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Fed Provides Dollar Lift, FOMC Speak And SPX May Play Key Roles
Fundamental Forecast for Dollar: Neutral The Dollar climbs a third week as fundamentals tangibly take over for speculative covering A Fed Funds futures forecast of a 28% probabili... -
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Analysts Highlight Survivors Of The Retail Slowdown: Amazon, Target And Wal-Mart Stores
The significant decline of retail stocks has impacted many well-known clothing stores including J.C. Penney, GAP, Nordstrom, and Macy’s, which reported a 40% loss of net income i... -
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Emerging Market Preview For Week Of May 23
EM’s had another rocky week, but managed to end on a slightly firmer note Friday. Market repricing of Fed tightening risk was the big driver last week, and that could carry o... -
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“The Time Is Now” For Markets To Price In China’s Next Slowdown, A Gloomy Morgan Stanley Warns
Just over a week ago, we pointed out that China’s great credit growth stimulus from early 2016, when the PBOC injected $1 trillion in new credit in the first quarter of the y... -
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Despite Depression, Greece Forced To Hike VAT, Add New Taxes
Greece remains in an economic depression interrupted by a few quarters of anemic growth. Hiking taxes in a depression is one of the stupidest things one can do, but Greece is set f... -
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EC The Great Temptation, Greatest Danger
It always amazes me how most analysis on an investment focuses on recent performance, rather than process. Yet, so little attention is given to the investor return/behavior gap, a ... -
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Wal-Mart Q1 Bucks Weak Retail Trend: ETFs To Surge
Amid a spate of disappointing earnings reports from departmental stores and traditional brick-and-mortar operators, Wal-Mart (WMT – Analyst Report) spread an air of optimis... -
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Top Hedge Fund Sees Solar Power Viability, Profitability Around The Corner
The naysayers regarding solar power have always made one accurate point: the technological cost effectiveness was not the same as cheap burning coal or other carbon emitting sour... -
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Hard US Data For The Data-Dependent Fed
The Fed is leaning to the hawkish side but stressed that it is data dependent. In the penultimate week of May, we get both an update on the worrying first quarter with updated GDP ... -
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SPX – Breached But Not Broken
On 4/20, the SPX rally that started at 1810 came to an end at 2111. From that point, the index declined until it reached 2040 — which was mentioned repeatedly as an importan...
