#Peakearnings + decelerating growth. If GOP loses the House, no Tax Cut 2.0 possible =may not be already -> see -5% budget cuts yesterday – does it also remove infrastructure, too? Rising interest rates, peak earnings and spiraling debt and …
by QuantalyticsResearch US Stocks Global stocks are advancing this AM as earnings results are dominating headlines (and investor sentiment) US stocks index futures are rising ahead of the open in NY with the Dow Jones minis +0.44%, S&P500 minis +0.43% and …
by Chris Vermeulen of The Technical Traders Our focus is on developing and deploying very specialized price modeling and predictive analysis systems. Our objective is to inform our members of these potential price moves and to assist them in finding successful trading opportunities. …
GE shares soar after company suddenly dumps John Flannery as CEO General Electric abruptly removes John Flannery as chairman and CEO and installs former Danaher CEO Lawrence Culp as his successor. The board had grown frustrated with the slow pace …
via CNBC: Companies are lowering their expectations for the upcoming third-quarter earnings season. So far, 98 have provided guidance, with 74 percent negative and just 24 positive, the worst ratio since the first quarter of 2016 when corporate America was …
by Dennis Miller Diogenes would have a tough time finding an honest man announcing corporate earnings. In my article, Pepsi-Cola Hits The Spot?, I outlined how Pepsi trumpeted sales and profit increases, yet both actually declined. Investors have a difficult challenge managing …
Investors are now earning the smallest earnings yield on the S&P 500 relative to 2-year Treasury yields since 2007. pic.twitter.com/DHhOqOBq2G — Lisa Abramowicz (@lisaabramowicz1) September 20, 2018 So, companies are more leveraged than ever. According to Bloomberg, “The average debt-to-capital …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Women weren’t so lucky either. But who got the spoils? On the surface, the annual household income data released by the Census Bureau today, looks mediocre. But beneath the surface, it looks grim – grim for whom? Ha, …
by Lance Roberts With the markets closed yesterday, there is little to update you on with respect to the technical backdrop from this weekend’s missive. However, this is a good opportunity to review the fundamentals as Q2-earnings season comes to a close. …
by John Coumarianos If you’re concerned about President Trump’s influence on the stock market you’re concerned about the wrong thing. That’s not because political leaders – and their problems — don’t influence stock prices temporarily, but because if you own …
Nvidia stock fell by 6 percent on Thursday after the company reported better-than-expected earnings and lower-than-expected revenue guidance. Here are the major numbers: Earnings: $1.76 per share, excluding certain items, vs. $1.66 per share as expected by analysts, according to Thomson Reuters. …
via confoundedinterest17 The monthly jobs report for July is out and it shows that total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 157,000 in July, and the unemployment rate edged down to 3.9 percent. Employment increased in professional and business services, in manufacturing, and …
Here’s how the company did compared with what Wall Street expected: Earnings per share: 58 cents vs. 57 cents, forecast by Thomson Reuters Revenue: $3.86 billion vs. $3.81 billion, forecast by Thomson Reuters For the third-quarter, PayPal’s profit forecast was …
via Trevor Hunnicutt Fear that U.S. and Japanese policymakers will scale back economic stimulus sent quivers through debt markets on Monday, while U.S. stocks gained ahead of major company earnings reports. Bond yields climbed as investors forecast the Federal Reserve …
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/18/microsoft-earnings-q4-2018.html Some points (paraphrased from article): Earnings of $1.13 per share, vs. 1.08 cents per share expected Revenue: $30.09 billion vs. $29.21 billion expected; grew 17% Commercial cloud revenue growth slowed 5%, from up 58% previously to up 53% this …
I believe the key will not be 2Q earnings, but guidance. If guidance is vague or not confirmed, stocks may fall aggressively. Most companies may beat, but remember the vicious falls in 1Q when stocks simply met estimates or reiterated …
The streaming giant added 5.15 million subscribers during the period, less than the 6.2 it had forecast in April. Netflix shares dropped significantly on Monday after it reported slower subscriber growth than expected. The streaming giant, which has seen user …
by indianleo Earnings season is a very important period of time for investors as well as traders. Every public company posts their quarterly performance or earnings to the public and it generally takes place in January, April, July, and October of …
Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, With roughly 98% of the S&P 500 having reported earnings, as of mid-June, we can take a closer look at the results through the 1st quarter of the year. During the most recent reported period, 12-month operating …
via palisade-research: Markets have rallied into summer. The mess in Italy – which hasn’t resolved itself at all – is yesterday’s news. Within the last two weeks, the VIX is down 35% – investors’ fears are essentially gone. If you turn on CNBC, …
I have mixed feelings about Prof. Lev’s theory- aren’t you just frontloading the cost of these intangibles into early years resulting in higher profits on books later, so it “all comes out in the wash?” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-06/what-s-a-stock-worth-in-new-economy-accounting-has-its-critics On paper, Autodesk Inc. is a …
The bubble popping in 2000 (it was not 2001) was a lot like an avalanche. It wasn’t clear exactly which snowflake was the one that put it over the tipping point, but once confidence was lost, it went very quickly. …
Via Global Macro Monitor, Not very… and we will leave the calculation for the entire stock market to the stock analysts. Here’s why: Just glancing over WalMart’s latest earnings release from the week, we see two one-off macro factors that helped WalMart’s …
WTF–> "76% of companies that went public in 2017 had negative earnings, the highest level since the peak of the dot-come era," h/t @macrodidact pic.twitter.com/44svckh6Nc — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) May 17, 2018 "Corporations have returned $992 billion to shareholders in the …
sign of the times? pic.twitter.com/mjb82BT0eV — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) May 14, 2018 $10+Billion in #Debt, No Earnings, & Huge Staff Departures at #Tesla: CEO #ElonMusk says company is 'flattening management structure' as Tesla's Cash Burning, #Taxpayer Subsidized Ponzi Scheme Begins to …
by Adam Hamilton of Zeal LLC The mega-cap stocks that dominate the US markets are just wrapping up a truly-extraordinary earnings season. Naturally this first quarter under Republicans’ new corporate tax cuts fueled surging profits. But sales were up big too, which is no mean …
"Very Negative Signal for Earnings Estimates (a few short term charts are circulating, but the relationship goes back at least 40 years and the correlation is rising)," h/t @Not_Jim_Cramer $SPX $VIX pic.twitter.com/66eynO9xtG — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) May 9, 2018 will households …
by Phil $134 BILLION! That’s what Jeff Bezos is worth this morning as Amazon (AMZN) crushed earnings last night with $51Bn in sales for Q1, up 43% ($16Bn) from Q1 last year. And Q1 is usually AMZN’s slowest quarter so we’re taking about possibly a …
Jeff Bezos Boosts Fortune by $12 Billion in a Day on Amazon Surge Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person, got a lot richer Thursday. The Amazon.com Inc. founder added $12 billion to his fortune as the company’s shares surged 6.3 percent to …
