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Market Dissection: October 2013
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013. Wal-Mart predicts sales will grow faster next year. Wal-Mart Stores Inc ( WMT. Expects slightly stronger sales growth next year as it makes changes such as opening more smaller U.S. stores and shutting 50 poorly performing stores in Brazil and China, executives said on Tuesday. EBT card system failure leads to empty shelves in Louisiana Walmart stores. One woman in Springhill was detained by police after trying to get $700 worth of food when she only had 49 cents on her card.
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Market Dissection: SIX: First look
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Thursday, July 24, 2014. I decided to take a look at Six Flags Entertainment Corporation ( SIX. After seeing this article. It also happens that I've been thinking that entertainment stocks in general might provide good investments going forward. Economic growth appears to be gradually ticking up, unemployment is down, and entertainment, at least according to my personal experience, appears to be a relatively high priority in consumer spending. Turning to the annual balance sheet. Income itself doesn't se...
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Market Dissection: Spin
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Thursday, October 10, 2013. Stocks soar on hopes for deal to avoid US default. No kidding. Only, I guess market participants forgot that a possible default wasn't actually priced in to stocks. So, the Dow ( DJI. Ended the day up over 2%, or over 300 points. And why? The gains accelerated after House Speaker John Boehner told reporters that the House would take up a short-term extension of the government's borrowing authority. And small-company stocks tend to be high beta stocks. I have to admit, I didn't...
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Market Dissection: Wal-Mart's growth strategy
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013. Wal-Mart predicts sales will grow faster next year. Wal-Mart Stores Inc ( WMT. Expects slightly stronger sales growth next year as it makes changes such as opening more smaller U.S. stores and shutting 50 poorly performing stores in Brazil and China, executives said on Tuesday. EBT card system failure leads to empty shelves in Louisiana Walmart stores. One woman in Springhill was detained by police after trying to get $700 worth of food when she only had 49 cents on her card.
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Market Dissection: Sometimes you really don't want to follow the herd
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Saturday, October 5, 2013. Sometimes you really don't want to follow the herd. You say Twitter, I say Tweeter: Investor mix-up? A bankrupt electronics retailer appears to have gotten caught up in the investor fervor for Twitter. Apparently, there was some confusion between the tickers TWTR and TWTRQ. Just a guess, but I doubt that there's ever been an IPO with a ticker that ended in Q, except maybe Q. It happens in the real world all the time, so why not in the Wall Street dream world?
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Market Dissection: Risk premium
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Sunday, October 13, 2013. Even though our government is a week closer to default, the market risk premium appears to be edging lower. This is one of those times that maybe the stock market doesn't behave terribly rationally. Then again, maybe it is perfectly rational. After all, can't we be relatively certain that Congress won't allow a default? I'm not so sure. As of right now, it looks like we'll be off to a rocky start on the week, with S&P futures in Sydney. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Market Dissection: March 2013
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Friday, March 29, 2013. Feeling Good on Jobs: March Consumer Sentiment Rises. Consumers have discounted the administration's warning that economic catastrophe would follow the reductions in federal spending, and consumers have renewed their expectation that gains in employment will accelerate through the rest of 2013.". Consumer Spending in U.S. Climbs by Most in Five Months. Gee, it's getting a little tiresome here with initial estimates being revised up all the time. It seems like not that long ago...
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Market Dissection: April 2014
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014. CEO Barra calls GM's actions on deadly defect 'unacceptable'. Lawmakers are investigating why GM and regulators missed or ignored numerous red flags that faulty ignition switches could unexpectedly turn off engines during operation and leave airbags, power steering and power brakes inoperable. So, I wonder how long this investigation will go on. It's simple, really. It's the same thing that Ford ( F. Bingo But is it really "disturbing? I don't think so. This type of decision-m...
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Market Dissection: July 2013
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013. What you're looking for. Most of the searches involved a couple of items: interest rates and QE. Then there was also a search for “why war doesn’t help the economy.” I think that war search is particularly interesting, so I’ll talk about that first. Risk free rate and QE. I’ve dealt with these subjects before and fairly recently, so I’m not going to go into a whole lot of detail here. Monday, July 29, 2013. Pending home sales pull back in June as rates rise. I've fallen behind o...
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