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.
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Ahead of the rate hike announcement that was delivered Wednesday afternoon, Finom Group had anticipated and forecasted the post announcement move to our subscribers, as shown in the following screen shot from our private Twitter feed. After the end of a two-day meeting, the Fed increased its target for its benchmark-lending rate to a range…
It’s not quite Monday Night Football, but Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s press conference will prove to be “must see T.V.” shortly after the FOMC delivers a .25 bps rate hike today at 2:00 p.m. Easter Standard Time. The rate hike is not in question, but rather how the FOMC has parsed out its mandates on…
We kicked-off the trading week with another round of sector rotation whereby the broader indexes further decoupled in price action. The Dow Jones Industrial Average found industrials and consumer stocks in retreat, resulting in the index shedding some 180 points on the day. The broader S&P 500 index fell roughly 10 points or .35%, also…
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Economic Data Strength Markets have been grinding higher in a low-volatility market for several weeks, months even. Improving economic data, which have pointed to strong economic fundamentals, particularly in contrast to other regions, where stocks have been struggling, has largely supported the gains. But last week even emerging markets began to rally after the latest…
Welcome to our latest weekly research report where we’ll be discussing our usual topics surrounding the economy and financial markets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) rose 86.52 points to 26,743.50 on Friday. The S&P 500, (SPX) meanwhile, closed around the flat line at 2,929.67 after rising as much as 0.4 percent intraday. Both indexes…...
In a recent article titled Gundlach Warnings 5-years in the Making, we outlined some of the erroneous reporting by some of the permabear market participants. Jesse Colombo of Clarity Financial was highlighted within the article as we denoted the following: “What you will notice in Colombo’s article, as it is within Gundlach’s narrative and perspective,…
After sideways action in the markets for the first two trading days of the week, the markets may have picked a direction on Wednesday, well at least for the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The Dow finished higher by .61% on Wednesday, but the Dow’s rally didn’t provide leadership as the S&P 500 rose a scant…
If you believe that markets follow earnings, that was made most clear by the global equity markets on Tuesday and as most major global equity markets rose on their respective trading sessions. It had been feared that the escalation of the U.S.-China trade spat would ignite greater fear amongst investors, but this didn’t prove to…