After Mixed Earnings, Is Nike Stock A Buy, Hold, Or Sell?
Nike (NKE – Analyst Report) shares are down about 4.3% since it reported mixed earnings on March 22. The premier athletic brand posted earnings of $0.55 per share, beating our EPS consensus of $0.48. However, the company missed on our revenues consensus of $8.2 billion, posting sales of just $8.03 billion for the quarter. Results like these […]
Gold Price Slips On Solid Us Data, Oil Inventory At Record High
Oil prices fell below $38 in Asian trade on Thursday, hitting the lowest level in more than two weeksamid recurring worries of global oversupply. U.S. Department of Energy reported that crude inventories rose to a record high on the seventh week. Crude stockpiles rose by 2.3 million barrels to 534.8 million barrels in the week to March 25. This weekly increase […]
EUR/USD Forex Signal – March 31, 2016
EUR/USD Signal Update Yesterday’s signals produced a losing short trade off the bearish engulfing candle rejecting the resistance level at 1.1338. The level ultimately held however, as can be seen on the H4 chart shown below. Today’s EUR/USD Signals Risk 0.75% Trades must be taken before 5pm London time today only. Long Trade 1 Long entry […]
To Hedge For Brexit, Sell EUR/USD Not GBP/USD
Following the Brussels bombing, the pound weakened alongside the euro. This was due to the growing fear of a “Brexit”. Nevertheless, a Brexit could also hurt the euro. Here is the explanation from Bank of America Merrill Lynch: Here is their view, courtesy of eFXnews: We argue that the EUR is underpricing the potential economic disruption related […]
Gold Faces Resistance At $1243
Gold prices dropped $16.16 an ounce yesterday, giving back most of the gains made in the previous session, as expectations that U.S. interest rates will stay low led investors into riskier assets. The XAU/USD pair initially bounced off the support around the $1235 level but encountered significant amount of resistance at $1243 once again. The […]
Robert Kiyosaki And Harry Dent Warn That Financial Crash Is Imminent
Financial experts Robert Kiyosaki and Harry Dent are both warning that the next major economic crash is in our very near future. Dent is projecting that the Dow will fall to “5,500 to 6,000 by late 2017″, and Kiyosaki actually originally projected that a great crash was coming in 2016 all the way back in […]
Dot Plot Convergence As Fed Outsources Policy To Financial Markets
A “dot plot” of Fed-expected rate hikes vs. market-expected rate hikes shows convergence towards the market’s view. In December, Fed Chair Janet Yellen expected four rate hikes this year. So did various Fed governors. On March 21, Atlanta Fed president Dennis Lockhart went out on a limb by proposing a hike in April. The market […]
Daily Market Analysis – March 31, 2016
Video Length: 00:01:28 During the day on Thursday, we will have GDP numbers coming out of Great Britain, and that of course will be a very important to the British pound and the FTSE, but at this point in time we think that most of the markets will simply be consolidative, and mainly because the […]
Yellen-Driven Short-Squeeze Sends Bonds To Best Quarter In 4 Years
After The Fed jawboned the world into the largest aggregate net short position in Treasuries in Q4 since 2010, its rapid realization that all is not well in the real world – and subsequent talking (and walking) back of rate-hike expectations – has sparked the biggest short-squeeze in 6 years and sent Treasuries up by the most […]
Oil Fails To Recover On Lower Inventory Build
US Crude Oil inventories rise at a slower pace of 2.29 million barrels for the week ending March 25th, 2016 Summary: After rallying to a 4-month high, WTI Crude Oil prices retreat steadily Saudi Arabia – Kuwait talk on re-opening Khafji Oilfield, expected to add 300k barrels extra US Oil inventories for week ending March […]
