The stock market rallied hard Tuesday on hopes that Russia will not invade Ukraine. The S&P was +1.58%, the NASDAQ +2.53% and the Russell +2.76%. 75% of stocks on the NYSE and NASDAQ advanced on the day. Since most investors…
On Monday March 23, 2020 before the market opened – in the midst of the COVID panic – Chairman Powell essentially told financial markets that he would do whatever it took to support financial markets: The Federal Reserve will continue…
$20 billion used car retailer CarMax (KMX) reported earnings for the quarter ended November 30 Wednesday morning. While the top line was on fire at +65% this didn’t translate to the bottom line with EPS up only 15%. Why? Similar…
Monday’s trading session was bullish and the trend remains up regardless of the fundamentals. The most positive development was the broadening out of market strength. Last week was all about mega cap tech pulling up a thin market. Today the…
The combination of all this fiscal and monetary stimulus is turbocharging what Keynes called aggregate demand. All that demand is putting tremendous stress on the global supply chain resulting in bottlenecks and raw material inflation. The inflation we are now…
For the first time in 40 years we have real inflation in the US and the implications are enormous. It means the end of the 40 year bond bull market, a stock market crash and The Second Great Depression. In…
There are a number of companies on a different fiscal year whose quarter ended at the end of August rather than September and therefore give us a preview of what to expect when 3Q earnings season swings into full gear…
A lot happened this week and it was almost all bearish in my opinion. The week started (Monday) and ended (Friday) with concerns about the collapse of behemoth Chinese property conglomerate Evergrande. US markets don’t seem much concerned about it…
I went to one who had the reputation of wisdom, and observed to him – his name I need not mention; he was a politician whom I selected for examination – and the result was as follows: When I began to talk with…
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