Regular readers know I’ve spent decades using data to track Wall Street. But sometimes, Wall Street just comes right out and tells you exactly what it’s thinking… JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is Wall Street’s ultimate insider. Earlier this month, he warned folks to get ready for a financial “hurricane.” And he followed it up …
“One day, Amazon will fail. Amazon will go bankrupt.” That might sound like a haphazard prediction at first. After all, Amazon (AMZN) is the fourth-largest company in the U.S. today. It’s valued at more than $1 trillion. The story gets more interesting when you learn who uttered those words… Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff …
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Maybe you missed this Wall Street Journal headline in early June… Frankly, this kind of thing is common in the grand scheme of finance. But the reason behind this particular resignation doesn’t happen every day… You see, Asoka Woehrmann was the chief executive of Deutsche Bank’s funds arm, DWS, until last Thursday. That’s when he …
We’ve entered a new era of investor psychology… Sentiment indicators show extreme lows. Interest rates are rising. Inflation feels out of control. And food and energy prices are soaring to unprecedented levels. So it’s no surprise that we’re seeing nasty headlines in the media. “Markets in Turmoil” segments are leading financial TV shows. And they’re …
Regular Chaikin PowerFeed readers know all about the Power Gauge… Chaikin Analytics founder Marc Chaikin came out of retirement to build this powerful system. And he set out to help individual investors level the playing field with Wall Street. The Power Gauge uses 20 individual factors to analyze more than 4,000 stocks and exchange-traded funds. …
The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates. And Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has made it clear that he’s focused on fighting inflation… In mid-May, Powell said he would tackle the problem of rising inflation. And even “if that involves moving past broadly understood levels of neutral, we won’t hesitate to do that.” That’s Fed-speak for …
Avalara (AVLR) intrigues me… You’ve probably never heard of the company. In short, it aims to be a leading global cloud-based, tax-compliance platform. And it went public in mid-2018 in pursuit of that dream. Sure, it sounds like a snooze. Thrill-seeking investors don’t seek out tax-compliance companies, after all. But for businesses that operate across …
As parents, we spend many years handholding our children… After all, they’re not expected to know everything. And they’re not expected to do a whole heck of a lot either – at least, not at first. But we do all that with one important expectation in mind… Eventually, we expect our children to grow into …
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Folks, consumer sentiment is bad overall right now. And it’s especially bad in China… In fact, China’s consumer confidence index is at its lowest recorded level. The data goes back to 1991 – a span of 31 years. But frankly, it doesn’t surprise me. After all, as my colleague Carlton Neel detailed on Friday, the …
The government locked its own citizens in their apartments for nearly two months… At this point, we’ve all seen the news out of China. The country’s COVID-19 “zero tolerance” policy is nearly absolute. And it has angered almost everyone… Residents of China’s two largest cities, Beijing and Shanghai, were stuck inside their homes. And in …
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