Shouldn’t we give up and call an end to the entire fake, faulty and corrupt process called government? After all, life’s great if we don’t think about what lies ahead. Let me explain. The government continues to deficit finance on a huge scale and rate. The numbers are fraudulent because the process allows special interests and ordinary citizens to pretend that all is well. My point is that if interest rates were allowed by the FED to return to the 5%+ of the past 25 years, this budgetary scam would blow up tomorrow, given the $19 Trillion of current debt. What is even more scary is that: none of the projections allows for a...
Qualys Inc. (QLYS – Snapshot Report) just released their fourth quarter fiscal 2015 earnings results, posting earnings of $0.14 and revenue of $44.4 million. Currently, QLYS has a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy), but it is subject to change following the release of the company’s latest earnings report. Here are 5 key statistics from this just announced report below. Qualys: 1. Beat earnings estimates. The company posted $0.14 per share, beating our Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.09. 2. Missed revenue estimates. The company saw revenue figures ...
Yesterday the CME FedWatch Model suggested there was a 17% chance the Fed would hike in March. Today, the FedWatch model fell to 2%.Neither the Bloomberg model nor CME Fedwatch show odds of a rate cut. Rate Hike Odds March Rate Hike Odds December One and Done Odds of no hike at all in 2016 surged from 55.7% to 71.4%. Those expecting at most one hike seem to have the upper hand. I have been in that camp from the beginning. Yellen Yap The parade of Fed presidents who had been sticking to the line “4 hikes are coming” have suddenly gone silent. Janet Yellen meets with Congress this week. Her lies and ignorance rate to be amusing. Silly Comme...
How Did the Stock Market Do Today? Dow Jones: 16,027.05; -177.92; -1.10% S&P 500: 1,853.45; -26.61; -1.42% Nasdaq: 4,283.75; -79.39; -1.82% The Dow Jones Industrial Average today (Monday) fell 177 points as tech stocks continued to slump and oil prices cratered again on concerns of a global economic downturn. Financial stocks slumped on concerns that the U.S. Federal Reserve will not raise interest rates in the coming months and global exposure to rising debt levels. The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) – Wall Street’s fear gauge – was up 12.2%. On the economic front, the Labor Markets Conditions Index registered a 0.4 for ...
It’s not just another day in investing-land as bad news rocks around the planet. Monday’s featured players were in Europe as banks were clobbered. The center of the problems was in Germany featuring Deutsche Bank (DB). The strange thing about it today was a problem already known—leverage. But most experts knew all about this stuff for a long time. Only now is a light shown on it. Below is a table that really doesn’t need an explanation. That displayed, even the proletariat “gets it” that western countries and financial institutions are being run by a bunch of mor*ns. That’s why we have political populists dominating the electora...
The Chart of the Day belongs to Alpha & Omega Semiconductor (Nasdaq: AOSL). I found the semiconductor stock by using Barchart to sort the Russell 3000 Index stocks first for the highest technical buy signals, then I used the Flipchart feature to review the charts. Since the Trend Spotter signaled a buy on 1/29 the stock gained 16.13%. Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited is engaged in designing, developing and supplying a broad range of power semiconductors globally, including a portfolio of Power MOSFET and Power IC products. The Company seeks to differentiate itself by integrating its expertise in device physics, process technolo...
Gold spiked higher towards $1200 today on market troubles and a weaker dollar I might add. It seems like the currency war is going through one of its hot spells. Silver even managed to chalk up a decent gain, and is forming a little ‘bowl’ formation of its own on the weekly chart no less. Gold is now quite technically overbought in the short term. Let’s see if we get a retracement or some other sort of action. In the short term anything is possible. I know I am not saying so much this year. Perhaps that is just because the time for talking, for letting people know what was going on, was last year’s business. If...
Folks, today I am issuing an official Super Crash Warning. That means we are on the verge of a serious market crash in the near future, which I now predict will hit by summer, June 20, 2016, and it’s not going to be a good one. It must seem like I never have any good news for you, but it’s my job to see the world as it is, not as I’d like it to be, and what I see is things getting worse by the day: 1. FINANCIAL STOCKS ARE CRUMBLING. U.S. bank stocks have fallen 30% to 40% over the last few months, a very bad sign. Just look at the charts of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS), Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS), Bank of Americ...
Photo Credit: Kevin Krejci SolarCity Corp. (SCTY) Industrials – Electrical Equipment | Reports February 9, After Market Closes SolarCity (SCTY) faces tremendous bearish sentiment heading into its fourth quarter earnings February 9, after the market closes. Over the past 8 quarters SolarCity has consistently missed the bottom line with fourth quarter earnings expected to be no different. The Estimize consensus is calling for EPS of -$2.59 and revenue of $105.48 million, consistent with the company’s downward trend. Compared to Q4 2014, this represents a projected YoY decline in EPS of 95% and increase in revenue of 47%.The biggest ...
Twitter Stock (NYSE:TWTR) has fallen over 30 percent year to date and investors are beginning to panic. Rightfully so, considering the company has been the focus of negative media attention over the past two weeks due to the exit of four key executives, an impending earnings report, and rumors that it will change its homepage algorithm. Here’s a closer look at how each of these events is impacting Twitter shares, and how analysts are responding. Executives fleeing On January 24, CEO Jack Dorsey announced that four executives had “chosen to leave” Twitter. The four ex-executives all played integral roles in Twitter’s product, enginee...