After 20 years in the retail and consumer goods sector, I became a research analyst and market strategist for Capital Ladder Advisory Group. Since 2011, I have published some 400+ articles surrounding mainstream retailers like Bed Bath & Beyond, Target, Costco and more. I've covered consumer goods corporations such as Apple, Keurig Green Mountain, SodaStream, Skullcandy, Fitbit and more. To date, I've garnered over a hundred media references to my analytics including Forbes. Presently, I am a contracted consultant to many retail and consumer goods companies in North America and manufacturing entities in China and Korea.
Wayne Nelson brings us his latest daily, technical market recap as Amazon delivers results that beat on top and bottom line, but revenue guidance disappoints. Please click the link to access the video. Don’t forget, Friday morning ahead of the opening bell is the all-important Nonfarm Payroll report. Like the latest Initial Jobless Claims, there…
Welcome to our latest State of the Market (SOTM). Please click the link to view the video. (58 minutes in duration) Outline: Introduction (0-3 minutes FOMC/Fed meeting, revert to data dependency, no rate hike, what was removed in statement, usual behavior of the Fed, market reaction to Fed, no catalyst for inflation via PCE Index…
U.S. Equity Strategy: Buybacks to Remain Strong Amidst Uncertainty Buybacks have been a key theme through this cycle with S&P 500 companies returning ~$5 trillion to shareholders since 2009 and contributing ~2% to annual EPS growth (S&P 500 divisor has fallen to 1999 levels, see Figure 30). Despite the recent market volatility, buyback activity has…...
The major averages were higher going into the Fed/FOMC rate decision announcement… and then they doubled their respective gains after the rate hike decision. The move in the market put an end to the Jerome Powell regime market trend of declines post the FOMC rate hike decision. What brought an end to this streak of…
In the evening’s technical market recap with Wayne Nelson, we discuss the Q1 2019 Apple earnings release and subsequent market reaction. In addition to looking at the market reaction to AAPL, Wayne discusses the outlook for the market, eyeing some key technical levels. Please click link to review video
Ahead of today’s Daily Market Dispatch, we want to remind our readers and subscribers that our weekly State of the Market video will be available on-site, firstly, to Premium Subscribers Thursday evening. Now let’s get into the market overview and what to expect from today’s Fed press conference! Although the Nasdaq (NDX) continued to suffer…
Please click the link to access our daily, Technical Market Recap with Wayne Nelson. Within the recap Wayne discusses the declines in both Nvida and Catepillar shares that proceeded there quarterly warning and releases. Wayne also discusses the overall market and earnings results that are and will continue to create market moves. The video is…
In the following video, Wayne Nelson discusses the Technology Select Spider ETF (XLK). He offers some technical analysis that may be bombarded with some near-term fundamental earnings headlines from the tech sector. Some of those earnings will come from Apple Inc. (AAPL) after the closing bell on 1/29/19 and Microsoft (MSFT) in the days to…...
For the second straight opening-trading day of the week, the major averages fell sharply. And why did equities fall, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) falling more than 400 points at its low point of the day? Earnings, earnings and revenues! But here’s something interesting that also happened on Monday and akin to the…
Our weekly technical market recap for week ending January 27, 2019, inclusive of the major indices and specific tech names slated to report earnings this week. Please click link to review. Video is 41 minutes in duration.