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The Big Four Economic Indicators: August Real Retail Sales
Official recession calls are the responsibility of the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee, which is understandably vague about the specific indicators on which they base their decisions. This committee statement is about as close as they get to identifying their method. There is, however, a general belief that there are four big indicators that the committee weighs […]
4 Top-Ranked Stocks To Cash In On High Consumer Sentiment
Consumers’ optimistic assessment of future economic growth and job market conditions helped September’s preliminary consumer sentiment reach its second-strongest level since 2004. Lower inflation expectations coupled with confidence in the country’s growing economy drove the sentiment higher, as was reflected across major socioeconomic factions. Consumer optimism prevailed despite worsening living standards in the country and […]
E Exxon Mobil Has Reached An Inflection Point
Exxon Mobil (XOM) has dramatically underperformed the market and its peers in the last two years. During this period, it has lost 1% whereas S&P, Chevron (CVX) and BP (BP) have rallied 34%, 18% and 27%, respectively. As a result, Exxon Mobil has greatly disappointed most of its shareholders. However, investors should realize that the […]
E Stock Analysis: Heico Corporation
Heico (HEI) is an aerospace company that is bringing in the big bucks.Let’s take a closer look at those great numbers. Video Length: 00:04:15
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Avocado Toast
For about ten bucks a month, Netflix will give you all the movies you can watch, plus tons of TV show series and other programs, such as one-off science documentaries. They don’t offer all movies, merely more than you can watch. Oh, and there are no commercials. They don’t just give you old BBC reruns, […]
By The Time The Fed Hits Its Goals, The Markets Will Be Crashing
The Powell Fed has set one goal and one goal only for its policy… Hitting the “neutral rate of interest.” The neutral rate of interest is when the Fed has rates equal to the pace of inflation. While this is technically what the Fed is SUPPOSED to be doing, NO Fed (or any other Central Bank for that matter) has […]
Divergence Between Draghi’s Outlook And Actual Data
If both the euro’s CPI and PMI were to surprise to the downside, short EUR/USD? President Draghi reaffirms ‘balanced’ outlook despite cutting growth forecast The European Central Bank (ECB) kept its benchmark interest rates unchanged last Thursday which was widely expected. More importantly, investors are not expecting to see a rate hike anytime soon as […]
Empire State Manufacturing Survey: Activity Continues To Grow In September
This morning we got the latest Empire State Manufacturing Survey. The diffusion index for General Business Conditions at 19.0 was a decrease of 6.6 from the previous month’s 25.6. The Investing.com forecast was for a reading of 23.2. The Empire State Manufacturing Index rates the relative level of general business conditions in New York state. A level above […]
Sensex Slumps Over 500 Points; Consumer Durables And Banking Stocks Witness Selling
After opening the day on a negative note, share markets in India continued their downtrend throughout the day and ended the day in the red. All sectoral indices traded in the red, with stocks in the consumer durables sector, banking sector and FMCG sector leading the losses. At the closing bell, the BSE Sensex stood lower by 505 points (down 1.3%) and the NSE […]
Post-Lehman: $250 Trillion In Debt And Counting
In many ways, all the talk about global central banks beginning a “great unwind” of their extraordinary monetary stimulus is positively quaint. After all, how can officials from the Federal Reserve to the Bank of Japan even pretend to know how to reverse what they’ve done over the past decade? Video Length: 00:11:14
