Monday: The Rightmove National Asking Price Index will be released in the U.K. June’s Producer Price Index will be released in Germany. Tuesday: The Final estimate for May’s Leading Index will be released in Japan. Additionally, the BoJ is scheduled to release the minutes from its June meeting. In the U.K. the Public Sector Borrowing Requirement…
LinkedIn Corp (LNKD) is scheduled to release its next earnings report on July 30, and consensus estimates suggest it will post earnings of 30 cents per share on $679.8 million in revenue. Barclays PLC analysts have upgraded the social network, saying they think the issues that weighed on its first quarter earnings are “transitory” rather than “structural. LinkedIn upgraded…
It looks as if this week will be quieter than recent weeks, which much less on the agenda and with a lot of industry participants beginning to leave on summer holidays. It would not be surprising if the market begins some kind of lull now as we go into August. The key currencies to watch…
The ETF industry saw tremendous volatility in the April-June quarter of 2015 thanks to speculations over Fed tightening, global growth worries, horrendous equity sell-off in China, upheaval in the energy space and the nagging Greek debt deal saga. Though the Greek prime minister Tsipras finally managed to sign a bailout deal after month-long negotiations, his…
Back in February, I tagged Memorial Production Partners (MEMP) as my favorite oi-related play. Overall, MEMP was a great trade, but I had intended to hold it for a much longer time. After breaking its 50-day moving average for the second time in March, I put MEMP on the “sell” list. I sold on the…
by Michael Grogan, First Class Analytics This year has been a fruitful one for the airline industry, but China Eastern (CEA) has certainly been making the best of it. In the past year, the company is up by almost 170 percent, which for comparison purposes is far higher than the 20 percent return achieved by Delta Airlines (DAL)…
Additional signs of no-Grexit help boost European Equity DAX adds 3.2% during week while CAC 40 completes 8-day gaining streak U.S. equity moderately gains on positive earnings season with expectations for rate hike USD strengthens amid hawkish Yellen remarks Iran deal makes oil prices drop to their lowest since April The further dissolving of Greek…
To be sure, we’ve had our fair share of laughs at the expense of China’s newly-minted day traders. Back in March, Bloomberg highlighted a study which suggested that some 31% of new investors in China’s equity markets had an elementary school education or less. Shortly thereafter, we began to look at data from the China Securities Depository…
After a lull in the housing sector in the first quarter, construction activity picked up in the crucial spring/summer months, supported by an improving economic environment and a better employment picture. Moreover, construction trends are expected to improve further in the second half. Higher job numbers, a recovering economy and improving consumer confidence, moderating home…
Welcome to edition 265 of Insider Weekends. Insider buying declined significantly last week with insiders buying $6.83 million of stock compared to $87.6 million in the week prior. Selling on the other hand increased with insiders selling $522.48 million of stock last week compared to $373.29 million in the week prior. Sell/Buy Ratio: The insider Sell/Buy ratio is calculated by…
