Fridays NFP for January 2019
Review the current NFP and understand the correlation between the overall markets and the NFP each month - so you can profit with the logic in your pocket!
Review the current NFP and understand the correlation between the overall markets and the NFP each month - so you can profit with the logic in your pocket!
Economic Calendar
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Latest News Headlines
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Bloomberg: Stocks Mixed in Holiday-Hit Trading; Dollar Steady: Markets Wrap
Stocks in Asia traded mixed Tuesday, with many markets closed for the Lunar New Year. The dollar edged lower and Treasury yields stabilized after gains. [more...]
Bloomberg: This Is What It Takes to Be in the 1% Around the World
Since the financial crisis, income inequality has garnered increasing attention from economists, politicians, and journalists, and perhaps no income level has been cited more than the so-called 1 Percent. Yet that term can describe a wide variety of earners, depending on where they live. [more...]
Bloomberg: Crypto CEO Dies Holding Only Passwords That Can Unlock Millions in Customer Coins
Digital-asset exchange Quadriga CX has a $200 million problem with no obvious solution -- just the latest cautionary tale in the unregulated world of cryptocurrencies. [more...]
Bloomberg: Bill Gross Retires After Storied Four-Decade Career in Bonds
Bill Gross, who transformed bond investing over a storied four-decade career, is leaving the stage after a tough final chapter. Gross, who announced his retirement Monday, struggled in the last four years as head of the Janus Henderson Global Unconstrained Bond Fund. [more...]
Bloomberg: Inside the 300-Foot 1MDB Yacht Malaysia Is Trying to Sell for $130 Million
It boasts a gym, pool, gallery, beauty salon and helipad — not to mention space for sleeping 22 guests — and it’s up for sale at around half its purchase price. Yet finding a buyer for the 300-foot superyacht Equanimity, one of the most striking assets at the heart of the 1MDB scandal, is not proving to be an easy task. [more...]
Bloomberg: BP Profit Beats Estimates as Rising Output Offsets Price Slump
BP Plc joined its Big Oil peers by giving investors a positive surprise, exceeding fourth-quarter profit estimates as rising output and refining throughput offset the impact of a slump in crude prices. [more...]
Reuters: Loose money era leaves trail of U.S. corporate debt junkies
Many U.S. companies that gorged on cheap debt with forgiving terms over the last decade now find themselves shackled by it, spending much of their earnings paying off lenders rather than investing in their businesses or hiring. [more...]
Reuters: U.S.-China tariff hike would trigger downturn, trade diversion: U.N
A U.S. plan to hike tariffs on China next month could trigger an economic downturn and let other countries take over about $200 billion of China’s exports, a study by the U.N. trade and development agency UNCTAD said on Monday. [more...]
CNBC: Boeing shares hit another record, bucking China slowdown concerns: 'Things are just heating up'
Boeing shares are soaring to begin 2019, rising to an all-time high a few days after the company reported booming fourth-quarter results and gave shareholders even greater confidence in the company's prospects in China's nearly insatiable aviation market. [more...]
CNBC: Alphabet drops after revealing declining advertising prices and rising costs
Alphabet reported fourth-quarter results Monday that beat expectations across the board. Still, the stock fell 3 percent in extended trading, on continuing pressure on advertising prices and decreasing margins. [more...] |
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Latest News Headlines
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CNBC: Beijing has been 'ineffective' in reviving its slowing economy: JP Morgan
Chinese authorities' efforts to revive their country's slowing economy have been "ineffective," and it needs to do more, J.P. Morgan Private Bank's head of investment strategy for Asia said Monday. [more...] Bloomberg: Asia Stocks Climb; Dollar, Treasury Yields Steady: Markets Wrap
Asian stocks started the week with modest gains following strong U.S. economic data and positive comments out of Washington on the trade talks. Trading is more subdued as much of the region heads into Lunar New Year holidays. [more...]
Bloomberg: Dollar Vortex Puts Chill on Earnings That May Worsen in Spring
When the list of usual suspects blamed for disappointing corporate earnings is compiled for any given quarter, you can often count on two bogeymen showing up prominently: nasty weather and gyrations in currency markets. [more...]
Bloomberg: Freed Saudis Resurface Billions Poorer After Prince's Crackdown
Almost 15 months after rounding up dozens of Saudi Arabia’s richest and most powerful people and imprisoning them in Riyadh’s Ritz-Carlton, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has declared the raid a lucrative success. [more...]
Bloomberg: America First Is Top Trade for State Street Investment Chief
Buying U.S. stocks in 2018 was among the most popular trades for global investors. State Street Global Advisors says you still can’t beat it. [more...]
Bloomberg: Sony Sees Biggest Drop Since 2015 on Weaker PlayStation Business
Sony Corp. reported weaker profits in the PlayStation business and cut its annual revenue forecast, triggering the steepest share decline in almost three and a half years. [more...]
Bloomberg: Don't Be Fooled by Emerging-Market Comeback, Japan Fund Says
Don’t be fooled into believing that the emerging-market rally fueled by a “patient” Federal Reserve will last throughout 2019. [more...]
Bloomberg: Australia Building Permits See Worst Two-Month Drop Since 2009
Australian building approvals suffered the biggest annual back-to-back drop in almost a decade as a housing slump deepens. [more...]
