Tumbling Tuesday – NoKo’s Missile Test Over Japan Freaks Markets Out
It’s always something, right? We don’t know what specific event we are hedging against but mornings like this remind us WHY we hedge our portfolios. When the market is priced to perfection, it doesn’t take a great deal of effort to bring it down and, this morning, all it took was North Korea firing a […]
Apple, Accenture Partner To Create IOS Business Solutions
Apple (AAPL) and Accenture (ACN) are partnering to help businesses transform how their people engage with customers through innovative business solutions for iOS. The partnership will take full advantage of the power, simplicity and security of iOS, the leading enterprise mobility platform, and Accenture’s capabilities as a leader in industry and digital transformation to help […]
The Finish Line Shares Collapse On Lower Than Expected Earnings
The Finish Line, Inc. (NASDAQ: FINL ) The Finish Line, Inc., a national retailer of athletic shoes, apparel, and accessories for men, women, and kids company yesterday reported their preliminary second quarter 2017 financial results. Finish Line reported preliminary second quarter earnings to be in between $0.08 and $0.10 per share which fell short of […]
Day Trading Stock Picks For This Week – Tuesday, August 29
Day trading stock picks likely to move big (up or down) during the week of August 29: HTZ, CBI, SNAP, OAS, ENDP, OCLR, NBR, SWN, MOMO, AKS, FIT and CLF, plus several others. Hertz Global Holdings (HTZ) Average day range (30) is 8.4% and average volume (30) is 11.3 million. CBI Bridge and Iron (CBI) […]
Oil And Gas Producers Brought Some Production Back Online In The Gulf Of Mexico
Tropical Storm Harvey continues to add to misery and this storm just will not go away. It was not enough to hit as a category 4 hurricane but massive flooding and the real possibility that this storm is ready to regenerate and possibly boomerang around for another shot at the Gulf Coast is a nightmare […]
Bear Of The Day: Bojangles’
It isn’t much of a secret that things have been pretty poor for the restaurant industry as of late. Competitive pressures, changing consumer tastes, and a general shift away from the space by investors, have all combined to push the industry lower. In fact, the restaurant industry is currently in the bottom 15% of all […]
Gold Bugs Bathe In The Warm Summer Sun
For gold bugs, and even for their lesser brethren in silver, not only is the sun shining in the summer months, but the sun is truly shining on gold as a confluence of factors helps to propel the precious metal ever higher, and one wonders when the angst laden doom mongers will appear forecasting an […]
Treasury Yields Dive To 2017 Lows – Tuesday, August 29
Listen, yields didn’t need another excuse to fall, ok? The flagging dollar was already doing its part by, well, by flagging, and jitters about the debt ceiling combined with lackluster incoming data had already conspired to pretty much extinguish whatever was left of the reflationary euphoria that accompanied Donald Trump’s huge, record-setting, unfathomable, big league, […]
Mr. Draghi, Please Ease Up A Bit
Today we have published the August edition of Global Monetary Condition Monitor our monthly flagship publication, which covers monetary policy in 26 countries around the world and gives an overview of global monetary matters and market implications of global monetary trends. In this edition of the Monitor we focus on the monetary impact of the recent fairly […]
