Research firm Pacific Crest argues […]
Fractal Analysis Shows Coming ’70s-Style Gold Stocks Rally From Even Cheaper Levels

Fractal Analysis Shows Coming ’70s-Style Gold Stocks Rally From Even Cheaper Levels

In terms of the gold price, gold stocks are currently at better value than at the beginning of the bull market in 2001. In 2001, at the bottom of the gold bull market, the XAU to Gold ratio was around 0.2 compared to 0.05 today. In other words, gold stocks are cheaper than they were […]