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E Stock Analysis: Alibaba Group Holding
Alibaba is the Google of the Chinese markets. Let’s analyze it, and then compare it to Google. Will the devaluation of the Yuan hurt the price of this stock in the U.S. market? In the short term, yes. Video Length: 00:08:12
Trump Tells Aids To Proceed With $200 Billion In Tariffs On China
Despite talks with China, Trump instructs aids to place $200 billion in tariffs on China. Another $267 billion on deck. Sources say Trump Wants $200 Billion in China Tariffs Despite Talks. Trump met with his top trade advisers on Thursday to discuss the China tariffs, including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and U.S. […]
Newell Brands Inc – A Turnaround Opportunity
Newell Brands Inc. (NWL) has been one of the most requested stocks that I’ve been asked to provide an analyze out loud video on. When I first looked at it, I had to wonder why people were so interested in this particular stock. Then I realized that statistically, it looks great. The company’s blended P/E […]
Apple And Amazon $1 Trillion Market Cap: What Is That Telling Us About The Markets
Allison Ostrander, Director of Risk Tolerance and Options Trader Specialist at Simpler Trading is a new guest to the show. I came across her work very recently and like what she had to say about a wide range of markets. In this segment, we discuss the $1 trillion market caps of Apple and Amazon and […]
Massive Deficit Spending Greenlights Waste, Fraud, Profiteering And Dysfunction
America’s problem isn’t a lack of deficit spending/consumption. America’s problems are profoundly structural. The nice thing about free to me money from any source is the recipients don’t have to change anything. Free money is the ultimate free-pass from consequence and adaptation: instead of having to make difficult trade-offs or suffer the consequences of profligacy, the recipients of […]
Trump To Proceed With $200BN More In China Tariffs Despite Talks; Stocks Tumble
So much for the optimism that followed the WSJ report that the Trump administration is willing to offer China an olive branch in trade talks in hopes of avoiding further escalation (and which pushed the S&P back over 2,900). Moments ago Bloomberg reported that President Trump has instructed aides on Thursday to proceed with tariffs on […]
S&P 500 Maintains Solid Trend, Can The DAX And FTSE Follow Higher?
S&P 500 This coming week is a quiet one on the data front, with no ‘high’ impact releases on the schedule. Trade war headlines from time-to-time have looked to take stocks lower (as was the case on Friday when it was reported Trump gave the go-head on $200 bln tariffs on China), but at this […]
Inflation: An X-Ray View Of The Components – Friday, September 14
Here is a table showing the annualized change in Headline and Core CPI, not seasonally adjusted, for each of the past six months. Also included are the eight components of Headline CPI and a separate entry for Energy, which is a collection of sub-indexes in Housing and Transportation. We can make some inferences about how […]
Retail Sales Weaker Than Expected, July Revised Up, Large Y-o-Y Amazon Impact
Retail sales only rose 0.1% in Aug, but July was revised from +0.5% to +0.7%. Amazon impact stands out year-over-year. The U.S. Census Bureau’s Advance Estimates of U.S. Retail and Food Services Sales report for August 2018 shows unexpected weakness as retail sales rose only 0.1% vs the consensus estimate of 0.4% The noticeable standout in this […]
EUR/USD Begins Test Of Key Resistance, USD Bounces From Monthly Lows
NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR CALMS, BUT WILL EURO BULLS, DOLLAR BEARS SHOW THEIR HAND? This week’s economic calendar was rather heavy, particularly Thursday, and this leaves FX markets in a state of limbo as we lead into a quieter calendar for next week. The big question surrounding FX markets at the moment concern two of the […]
