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BENTONVILLE, Ark.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–February 19, 2019– The Board of Directors of Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT) approved an annual cash dividend for fiscal year 2020 of $2.12 per share, an increase of … Read more
by Nomi Prins of Daily Reckoning A crucial theme from last year is continuing into this year — stock buybacks. Last year was a banner year for companies buying back their own shares. … Read more
by WARREN MOSLER The ‘labor market’ is not a ‘fair game’ as people need to work to eat, and business only needs to hire if it likes the return prospects, … Read more
EPS: $5.68 vs. $3.75 per share last year Revenue: $71.9 billion vs. $60.5 billion last year AWS: $7.3 billion (FactSet estimate) vs. $5.1 billion last year www.cnbc.com/2019/01/31/amazon-earnings-q4-2018.html
Talk Digital Network, Released on 1/3/19 Portfolio Manager, attorney, finance author, a regular guest on North American media. Danielle Park is the author of the best selling myth-busting book “Juggling … Read more
via Bloomberg: U.S. investment-grade credit spreads are at the highest level in more than two years as the market nears the end of 2018 with the worst returns in a … Read more
via WSJ: Morgan Stanley has agreed to pay a $10 million fine to settle a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority probe into the firm’s compliance with rules designed to detect and prevent … Read more
www.cnn.com/2018/12/26/investing/jcpenney-stock/index.html These are tough times for JCPenney. A day after falling below $1 for the first time since it started trading in 1929, JCPenney stock fell 8% on Thursday to … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter “It now appears bike sharing is the stupidest business, but the smartest brains of China all tried to get in,” Wu Shenghua, founder of 3Vbike, one … Read more
by Martin Armstrong Everything is still on track for a pullback. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at a 14-month low on Thursday, the second consecutive day of sell-offs after … Read more
Today with all the other wonderful financial news, DB shares went under $8. The merger with Citi has obviously fell apart. now the German government is scrambling to Merge DB … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The vengeance of share buybacks: buyback queen Apple plunges. In the third quarter, share buybacks by S&P 500 companies totaled $203.8 billion, according to S&P Dow … Read more
The company values itself at $24 billion. Dell is projecting $87.5 billion revenue this fiscal year (up 9% from previous year). The company has $50 billion in debt. Dell was … Read more
by Zaroden Basically, I’m talking about the sites that we usually share here that aren’t in the mainstream media. Leftwing or rightwing, it doesn’t matter. Let’s share them. Why? … Read more
via MarketWatch: Havens? What havens? If you emerge from this year mostly unscathed, count your blessings, because unless things change in a hurry, 2018 is about to make a dubious … Read more
