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Walmart Posts Mixed Quarterly Results, But Raises Full-Year Guidance
CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box’ team discusses Walmart’s quarterly earnings. CNBC’s Courtney Reagan joins with comments from Walmart’s chief financial officer.
Commodities Continue To Dominate Deep-Value ETF Ranking
The slide in global markets in recent weeks has cut prices near and far, but the steepest declines for the trailing five-year return – a proxy for the value factor – are still linked with the dive in commodities. That was true for the deep-value list in October and the profile is intact in today’s update, which […]
Have We Reached The EM Inflection Point?
Following a long wait, 2017 was the year that being a globally diversified investor finally seemed to pay off. The MSCI ACWI ex USA Index beat the S&P 500 by more than 500 basis points (bps), outperforming for the first time since 2012. Many wondered if the baton was finally being passed to the international markets—after a decade of lagging […]
Morning Call For Thursday, Nov. 15
Overnight Markets And News Dec E-mini S&Ps (ESZ18 +0.35%) this morning are up +0.38% on optimism the U.S.-China trade conflict will soon be resolved after a report said that China has outlined a series of potential trade concessions to the U.S. Two people familiar with the report said the Chinese offer was constructive ahead of the […]
When Apple Is Breaking Down The Real POS Stocks Simply Crash
The stock market is gapping up this morning, but it has gapped up several times this week and just faded. I believe we are in a serious corrective phase in the markets – and that is why the S&P 500 is trading below its 200-day moving average. This is also why I did not think […]
Sensex Ends 118 Points Higher; Realty And Banking Stocks Witness Buying
Indian share markets continued to trade on a positive note during closing hours of trade and ended the day marginally higher. Gains were largely seen in the realty sector, consumer durables sector, and banking sector, while telecom stocks witnessed selling pressure. At the closing bell, the BSE Sensex stood higher by 118 points (up 0.3%) and the NSE Nifty closed higher by 40 points (up […]
Fed Chairman Powell Expressed Confidence In The US Economy
With unemployment likely to continue at record low levels, growth continuing, and inflation near the central bank’s 2% target, Long USD/JPY? During a question-and-answer session on Wednesday in Dallas, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said the US economy is strong but could face potential headwinds, particularly from abroad. Powell enumerated a set of concerns that have […]
Digital Money And Payments
New technologies in the financial sector are opening the door for potential disruptions: cryptocurrencies, M-Pesa, WeChat,… Many of them are seen as alternatives to either traditional currencies issued by central banks or to the intermediation role played by commercial banks. In this discussions, there is often the assumption that “money” and “payments” are features that […]
President Trump’s Impact On Oil Prices
Is President Trump responsible for falling oil prices? Partially, but not for the reasons he thinks. Oil prices are now down over 20% from recent highs, and President Trump knows exactly where the credit for that belongs. “If you look at oil prices they’ve come down very substantially over the last couple of months,” President […]
USD/CAD Daily Analysis – Thursday, Nov. 15
USD/CAD stays a bullish price channel on the 4-hour chart and remains in the uptrend from 1.2782. As long as the price is in the channel, the upside movement could be expected to continue and next target would be at 1.3300 area. Near term support is at 1.3170, below this level could bring the price […]
