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.
For the week, the Dow eked out a gain of 0.2%, while the S&P rose less than 0.1%. The Nasdaq notched a decline of less than 0.1%, enough to halt a string of two straight weekly gains. A big nothing burger indeed! When it comes to the market and the bear vs. bull debate one…
It was a big “nothing burger” for investors in the equity markets last week, as by and large the major averages finished nearly flat on the week. For the week, the Dow eked out a gain of 0.2%, while the S&P rose less than 0.1%. The Nasdaq notched a decline of less than 0.1%, enough…...
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There’s some good and bad residing within every trading day. Yesterday’s good news was the performance or rotation out of large and midcap stocks and back into small cap stocks as the Russell 2000 Index outperformed its larger peer indices. Rotation is a sign of a healthy market as it points to active market participation…
Barron’s: What’s the good word, if any, on the economy and the markets? Jeffrey Gundlach: We are more cautious about 2019 than about this year. We always start by asking whether a recession is coming. We have found about a dozen indicators to be helpful on a forward-looking basis. At the beginning of this year,…...
After strong reports from the likes of CSX and Morgan Stanley, equities largely rose in yesterday’s trading session. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced by 79.40 points, or 0.3%, to 25,199.29, with the blue-chip gauge’s fifth positive session marking its longest winning period since the eight-day period ended May 14, 2018. The Nasdaq was the only…
After a rough open for the tech-heavy Nasdaq and usually supportive FAANG stocks, the market quickly rebounded intraday. All major averages, on the heels of a worse than expected Netflix subscriber addition number and share price plunge near 12% overnight, finished higher on the day. What may be even more remarkable than the intraday reversal…
At some point, and we don’t know when, the geopolitical risks will weigh more heavily on investor sentiment than they seem to be weighing at present. But until that point… It was the press conference that was heard around the world yesterday between President Donald Trump and Vladimer Putin. The conference has drawn criticism from…
We have a busy reporting week, with more than 170 companies coming out with quarterly results, including 60 S&P 500 companies. The following graphic identifies some of the key reports due out this week by date. Stocks posted strong gains last week, with the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq all rising more than 1.5…
Last week, the Q2 2018 reporting cycle kicked-off with some of the big banks reporting quarterly results. JP Morgan Chase (JPM), Wells Fargo (WFC) and PNC Financial reported results. JP Morgan’s report was quite strong, but failed to find the stock gain any traction with the entire sector falling once again. We now have Q2 results from 4…...