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MARKETS

Analysts Revise Down EPS for S&P 500 Companies, Jumpstarts Index

MARKETS Wall Street lowered its consensus bottom-up EPS estimate by 2.5% from June 30 to July 28. During the past ...
News

Markets React Within 10 Seconds, Price Adjustment Occurs Within 1 Minute of Scheduled News Releases

FACTS Headline “So what Nancy Pelosi Arrives in Taiwan as China-U.S. Tensions Escalate”. Price Discovery, When Breaking News Comes Indexes React ...
MARKETS

Expect No Real Surprises This Week As (AAPL) and Amazon (AMZN) Boost Investor Confidence

MARKETS Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said in a statement last week following the U.S. central bank’s decision to bump ...
QUANTITATIVE REPORT SERIES

Investors Lottery-Like Preferences Lead to Failure

QUANTITATIVE REPORT SERIES Investors accept lower average returns on stocks with high idiosyncratic skewness and high volatility because they have ...
GOVERNMENT REPORT SERIES

GDP Decreased 0.9 Percent in the Second Quarter of 2022

GOVERNMENT REPORT SERIES Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 0.9 percent in the second quarter ...
MARKETS

Powell will not relent, Fed Hikes 75 Basis Points

MARKETS The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark overnight interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point on Wednesday in an ...
News

Investor Pessimism Continues to Fall

INDUSTRY REPORT SERIES AAII Sentiment Survey July 21, 2022 Pessimism among individual investors about the short-term direction of the stock ...
News

Negative Market Headlines Always Perform Better

FACTS Research shows that headlines using negative words such as never and worst perform much better than those using positive ...
INVESTOR SERIES

Navigating Bear Markets with Top ETF’s and Bonus

INVESTOR SERIES ETF’s represent a robust $6 trillion industry and using ETFs as leveraged and inverse vehicles to bet on ...
MARKETS

Q2 Earnings Report Card, C+ To Date

MARKETS Through July 22nd, Q2 results for S&P 500 Companies … 106 companies (21% of the index’s total membership) Total ...
GOVERNMENT REPORT SERIES

U.S. Economic Growth Slowed in June, Chicago Fed (CFNAI)

GOVERNMENT REPORT The Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI) is a monthly index designed to better gauge overall economic activity ...
News

Yield Curve Basics for Punks

101 SERIES The yield curve is a plot of the interest rate yields on debt instruments of different maturities, holding ...