Seven Charts For Bullish Investors To Ignore
Wall Street still exudes widespread optimism that 2017 will provide another year of solid gains for stocks amid stable albeit unspectacular economic growth and only gentle interest rate rises. However, as The FT details, all is not well in reality, and the following seven charts will hearten investors of a more bearish persuasion… After climbing to its highest in […]
Counter Trend Moves Setting Up
Over the last several years one of the most consistent trades has been to get long stocks ahead of an FOMC meeting. Let’s face it, it just makes the Fed’s decision making process a hell of a lot easier if stocks are rising, and at, or near all time highs. With Trump unveiling his tax […]
EUR/USD Levels To Watch After The Favorable First French Round
Market favorite Macron is now leading the real vote as well as the exit polls. As the centrist cements his lead, it is time to look at the bigger picture for the common currency. EUR/USD is already the exit polls. The pair is trading just above 1.09 as trading volume remains thin. It has peaked at 1.0930, […]
Daily Trading Opportunities – Monday, April 24
The Monday session is relatively light as far as economic announcements are concerned, with German Business Climate being the most important number that comes out. Because of this, we believe it will be a relatively stable market with an eye on geopolitical risks more than anything else. Gold Gold markets continue to look bullish, as […]
Latest Data Suggests Even More Downward Revisions To Earnings And GDP
t’s been two weeks since the last edition of our Monday Morning Kickoff, and while the first of those two weeks was rather quiet, by comparison, this past week has been filled with noise. The issue at hand is that noise level is going to swell this week into a near deafening roar as earnings season […]
Risk-On! S&P Futs Jump, Treasurys Dumped With Yen As Markets Cheer Macron
As tipped by the knee-jerk reaction in EUR/USD and EUR/JPY, the “market-friendly” outcome from the first round of the French elections looks to have set the stage for a decidedly risk-on-ish Monday. Here’s a quick look across markets as we head into the overnight session. S&P futs are up ~1%… Treasury futs are down the most […]
The Reality Of VR/AR M&A
Despite Facebook’s blockbuster $3 billion Oculus acquisition in 2014, VR/AR has been too early stage for large scale mergers and acquisitions (M&A) so far. But that’s set to change in the next 12 to 18 months, so let’s look at what could drive M&A deals going forward. Where Digi-Capital’s Augmented/Virtual Reality Report Q1 2017 and deals database tracked $1.5 […]
Visualizing The Evolution Of The American Economy Over The Past 50 Years
The American economy and the industries that power it have experienced fascinating change over the last half century. An interesting way to track that change is by following the largest, most powerful companies in the United States as they make their way up and down the annual Fortune 500 list. Slant Marketing has done just that […]
ETF Watchlist: Week Of April 24
After a couple of relatively quieter weeks, things are going to pick up in a big way. Volatility remains modest but a slew of economic data, earnings reports and events from the political front could make this a more turbulent week than we’ve seen lately. There’s almost too much going on to summarize in one […]
Cloudera Wants To Be The King Of Modern Enterprise Data
Exponential growth in data creates new demands for which traditional data management techniques like relational databases are not satisfactory. The pervasive nature of the internet and the so-called IoT has ensured that the exponential growth of data remains unchecked. visualcapitalist.com The point of processing this type of data is to be able to react – […]
