(Bloomberg) — For the third time in as many quarters, disappointing results from Snap Inc. are roiling social media stocks and adding to signs that the economic slowdown is deepening. The maker of the Snapchat app reported its slowest quarterly sales growth ever on Thursday, saying a decline in advertising spending continues to drag on […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said he expects the central bank to end its ‘’front-loading” of aggressive interest-rate hikes by early next year and shift to keeping policy sufficiently restrictive with small adjustments as inflation cools. “You do have to think about what the reasonable level is,” Bullard said […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Tesla Inc. reported third-quarter sales that fell short of Wall Street estimates, citing the US dollar’s growing strength, along with production and delivery bottlenecks. Revenue rose to $21.5 billion, the company said in a shareholder letter Wednesday, compared with analysts’ projections of $22.1 billion. Profit excluding some items rose to $1.05 a share, […]
Read MoreMarket conditions are Mildly bullish in a Bear Market as of 2022-10-18. This means traders and investors should consider trading with a Neutral or Bullish bias by buying stocks and setting tight stops. The rank of the Bear Market is -19.61 which indicates the current market conditions are Extreme, Risk of a reversal is high. […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve can’t pause its campaign of monetary policy tightening once its benchmark interest rate reaches 4.5% to 4.75% if “underlying” inflation is still accelerating, Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari said. “Core services inflation — which is the stickiest of all — keeps climbing, and we keep getting surprised on the upside,” […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Oil edged lower as the prospect of additional barrels from strategic reserves assuaged market concerns of a tight market heading into the winter season. West Texas Intermediate dropped as much as 2.4% to trade below $84 a barrel in another volatile session. The US is moving toward releasing further barrels from its strategic […]
Read MoreMarket conditions are Mildly bullish in a Bear Market as of 2022-10-17. This means traders and investors should consider trading with a Neutral or Bullish bias by buying stocks and setting tight stops. The rank of the Bear Market is -19.58 which indicates the current market conditions are Extreme, Risk of a reversal is high. […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — The sentiment on stocks and global growth among fund managers surveyed by Bank of America Corp. shows full capitulation, opening the way to an equities rally in 2023. The bank’s monthly global fund manager survey “screams macro capitulation, investor capitulation, start of policy capitulation,” strategists led by Michael Hartnett wrote in a note […]
Read MoreMarket conditions are Bearish in a Bear Market as of 2022-10-14. This means traders and investors should consider trading with a Bearish bias by shorting stocks, buying inverse-ETF’s or buying put options. The rank of the Bear Market is -19.17 which indicates the current market conditions are Extreme, Risk of a reversal is high. The […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — The odds are rising that corporate borrowers will struggle to repay their debts as the Federal Reserve opts for jumbo interest-rate hikes to combat inflation, according to UBS Group AG. Default rates for US leveraged loans could next year rise to 9% as long as the Fed stays on its aggressive monetary-policy path, […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Since 1824, it’s sat at a quiet crossroads of American higher education, surrounded by richer, more prestigious institutions like Cornell University and Colgate University. Now, tiny Cazenovia College, in rural upstate New York, is fast becoming a case study for the financial pressures driving scores of small, not-so-famous colleges to the brink. At […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Inflation shows few signs of cooling in the economy. The same cannot be said of markets, which are starting to seem like the only thing the Federal Reserve has going for it these days. Even with Thursday’s big bounce, the S&P 500 has lost a quarter of its value this year. Shocking as […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Tesla Inc. shares tumbled about 50% from their all-time high, amid a broader selloff in the US stock market that has hit growth and technology companies especially hard. The electric vehicle-maker’s shares closed down 7.6% to $204.99 on Friday, taking its market capitalization to $642 billion. The decline has now sliced in half […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — In most market environments, a company with one of the lowest valuations in the Nasdaq 100 Index, a solid balance sheet and sales growth averaging 34% a year would be an obvious buy. In the case of Meta Platforms Inc., it’s not so obvious. Since Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement a year ago of a […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Stock markets and the US economy will have to experience more pain before the Federal Reserve pivots away from its aggressive policy tightening, according to Bank of America Corp. strategists. Thursday’s rally in US stocks after a hot inflation print resembled a “bear hug” amid oversold conditions, high cash levels and the lack […]
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