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via factset For the fourth quarter, the S&P 500 is reporting a year-over-year decline in earnings of -2.1%, but year-over-year growth in revenues of 2.7%. Given the dichotomy in growth between … Read more
by Power80770M Full discussion here. There was also a pretty big divergence in 2015, back when the economy had a mini recession. Of course the Fed also pumped the market aggressively in … Read more
by VbaHelpTutorial This is one year from the date when E*TRADE sold off my Amazon 4x margin shares at $1440 2 weeks before Amazon raised 15%. I rode it down … Read more
Margin Debt vs $SPX (chart via @yardeni) pic.twitter.com/5kbh8AYHVn — 🔴 I. Vodenitcharov CFA CMT (@iv_technicals) November 13, 2019
I wonder when this becomes a systemic risk or when the SEC wakes up via Reddit: After realizing I only had a few thousand dollars to gamble, I decided why … Read more
www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/drqaro/robinhood_free_money_cheat_works_pretty_well_1/ The boys are back at it so it turns out when selling covered calls and if you buy the shares the stock isn’t subtracted from the buying power. … Read more
Weaker earnings this year have reduced the expected level of buybacks to a pace of $750b, a reduction of 25% from last year pic.twitter.com/RLoq6UkPj2SPX Earnings are correlated to the 10y3m … Read more
by Lance Roberts In a recent weekly newsletter (Subscribe for free e-delivery), I discussed the rather dramatic decline of short-interest in the S&P 500 which suggests a high degree of complacency by … Read more
by Chris Marcus via Arcadia Economics Last week the Department of Justice not only charged several JP Morgan traders with manipulating the market, but even invoked the RICO act, which is traditionally reserved … Read more
Interestingly this is the longest decline from the cycle peak in the aggregate profit margin. 4 and a half years of almost linear drop but been falling for 7 years! … Read more
by alchemicboss Someone wrote 20 puts on SPY at 296 at some unknown time in the past. They collected a premium for this action. Because the strike price is … Read more
via pjmedia: Recent polling on the presidential race of 2020 seems to show President Trump in a very poor position to win reelection. A Fox News national poll and battleground surveys … Read more
by Martin Armstrong Australia’s center-right government won a surprise victory over the left. Voters backed the center-right government in a slowing economy for another three years and rejecting the opposition’s … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Leery investors? During the ugliest October in the stock market that anyone could remember, a nasty November, and a brutal pre-Christmas December, margin debt plunged by $94 … Read more
by Themaskedotaku Data was obtained from each states wikipedia page for each presidential election from 2000-2016. Consolidated data can be found here. Map was created using mapchart.net/.
via advisorperspectives: The New York Stock Exchange previously published end-of-month data for margin debt on the NYX data website, including historical data going back to 1959. Because of NYSE’s suspension of publication, … Read more