Jack Ablin
Jack Ablin
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We're still getting more negatives on the economic front today, and this is a period where we're really looking for economic growth to avoid a Fed rate cut.
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Intel signaled that earnings growth is slowing, but we expected that. The real question is how much it's going to slow, what companies are going to get hit, which one's aren't. We'll know more when more earnings reports come in.
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Intel signaled that earnings growth is slowing, but we expected that, ... The real question is how much it's going to slow, what companies are going to get hit, which one's aren't. We'll know more when more earnings reports come in.
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Investors have their rally caps on for year end, and we're doing it with speculation. With a good inflation report and strong growth, it seems to be the perfect elixir for Wall Street.
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Investors are taking stock of earnings and questioning whether they should be as optimistic as they are.
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Investing in a mutual fund is like riding in a bus; your progress depends in large part on other people and what they're doing. An exchange-traded fund is closer to riding in your own car.
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If there is anything more than 250,000 jobs then everything reverses and all bets about a pause at 3.25 percent are off,
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Generally, Wal-Mart can give real-time data faster than the government, because they can just pull this off their cash registers.
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There has been this continual debate as to whether higher oil prices are inflationary or a restraint on growth. This year, the bond market has signaled that it is inflationary.
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We're no longer in a buy-and-hold environment. You have to be much more active in sector allocation. That's where the future of this business is going.
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We've come off a phenomenal July. And we've seen a real reversal in the stocks that were leading the market, with economically-sensitive names doing well.
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But the key here is really going to be guidance. Everyone is looking for signs of the rolling over of profit growth, although not as much as the Fed or higher energy prices might indicate.
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The projected job growth number would mark a pretty strong snapback from the previous month.
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When you have strong growth and low wages, the chief beneficiary is corporate America.