https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbeKPLFGvcc Collin Rugg from Trending Politics reports, Back in 2017 during an interview on “The View,” former New York City mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg told Americans to “get behind” President Trump because “the public has spoken.” “That’s my country. That’s my kids and grandkids,” Bloomberg said. “You have to make it … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg_ZLvy-OA4 Nicholas Fondacaro from News Busters reports, Well, it may have taken a while, but CNN host Brian Stelter finally admitted that praising lawyer Michael Avenatti (A.K.A creepy porn lawyer) as a “serious” contender for 2020 wasn’t a smart move. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2020/02/16/stelter-was-i-stupid-say-avenatti-was-serious-2020-contender
by cookingboy Over the past few weeks I, along with some others around here or in the investment community in general, are a bit puzzled by the market’s extremely bullish outlook despite the economic impact of nCoV virus turning out to be a lot more severe than initially expected by many. In my original post about the … Read more
US equity market activity by foreign investors, households, mutual funds, and pension funds ended 2019 as net sellers while corporation’s buybacks are estimated to exceed $480 billion – just in the S&P 500 companies. This source of market growth cannot be counted on to prop up the equity markets in the future. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/buybacks-are-the-dominant-source-of-stock-market-demand-and-they-are-fading-fast-goldman-sachs-2019-11-06 As for … Read more
by UnhandledPromise Let’s break it down based on some research I did while the market was closed yesterday: Let’s look at profitability: with a current Operating Margin for Microsoft Corporation [MSFT] sitting at +33.96 and its Gross Margin at +65.81, this company’s Net Margin is now 31.70%. These measurements indicate that Microsoft Corporation [MSFT] is … Read more
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/18/outside-of-the-big-5-tech-companies-earnings-growth-is-zero.html Just five stocks — Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Alphabet — account for the S&P 500′s year-over-year EPS growth, according to Goldman Sachs. “Mega-cap earnings strength contrasts with small-cap earnings weakness,” the firm’s analysts led by David Kostin said. The “FAAMG” basket accounts for 18% of the total S&P 500 value. The last time … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcP4X-kI8vw I cannot believe a state university behaves this way. I left over a decade ago and it was never this charged but changing. Obama presidency made universities different permanently. It was like no one could tell students no anymore. So the craziness just expanded 10 fold. AC
They say that there’s around 73k confirmed with Coronavirus, but this assesment puts estimates at 983,006 Abstract Background: Since the first cluster of cases was identified in Wuhan City, China, in December, 2019, 2019-nCoV has rapidly spread across China as well as caused multiple introductions in 25 countries as of February, 2020. Despite the … Read more
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By Irina Slav China has opened for applications for tariff exemptions on a number of U.S. products and commodities including crude oil and liquefied natural gas, Reuters reported today. Tariffs were blamed for the slump in U.S. oil and LNG exports to China, which is one of the biggest importers for both commodities. They also interfered with … Read more
by Shaun Richards So far in 2020, the yield on the 10-year Treasury has averaged an anemic 0.01 percent when adjusted for inflation. Since the end of January, it’s actually dipped below 0 percent, trading as low as negative 0.14 percent on January 31. What this means is that investors are guaranteed to lose money … Read more
Via Marketwatch Barraged by hundreds of sex-abuse lawsuits, the Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday in hopes of working out a potentially mammoth victim compensation plan that will allow the hallowed, 110-year-old organization to carry on. The Chapter 11 filing in federal bankruptcy court in Wilmington, Delaware, sets in motion what could … Read more
We’ve all watched as WikiLeaks aired the world’s dirty laundry, by leaking evidence of corruptions and crimes. The US came together with the EU to retaliate against Julian Assanage for pioneering this WikiLeaks whistleblower websystem. Now at a critical time in the questionable legal proceedings against Assange, which already include accusations of torture, Twitter has … Read more
Not in Wuhan but other major cities Guangzhou and Beijing. Break open the kids’ piggy banks! Bars in major Chinese cities are delivering their happy hour drinks deals to customers’ places of residence as a large number of people remain stuck indoors because of the outbreak of the new coronavirus. But with people staying at … Read more
While Gov. J.B. Pritzker has spent the past two years campaigning for a progressive income tax that he claims will only hit the rich, the plan also comes with a rare marriage penalty that subjects joint filers to higher income tax rates than single people. The marriage penalty would average more than $2,500 for those … Read more
Baltic Exchange Dry Index Forecast Chart Ready to receive a wake up slap in the face ? First quarter will be a disaster – there are no car sales happening in #China 🇨🇳 right now. Europe is weak as well: European car sales -7.4%– France 🇫🇷 : -13.4%– Germany 🇩🇪 : -7.3%– Spain 🇪🇸 … Read more
Authored by Sven Henrich via NorthmanTrader.com, We’re all frogs getting our perception of reality boiled in the pot of price perversion central banks have unleashed on the world. A tragicomedy of epic proportions continues to unfold in front of our own eyes. On Friday global markets again closed at record highs and this week everybody is … Read more
by howmuch The U.S. has run a trade deficit since the 1970s. That means that as a whole, for the past five decades the U.S. has imported more goods from other countries than it has exported to other countries. However, at a more granular level, the U.S. has a trade surplus with some trading partners and a … Read more
Interesting comments from the CIO of major investment firm not known as a permabear: “We are either moving into a completely new paradigm, or the speculative energy in the market is incredibly out of control. I think it is the latter. I have said before that we have entered the silly season, but I stand … Read more
53 min in Congressman Calls on California to Fire Pension Official Tied to Chinese Spy Program Fund manager has poured millions into regime-linked companies “A Republican lawmaker urged California to fire a top pension fund official because he participated in a Chinese program that the FBI has called “non-traditional espionage against the United States.” Rep. … Read more
Market is taking coronavirus in relative stride because, if things get marketedly worse, "We're gonna have more QE before you can blink." – Jefferies' @jefmacrostrat, on @CNBC — Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) February 18, 2020 #Equity #markets looking pricier by the minute Via @GoldmanSachs @SoberLook pic.twitter.com/PAvYSRIvw7 — Gregory Daco (@GregDaco) February 18, 2020 This is asinine. … Read more
https://twitter.com/M_PaulMcNamara/status/1229681406198140928 China's flight capacity has shrunk so much in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak that its aviation market is now smaller than Portugal's. 1.7 million seats — almost 80% of capacity — dropped from China services.https://t.co/PMgD8lHnmM by @mangogemini #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/y9YQv52MxX — Tracy Alloway (@tracyalloway) February 18, 2020 https://twitter.com/evdefender/status/1229680578028539904
https://twitter.com/HaulingWolves/status/1229404476722884609 https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/1229778049853468675 Coming in ~4% shy of estimates, Walmart just posted its biggest earnings miss August 2015, says @HumOnTheMarkets $WMT — Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) February 18, 2020 Walmart earnings and outlook fall short as holiday season disappoints Walmart on Tuesday reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings that fell short of analysts’ estimates, as the retailer saw weak … Read more
