Big Bank Theory! Financials Lead Stocks Higher. The 1st Quarter earnings parade began Friday with an unexpectedly great start. Banking giant JP Morgan reported record revenues AND net income. This put aside the residual fears from the disastrous 4th Quarter of 2018. In fact, JPM made it clear that the feared “inverted yield curve” had […]
A Gusher of Opportunities Sometimes the charts and the fundamentals don’t jive. The Standard & Poor’s 500 earnings forward estimates for 2019 have been dropping as stocks have been rising. The market seems to believe that a decent recovery is to begin by the second half of the year. Sometimes, both the charts and fundamentals […]
New Market All Time Highs Dead Ahead and More Trades For the Next Leg The notion that the Federal Reserve is stoking another Asset Bubble looks more correct every single day. “Federal Reserve Stokes Another Asset Bubble”. (https://markonomics101.com/2019/03/22/federal-reserve-stokes-another-asset-bubble/). First the Cryptocurrencies resurrected. “Cryptocurrency Sector Explodes Higher”. (https://markonomics101.com/2019/04/06/cryptocurrency-sector-explodes-higher/). Bonds are already near their all time […]
Founder Elon Musk Continues Self-Inflicted Damage (Chart of the Day 21) Elon Musk and Tesla shareholders endured a rough week. First Quarter sales fell far short of expectations and below those of the 4th Quarter. (https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/ttd%20m3.png?itok=j-aL57e0). The schedule of Federal price subsidies explains why. A “rebate” of $7,500 per vehicle until January 1st, 2019 was […]
Cryptocurrency Sector Explodes Higher The sentiment toward the Cryptocurrency sector has turned to wildly bullish. Not only has the number of google searches for “Bitcoin” surged, as shown on the left, but so have tweets. We’ve anticipated this rally now, in two recent posts. “Crypto Rally Imminent”. (https://markonomics101.com/2019/02/21/crypto-rally-imminent-chart-of-the-day-15/). And, as recently as one week […]
Media Darling No More I am writing this article partially because of the recent CNBC video that came out just a few days ago on March 28th. Dain Evans’ headline was “The story of Yelp — and why it’s struggling to survive.” He tackles a Harvard study done by business school student Michael Luca and […]
Cryptocurrency Sector Ready to Rally Despite Reports of FAKE Bitcoin Volume The Cryptocurrency Sector is on the verge of starting a long awaited rally. The resistance line is at $145 Billion, exactly the level as of early Sunday evening. (https://coinmarketcap.com/). The Sector continues to be plagued by shady practices. Bitwise Asset Management performed an analysis […]
LYFT’s IPO Raises Questions LYFT’s IPO priced at $72 on Thursday night implying a pre-trading valuation of $22 Billion Dollars. Only weeks earlier the value range was thought to be between $10-$15 Billion. LYFT’s first trade was $87.24, just shy of a $27 Billion value. Trading went straight downhill from there, with the stock […]
BofA says BUY Bank of America Analysts have put a BUY rating on Pioneer Natural Resources Co (NYSE: PXD) with a share price target of $215. I wholeheartedly agree with them. Pioneer Natural Resources Co is an oil and gas producer that primarily operates in the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford Shale. Their exposure to […]
The Importance of Setting Trading Limits On Social Media, many of our recent posts and predictions have been questioned. There is doubt that an asset bubble, or series of them, is forming. Most analysts still believe that interest rates will be unchanged. In contrast, we recently made a case for the potential of an immediate […]