The consumer credit crunch rolls on

The consumer credit crunch rolls on

Capital One Financial (COF), the third-largest U.S. credit card lender, is cutting borrowing limits on it credit cards. The company has said it's no big deal, telling Bloomberg that “Capital One periodically reviews accounts based on a variety of factors and may make...
Notes You Need for December 11: Tax cuts boost tech earnings, Itau Unibanco, Hong Kong rally continues, Verizon and NFL, COF

Notes You Need for December 11: Tax cuts boost tech earnings, Itau Unibanco, Hong Kong rally continues, Verizon and NFL, COF

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. Post includes items like this from today: “Investment  bank Cowen & Co. estimates that Amazon (AMZN), Alphabet (GOOG) and Facebook (FB) will save a combined $4.5 billion  on taxes in 2018 thanks to the Republican tax bill. The tech giants, Cowen also notes, should in addition benefit from the bill’s capex expensing provision. The investment bank sees big earnings per share gains for the companies with Amazon showing an expected earnings upside of 24%, and Alphabet and Facebook seeing 8% earnings increases.”

Notes You Need for December 11: Tax cuts boost tech earnings, Itau Unibanco, Hong Kong rally continues, Verizon and NFL, COF

Notes You Need for November 7: Cash at value funds, Disney talks to Fox, EuroZone retail sales, Wal-Mart’s mobile app vs Apple Pay, Potash merger, SQM, Brexit, consumer credit, COF

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. Blog items are posts like this from today: “12:20 p.m.: China’s Ministry of Commerce has cleared the proposed merger of Potash of Saskatchewan (POT) and Agrium (AGU)–providing diverse its minority positions in Arab Potash and Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile (SQM) within 18 months.”Â