Ah, if only a strong economy guaranteed a strong stock market

It’s important to remember that a strong U.S. economy doesn’t guarantee a climbing U.S. stock market. We can see that in likelihood that despite that economic strength the stocks in the U.S. Standard & Poor’s 500 are projected to have turned in yet another quarter–the fifth in a row–of declining year to year earnings when all the numbers are added up for the second quarter of 2016.

Brexit: The bass-ackwards crisis

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U.S. stocks pause ahead of earnings

U.S. stocks pause ahead of earnings

Not terribly surprising that U.S. stocks are meandering in slightly negative territory today after busting out to new all-time highs. We’re about to head into the meat of earnings season and a little profit taking undoubtedly makes sense to many of those who caught the recent run. Tomorrow JPMorgan Chase (JPM) kicks off a run of earnings reports from big banks. IBM leads off technology earnings on July 18

Cummins ups its dividend to annual $4.10

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