Today brings the selling that many expected after Wednesday’s Fed meeting

Today brings the selling that many expected after Wednesday’s Fed meeting

Yesterday, growth stocks climbed in the face of signals from the Federal Reserve on Wednesday that interest rates increase were coming sooner–as soon as the end of 2022–than expected. That seemed puzzling. May be, one line of thought (mine) had it, investors and traders decided that growth stocks would outrun any increase in interest rates that might take place in 2022 or 2023. Today, we got the selling that many had expected yesterday

Today it’s Amazon’s market

Today it’s Amazon’s market

This morning shares of Amazon (AMZN) burst higher out of the box, gaining 5.98% as of noon New York time. The catalyst, it appears, was a new target price from Goldman Sachs of $3800 a share, up from the previous target of $3000. The shares had closed at $2961.97 on...
Notes You Need for September 14: Sports betting, Brazil, CPI, Treasury deficit, ADBE, PC chip shortage, HSY, rig count, dollar/yuan

Notes You Need for March 16: ADBE, Apple target price, energy MLPs, rig count

In my daily trawling through the market I come upon lots of tidbits of knowledge that I think are important to investors but that don’t justify a full post. I’ve decided to start compiling these notes here each day in a kind of running mini blog that I’m calling Notes You Need. A representative items resembles this from today: “10:20: Wall Street analysts rushed to raise their target prices for Adobe Systems (ADBE) after the company beat earnings and revenue estimates yesterday. The stock closed yesterday at $218.87 and was up 3.05% at $225.55 at the close today. BMO Capital Markets raised its target price to $260 a share from $205. Stifel took its target to $250 from $230.”

Notes You Need for September 14: Sports betting, Brazil, CPI, Treasury deficit, ADBE, PC chip shortage, HSY, rig count, dollar/yuan

Notes You Need for December 15: ORCL, COST, ADBE, Softbank, Wag, 7% to 9% earnings boost from tax cuts, rig count, Corker switches to “Yes”

In my daily trawling through the market I come upon lots of tidbits of knowledge that I think are important to investors but that don’t justify a full post. I’ve decided to start compiling these notes here each day in a kind of running mini blog that I’m calling Notes You Need. A typical item would resemble this from today: “10:40 a.m.: Costco (COST) is up almost 5% this morning after releasing earnings for the fiscal first quarter after the close yesterday and showed the company is doing just fine in the face of competition from Amazon (AMZN) Sales climbed 13.3% in the first quarter with a 43% increase in e-commerce sales.” 

Markets survive Thursday (Comey, Brexit, ECB) and analysts unleash flood of upgrades

Markets survive Thursday (Comey, Brexit, ECB) and analysts unleash flood of upgrades

Financial markets today shrugged off testimony from fired FBI director James Comey, a stunning election rebuke of Prime Minister Theresa May in UK elections, and a lack of news from the European Central Bank yesterday. The Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index is up 0.14% as of 12:30 p.m. New York time today. The only exception to the calm is the pound, which has tumbled almost 2% against the dollar