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The Great Gilead Gaffe; P&G Earnings Are No Laugh April 17, 2020 Great Stuff Friday Four Play: The “Fool in the Rain” Edition In the evening, when the day is done, I’m looking for market sanity, but the girl don’t come. So, don’t let the market play you for a fool. She don’t show no pity. She don’t make no rules. Last night, I scanned the market headlines before […]
Job Unrest; Abbott Tests; Netflix’s Best April 16, 2020 Great Stuff You’ve Got a Friend in Me “So, no one told you life was gonna be this way … (insert clapping here).” Weekly jobless claims are in, dear reader, and I had to do a double take. Roughly 5.24 million Americans filed new unemployment claims last week, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Now, we’ve […]
Outplaying Big Banks; J.B. Hunt Bucks Up April 15, 2020 Great Stuff Banks Can’t Dance Regular Great Stuff readers know that music underpins many of our pop culture references. But, try as I might, I couldn’t come up with a good banking song for today’s issue. Not even a jingle. The only banking-related pop culture reference that came to mind was the old 1970s Smith Barney commercial: […]
Titanic Earnings; Choppy Sailing; Cinemas Failing April 13, 2020 Great Stuff A Titanic Earnings Season The markets rallied sharply last week in anticipation that things are starting to get better. And, admittedly they are … where the pandemic is concerned. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the outbreak is finally stabilizing across the U.S. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute […]
Market FOMO Rising; Disney Plus Ultra April 9, 2020 Great Stuff Mr. FOMO Risin’ If you ever needed clear proof that the stock market does not represent the U.S. economy, today provided it. The U.S. Department of Labor announced that 6.6 million Americans filed for first-time unemployment benefits last week. The latest data bring the total of new claims to more than 16 million for the […]





