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INVESTOR SERIES If you purchase before the ex-dividend date, you get the dividend. If you buy a stock one day before the ex-dividend, you will get the dividend. Ex- dividend dates The ex-dividend date which is the trading date which the dividend is not owed to a new buyer of the stock. The ex-date is … Read more
GOVERNMENT REPORT SERIES The Producer Price Index for final demand fell 0.5 percent in July, seasonally adjusted, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This decline followed advances of 1.0 percent in June and 0.8 percent in May. On an unadjusted basis, final demand prices moved up 9.8 percent for the 12 months ended … Read more
FACTS Ignore the never ending stories and emails offering up stock picks. Understand that the real money is made from the sources that are offering it up and how effectively the publishers of these articles can influence investors on key market days. Common practice in most all articles and other Most all the articles and … Read more
FACT President Joe Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act into law Tuesday, sending $52.7 billion to processor manufacturers over five years in an effort to help the US reclaim semiconductor industry leadership lost to Taiwanese and Korean companies and challenged by increasingly capable Chinese firms. Semiconductor makers are planning rapid expansions in the United … Read more
GOVERNMENT REPORT SERIES The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) was unchanged in July on a seasonally adjusted basis after rising 1.3 percent in June, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 8.5 percent before seasonal adjustment (consensus estimate was 8.7%). Consumers … Read more
MARKETS Markets are trading lower early today as Investors await the latest CPI inflation data to be released on Wednesday August 10th which guide upcoming US Federal Reserve’s rate hikes. In addition the NASDAQ got blindsided by Micron Technology weak forward forecast. Expect no real surprises this Weeks as consumer price index reports priced-in Core … Read more
WEEKLY ECONOMIC REPORTS (Week Ending 8/13) TIME (ET) REPORT PERIOD ACTUAL MEDIAN FORECAST PREVIOUS MONDAY, AUG. 8 11 am NY Fed 3-year inflation expectations July ACT 3.2% — 3.6% TUESDAY, AUG. 9 6 am NFIB small-business index July 89.5 89.5 8:30 am Productivity Q2 -5.0% -7.3% 8:30 am Unit labor costs Q2 9.5% 12.6% WEDNESDAY, … Read more
PUBLIC RELATIONS Vica Partners Private “Momentum Fund” is up 41.24% Year to Date ending July, exceeding most Industry peers. In 2022 we continue beating the markets with our machine learning findings As human knowledge and action can’t generate sustainable performance, non-human knowledge requires an alternate worldview. After 18 months of iterations our single proprietary … Read more
GOVERNMENT REPORT SERIES The New York Federal Reserve’s monthly Survey of Consumer Expectations showed that respondents expect inflation to run at a 6.2% pace over the next year and a 3.2% rate for the next three years. Improvement from 6.8% and 3.6% results from the June survey. Key survey findings Through June, food prices rose … Read more
MARKETS Fed Chair Jerome Powell Expects Large September Rate Hike as the Fed is under continuing pressure for another 75 basis-point interest rate hike at its upcoming meeting next month as data on Friday showed job gains despite high inflation and rising costs. The Federal Reserve’s anti-inflation measures appear likely to drive higher unemployment that … Read more