Notes You Need for October 17: German economic sentiment, Japan rally, SQM and lithium, NAFTA, Fed chair schedule, NFLX

October 17, 2017 | Daily JAM, Notes You Need | 1 comment

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. I launched this new feature on JubakAM.com on December 1. It runs only on JAM and won’t appear anywhere else. Such as these items: “10:20 a.m.: The ZEW survey for October showed economic sentiment iamong German investors climbing to 17.6 from 17.0 points in the previous month. The index, however, still remains below the long-term average of 23.8 points” and “10:40 a.m.: Japan’s Nikkei stock market index recorded its eleventh straight gain today. The market hasn’t had a losing session yet in October.  In that period the Nikkei is up 4.8% on growing conviction that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is headed to a smashing election victory that will assure the continuation of Abe-nomics and a weak yen.”