iPhone sales in China show double-digit growth in December
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In the week ahead earnings reports will test theories about growth in specific sectors and the economy as a whole. For example, on Tuesday, April 23, we’ll get tests of the “consumer economy” with reports from Coca-Cola (KO), Procter & Gamble (PG) and Verizon (VZ). Coke is projected to show a drop of a penny to 46 cents a share from 47 cents in the year-earlier quarter. P&G is projected to pick up 4 cents a share from the first quarter of 2018 to $1.04 and Verizon is expected to see earnings move up to $1.16 a share from $1.11. Those all set, in my opinion, hurdles that are relatively easy to jump. But the growth is already so modest that any miss could throw these big consumer stocks into a year over year earnings downturn. Which would be a bad way to start the week.Â
Notes You Need for November 6: Broadcom bids for Qualcomm, another Fed resignation, margin debt record, XLNX acquisition rumors, Samsung-Apple patents, Bullish sentiment near peak,
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. Those daily posts includes itms such as this from today: “Another chair to open up at the Federal Reserve in 2018. This time it’s at the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where William Dudley will retire by mid-2018. Dudley’s term didn’t expire until 2019. The New York Fed plays a critical role in handling the Fed’s open market operations and Dudley has been one of the strongest advocates for the Fed’s policy of monetary stimulus in the years since the financial crisis. The New York Fed, rather than President Trump, will conduct the search and pick a new head to run the bank and to occupy the bank’s seat on the Fed’s governing body. I have to wonder that if, at some point, the financial markets start to worry about the huge drain in expertise at the top of the Fed with the departure of chair Janet Yellen, vice-chair Stanley Fischer, regulatory head Daniel Tarullo, and now Dudley.”