Closing out the 1st week of earnings season found the major averages higher last week. In the wake of earnings results from Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Blackrock and JP Morgan Chase, however, investors found the earnings reports to be a sell the news type of event. While we’re not going to get into the individual reports…...
Words carry meaning! As an investor, when contemplating those words in the geopolitical and macro realm, deciphering words and verbiage can be critical to a portfolio’s performance. That statement will likely carry the greatest weight for investors in 2018 than in recent years. The geopolitical environment investors are forced to consider this year likely outweighs…...
Investors are hopeful that April proves a better month for equities than did March and after closing out a bearish quarter for the benchmark S&P 500. Through March, the Dow fell 3.7%, the S&P 500 lost 2.7%, and the Nasdaq fell 2.9 percent. In the first quarter, the blue-chip gauge fell 2.3% and the S&P…...
Earlier this month, Target released its Q4 2017 results alongside 2018 guidance. The release brought with it selling pressure on the stock, which has yet to recover and as the broader market experiences steep declines. Much of the reaction to the Q4 2017 results was a result of a stock price that had stormed higher…...
Long-term investing is largely about corporate earnings, sales and the ability of a corporation to deliver a reasonable return on invested capital to its respective shareholder base. Sometimes, however, investors do need to calculate other variables as a means of setting investing goals and expectations for invested capital returns. While economic conditions should always be…...
As the recovery from the 2018 correction continues, we evaluate price action through visual charts to determine what moves are likely in the coming days. As it stands, we remain in a corrective state until we see a breach of new highs to comfortably say the upward trend continues. Looking at the chart above, we…...
That was a pretty bullish end to an otherwise fear littered week that centered on two major points of interest, trade tariffs that could possibly lead to a trade war and the Nonfarm Payroll report that brought with it wage inflation data. Prior to these two highly hyped market realizations coming into focus I offered…...
After a rather rocky road traveled in the first half of 2017, J.C. Penney sales results improved dramatically in the latter parts of the calendar year. J.C. Penny, a retailer gone awry after decades of success some might say. In 2018, J.C. Penny will look to recapture some of that long lost success. On the…...
This week is likely to prove a considerably important week as equity markets have gyrated back and forth throughout February and through the first couple of trading days in March. Stability in equity markets is needed to recapture investor confidence and without said stability a retesting of the February lows is a probable consequence. Some…...
On February 27, 2018, Macy’s reported its Q4 2017 and FY17 results. With some retailers and especially Macy’s, following the numbers for the 4th quarter can be cumbersome, as they had offered holiday sales guidance updates previously. On January 4, 2018, Macy’s offered its November and December 2017 sales in a press release as follows:…...
