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Lower US & Chinese Plantings Could Tighten 2017/18 Stocks
Market Analysis The market’s focus is currently on this spring’s US planting season, which has gotten off to a sluggish start because of recent rains across the central US and some bouts of cold temperatures leaving soil conditions less than ideal. This situation remains important, but previously indicated reduced planting intentions may have already turned […]
Daily Trading Opportunities – Friday, April 28
During the session on Friday, we get several announcements that could move the marketplace, including CPI numbers coming from mainland Europe, GDP numbers coming out of the United Kingdom, and German Retail Sales as well. In other words, we should get plenty of volatility. Gold Gold markets chopped around during the Thursday session, as the […]
Alphabet Inc Shares Surge On Earnings, Revenue Beats
Alphabet (GOOGL) released its latest earnings report after closing bell tonight, posting earnings of $7.73 per share on $24.7 billion in revenue. Analysts had been expecting GAAP earnings of $7.38 per share and $19.8 billion in revenue. In last year’s first quarter, the Google parent reported $20.3 billion in revenue and $6.02 per share in […]
Starbucks Earnings In-Line, Revenues Miss Expectations
(Video length 00:00:50) CNBC’s Susan Li reports Starbucks’ quarterly earnings.
Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – Puzzling Evidence
The Nasdaq big cap techs have powered up to a new all time high. Looking a little parabolic there guys, even if the prospects of repatriating all that cash stashed in overseas tax havens can come back to your pockets for acquisitions, dividends, and stock buybacks. Alphabet, the behemoth formerly known as Google, has about […]
Who Really Controls The Gold Price? The Answer Is Quite Surprising
There’s this notion put forth by the majority in the precious metals community that the Fed and Central Banks control the market price of gold. I have even heard that some analysts believe the Fed could push the gold price anywhere they saw fit…. even to zero. While I agree that the Central Banks do play […]
Leading Stock Market Indicator Still Bullish
U.S. stock markets are hitting new highs this week. The Nasdaq Composite index broke through the psychologically important level of 6,000 points while the small cap index Russell 2000 broke above 1400 points. The Dow Jones index briefly touched 21,000 points, and the S&P 500 was inches away yesterday from 2,400 points. It seems that the stock […]
Amazon.com, Inc. Stock Skyrockets After Smashing Earnings Estimates
Amazon released its latest earnings report after closing bell tonight, posting GAAP earnings of $1.48 per share per share on $35.7 billion in revenue. Analysts had been expecting GAAP earnings of $1.08 per share and $35.3 billion in revenue. In last year’s first quarter, the Internet firm reported $29.1 billion in sales and $1.07 per […]
Recent Dividend Increases III
Hey guys, again it is time to have a look at the recent dividend increases, in March and April there have been a couple of them :). As you all know the advantages of a dividend investor and especially of a dividend growth investor should be that the companies increase their dividends every year. This […]
Earnings-Palooza – AMZN & GOOGL Beat, MSFT & SBUX Miss
Amazon and Alphabet are surging after hours after big beats but Microsoft is fading (missed on revenues and capex) and Starbucks is sliding on a disappointing same store sales comp. Alphabet Big Beat *ALPHABET 1Q EPS $7.73, GAAP EST. $7.42 *ALPHABET 1Q PAID CLICKS +44% Q1 Revs. $24.75B vs. $24.22B Est. Major decoupling from 2017 expectation still Amazon Big Beat: […]
