India raises tariffs on U.S. imports
I wonder if the Trump White House ever feels like it's playing Whac-A-Mole. Certainly as soon as the administration talks one tariff crisis back from the edge, another seems to pop up somewhere else in the globe. Now it's India. India has announced retaliatory tariffs...
U.S. stocks wander as China trade worries nag
The market doesn't go up every day so it's important not to over-react to minor weakness. As of the close today New York time the Standard & Poor's 500 index was off a slight 0.03%; the Dow Jones Industrial Average had slipped 0.05%. The NASDAQ Composite was down...
No news is good news so far this weekend
U.S. financial markets are closed today for Memorial Day. (Can't help but think of my Dad who climbed telephone poles to string wire during World War II. "While they shot at me," he would say with a mixture of surprise and outrage. I'm sure you have someone(s) to...
Notes You Need for November 26: Argentina, Italy budget, Treasury yields, MGM, Federal Reserve minutes, Salesforce, corporate bonds, BMY, AAPL
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...
Notes You Need for July 7: G20 disarray, trade war, lithium battery recycling, MSFT, rig count, China inflation
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Saturday Night Quarterback says, For the week ahead expect…
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As expected, the Bank of Japan decided to lie low today ahead of tomorrow’s meeting of leaders of the G20 economies. Japan’s central bank kept interest rate policy steady, didn’t increase its asset purchases, and didn’t pour any verbiage on the currency wars fire.
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