Bloomberg: Musk Shows Off First Firing of Starship Raptor Engine
Elon Musk on Sunday tweeted videos and pictures revealing the first firing of the new Raptor rocket engine that will power SpaceX’s prototype Starship, the vehicle designed to carry humans on quick hops across the world and eventually to Mars. [more...]
Bloomberg: JPMorgan Says 2020 ‘Might Not Be a Year to Think About Recession’
The Federal Reserve’s change in tone may mean investors should reconsider the timing of the investment cycle, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. [more...]
Bloomberg: Crypto Fever Is Over, the Paris Fintech Summit Shows
Crypto fever has truly broken. That was a big takeaway this week from the Paris Fintech Forum, one of the biggest annual gatherings of its kind in Europe. [more...]
Reuters: U.S. junk bonds are back, for now
While stocks hog the limelight with their best January in three decades, another corner of the risk assets marketplace sprang back to life last month after having taken a pounding at the end of last year, though some investors question whether the recovery has legs. [more...]
Reuters: Asia stocks quiet, dollar firm after upbeat U.S. job data
Asia stocks hovered near four-month highs on Monday after a mixed performance on Wall Street at the close of last week, while the dollar firmed against the yen following strong U.S. job and manufacturing data. [more...]
CNBC: The recent S&P rebound looks a lot like 2000 and 2007--but that's not a bad thing, says JP Morgan
The markets have surged into the new year with the S&P 500 Index posting its best January in more than three decades. Investor optimism of late has been fueled by a stronger-than-expected earnings season, and a Federal Reserve that is expected to pull back on plans to hike interest rates. [more...]
CNBC: Crude oil is on track for its best January ever
Crude is on the move. The commodity has surged more than 20 percent this year and is on pace for its best month since 2016 and its best January ever. Despite the gains, oil prices are still far from their multiyear highs after falling precipitously in October. According to one energy, expert the rally may have already hit a ceiling. [more...] |
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Latest News Headlines
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Reuters: Factory activity shrinks across Asia as cooling China threatens global growth
Factory activity shrank across much of Asia in January, falling to the weakest in years in several countries and adding to worries that trade tariffs and cooling demand in China pose an increasing threat to global growth. [more...] Bloomberg: Asia Stocks Flat as U.S.-China Trade Talks Wear On: Markets Wrap
Asian stocks were little changed on Friday following the best month for global equities in more than seven years, with U.S.-China trade talks set to continue later this month. The yuan gave up a sliver of its recent advance. [more...] Bloomberg: Meet Tesla’s McKinsey-Groomed, Newly Minted Millennial CFO
Zach Kirkhorn landed his first job out of school with McKinsey & Co. and joined Tesla Inc. while still in his mid-20s. He’s now about to take over a finance department that’s been through months of tumult. [more...] Bloomberg: Amazon Sales, Profit Top Estimates, Driven by Retail, AWS
Amazon.com Inc.’s sales and earnings in the busy holiday quarter beat analysts’ estimates, showing the world’s biggest web retailer can maintain rapid growth while improving profitability and fending off online competition from rivals like Walmart Inc. [more...] Bloomberg: Mark Zuckerberg Vaults to No. 5 in the Ranking of World’s Richest
Mark Zuckerberg added $6.2 billion to his net worth Thursday, jumping two places to No. 5 on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, after his Facebook Inc. posted revenue that beat Wall Street estimates, sending its shares soaring. [more...] Bloomberg: Giant Pension Fund Takes $136 Billion Hit in Worst Quarter Ever
The world’s biggest pension fund posted a record loss after a global equity rout last quarter pummeled an asset class that made up about half of its investments. [more...] Bloomberg: Deutsche Bank's Slump Deepens as Trading Hit Hurts Revenue
Deutsche Bank AG’s revenue contracted for an eighth straight quarter in the final months of last year, complicating Chief Executive Officer Christian Sewing’s plan to turn around the lender through cost cutting. [more...] Bloomberg: Citi Drops Buy-Treasuries Trade on Potential Oil-Price Spike
The risk of higher oil prices -- and thus inflation -- from the deteriorating political situation in Venezuela has prompted Citigroup Inc. to cut its trading buy recommendation on Treasuries. [more...] Bloomberg: In Venezuela, the Black-Market Price of Dollars Is Lower Than the Official Rate
Even in the upside-down, topsy turvy world that is Venezuela, where dueling presidents reign and cash has become so worthless it doubles as confetti, this one is pretty weird: The going black-market price to buy dollars is lower than in the officially sanctioned government market. [more...] Reuters: Fed policy turn not good news for Trump as risks mount
The Federal Reserve’s policy twist on Wednesday might seem just what the White House ordered, with a hold put on what President Donald Trump termed “loco” interest rate hikes, and an openness to ending the monthly runoff of up to $50 billion from the U.S. central bank’s balance sheet. [more...] CNBC: Deutsche Bank swings to first full-year net profit since 2014
Deutsche Bank posted its first full-year net profit since 2014 on Friday, despite a weak fourth quarter, amid growing merger speculation and a series of uphill struggles. [more...] CNBC: Another number paints a bleak picture of manufacturing in China
A private survey on China's manufacturing sector showed on Friday that factory activity contracted more-than-expected in January — confirming views that the world's second-largest economy started the new year on soft footing. [more...] |
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