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This week’s economic calendar is important, including reports on personal income and spending, consumer confidence, and the Fed’s favorite inflation indicators. Despite this, the punditry will be looking toward the week’s end and news from the G20 meetings. Naturally, we c...
"Having patience is one of the hardest things about being human. We want to do it now, and we don't want to wait. Sometimes we miss out on our blessing when we rush things and do it on our own time." - Deontay Wilder Looking at the latest FOMC decision, leading to further compression of US...
We made a new high on Thursday. (Yay!) What does it mean for the future direction of stock prices? If you're an optimist, it means that there are clear skies ahead and there's no telling how much higher this market will go. Pedal to the metal with your equity exposure. If you're a pessimist,...
The market may be reaching all-time highs today, but sentiment is hardly reflective of that. The AAII weekly sentiment survey continues to see modest improvements in bullish sentiment as it rose 2.7% this week to 29.51%, returning it to its normal range (less than 1 standard deviation from t...
Stan Druckenmiller recently gave a wide-ranging interview at the Economic Club of New York. One of the insights he shared that I found most valuable was this: The quote continues: By far the best economic predictor I've ever met is the inside of the stock market. I don't mean the stock ma...
US economic growth has slowed recently, and several key economic indicators are painting a mixed profile about the near-term outlook. The modestly wobbly numbers of late have convinced some analysts to warn that a recession is near. Perhaps, but the data overall still align with a moderate exp...
There are two main sources we draw upon for peering into the future for dividends in the S&P 500 (Index: SPX ). The first of these is a relative newcomer, the CME Group's S&P 500 Quarterly Dividend Index Futures Quotes , which indicates the projected amount of dividends expected to b...
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and President Donald Trump The Federal Reserve is expected to meet Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. Financial markets have melted up in advance of that meeting. In afternoon trading Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ( DIA ) was up nearly 40...
By Yogesh Modak Differences at the Heart of the Negotiations From optimism on a deal in April to new tariffs enforced in May, it seems much has changed in the U.S.-China trade dispute in a short time. It’s fair to ask, what went wrong? Were they as close as they intimated? I spent...
By Gary Alexander This Friday marks the beginning of summer, the "Longest Day" in the Northern Hemisphere. At the end of this month, we will record a positive GDP for the second quarter, marking this as the longest economic recovery in the 240-year history of the United States. And we alre...