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China promises to cut taxes, increase spending to stimulate economy
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Ominous weakening today, September 6, below the surface in U.S. stocks
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This market’s volatility puzzle–it’s as if investors and traders don’t think risk is climbing in the general market
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Next earnings season test after Netflix? Microsoft
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I’m buying the Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF in my Perfect 5 Portfolio today
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Second quarter GDP forecasts start to come back to earth
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Here we go again: Argentina and Italy compete to see which can be the next Greece
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Best performing ETF in my Perfect 5 ETF Portfolio? PowerShares KBW Bank Portfolio
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China promises to cut taxes, increase spending to stimulate economy
China will cut taxes by $300 billion (or about 1.2% of GDP according to JPMorgan) in an effort to increase growth in a slowing economy, deputy central bank governor Zhu Hexin, assistant finance minister Xu Hongcai, and Lian Weiliang, vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission announced today. The government also said that it will increase spending this year and the People’s Bank promised to make monetary policy more forward looking with “reasonably ample” liquidity. The first of two cuts to reserve requirements at China’s banks went into effect today with the second cut expected on January 25. Even though the Beijing government tried to temper enthusiasm–Premier Li Keqiang said that the government will not resort to a flood of stimulus–markets in China cheered.
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Ominous weakening today, September 6, below the surface in U.S. stocks
I know it looks like nothing much happened in the U.S. stock market today, Thursday, September 6. After all the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index was off just 0.37% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was actually head by 0.08%. But below the surface, there was increased weakness today that leaves me concerned.
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This market’s volatility puzzle–it’s as if investors and traders don’t think risk is climbing in the general market
Facebook (FB) falls almost 20%. Netflix (NFLX) tumbles 14%. Twitter (TWTR) is down 21% on earnings. Intel (INTC) finished today down 9%. And yet the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), which measures the price that traders are willing to pay to hedge risk VIX, the so-called fear index? Here’s my best shot at making sense of the divergence.
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Next earnings season test after Netflix? Microsoft
The Netflix (NFLX) drop yesterday (14.27%) and today (5.24%, which actually showed a recovery from the after-hours tumble) on the company’s disappointing guidance for the third quarter says that we’re still on track for a test of the earnings rally. But the test has become a bit more focused after the Netflix news. While that individual stock dropped on the disappointment, the market as a whole crept higher with the Standard & Poor’s 500 up 0.4% today. The more focused test has now become, Does the market treat any miss as limited to the individual stock (as it has with Netflix) or does it begin to generalize any disappointment in the third quarter to the market as a whole?
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I’m buying the Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF in my Perfect 5 Portfolio today
I picked the Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLU) as one of my five buys in my recent Special Report: “Five Places to Hide from a Downturn and Still Make Some Money” on my JubakAssetManagement.com site. And today I’m adding it to my Perfect 5 ETF Portfolio. As I wrote in my Special Report, “Don’t know whether you’ve noticed but recently utilities stocks have climbed, mostly, when the Standard & Poor’s 500 has droppe
read moreSecond quarter GDP forecasts start to come back to earth
Not so long ago major economic forecasts such as the GDPNow forecast from the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank were calling for second quarter U.S. GDP to grow at an annual rate of better than 4%. That was extraordinarily strong growth and it fit in with forecasts from Wall Street analysts for better than 20% earnings growth for the companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index during the quarter. Needless to say (but I’ll say it anyway) those two numbers fed into a belief that we would see a summer rally on earnings reports. Now, however, those GDP forecasts are coming back to earth.
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Here we go again: Argentina and Italy compete to see which can be the next Greece
Maybe you missed it amidst all the noise about the G7 meeting and the summit with North Korea, but… Argentina has asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a $50 billion loan to support the country’s economy and currency. The IMF is expected to approve the request at its June 20 meeting. Approval would release 30% of the loan, or $15 billion. And in Italy new Finance Minister Giovanni Tria said that Italy’s new government has no intention of leaving the euro
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Best performing ETF in my Perfect 5 ETF Portfolio? PowerShares KBW Bank Portfolio
Of the five ETFs in my Perfect 5 ETF Portfolio only one has outperformed the S&P 500. Since I added it to the portfolio on October 5, 2017 the PowerShares KBW Bank Portfolio ETF (KBWB) has gained 11.01% through 3:30 p.m. on May 22.
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This market indicator is signaling trouble ahead–in 2020 (Strange: That’s the same year the CBO estimates the annual U.S. budget deficit will hit $1 trillion.)
Earlier this evening I wrote about the unusual inversion in the VIX Fear Index which had futures for the CBOE S&P 500 Volatility Index (VIX) priced to show more risk in the near future than in the far future. Normally the price curve runs in the other direction since the near future is usually more predictable than the far future. Near future and far future are relative terms in the financial markets. In this case we aren’t talking about the difference between short-term 3 month Treasury bills and 10-year Treasury notes. The VIX curve stretches out from future contracts that expire in a couple of weeks to contracts that run for 40 days or more. But a market indicator that does focus on a longer time horizon is also indicating trouble ahead for 2019 or more likely 2020.
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This market looks to be in “exhaustion”–what that means for positioning your portfolio
In a post earlier today I argued that the plunge in U.S. stocks on March 22 was due to investor’s and trader’s suffering from an exhaustion of sentiment. They simply couldn’t see enough reason to the upside to stay in the market against a tide of pessimistic sentiment. I should have called it an exhaustion of good news. But “exhaustion” is also a pattern familiar to technical analysts who look for these periods when all the buyers or sellers are committed to the current trend so that there are no new buyers or sellers to drive the market higher or lower.
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