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Retail Weeps, China Creeps, Bankers Beat and Testing Sleeps
May 15, 2020 Great Stuff
Friday Four Play: You Down With PPT? Holy cats! It was one busy Friday. I mean, we had a literal smorgasbord of market-moving data … all in one day: Consumer spending set another record in April, plunging 16.4%. President Trump blocked semiconductor shipments to Huawei. China threatened to activate its “unreliable entity list.” Trump questioned […] These Cheap Stocks Are Traps — Don’t Buy Yet!
May 11, 2020 2020 Financial Crisis, American Investor Today, Wealth Protection
(3-minute read) Global auto sales are plunging, along with rental companies’ and automakers’ stocks. These cheap stocks have further to fall. Don’t fall into this bull trap. Jobs on the Line; Peloton’s Doing Fine
May 7, 2020 Great Stuff
Wall Street’s Breaking Bad This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. — Arthur Dent, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Indeed, it is Thursday, dear reader. And you know what that means … weekly unemployment claims and a market rally. (More optimistically, it’s also Reader Feedback day! Read on…) The […] Jobs Data Vapor Lock; Shopify Shocks; Gamers Game Amok
May 6, 2020 Great Stuff
The Market Gods Are Crazy Any Great Stuff readers home-schooling kids right now? It’s quite the experience, let me tell you. New math? Pshaw … I’ve done things with fractions and limits in the past week that would turn you white. Yes, Mr. Great Stuff, we get it. Math is hard. But what about the […] 3M’s Mask-on Magic; Pfizer Pfalls; Caterpillar Crawls
April 28, 2020 Great Stuff
It’s Different This Time It’s the mantra of the hopeful and the rally cry of bullish investors whenever the market takes a turn for the worse. As I scanned headlines in the financial media this morning, the simple truth of these words struck me. Take this morning’s original MarketWatch headline for example: “Stocks rise for […]