V.F. Corporation (VFC – Free Report) reported better-than-expected earnings and revenues for the transition period, ended Mar 31, 2018. This marked the company’s third top- and bottom-line beat in the last four reports. The company’s adjusted earnings per share of 67 cents improved 30% year over year and beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 65 cents. Earnings per…
V.F. Corporation (VFC – Free Report) reported better-than-expected earnings and revenues for the transition period, ended Mar 31, 2018. This marked the company’s third top- and bottom-line beat in the last four reports. The company’s adjusted earnings per share of 67 cents improved 30% year over year and beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 65 cents. Earnings per…
For all its tortured economic history since 1989, Japan has never really had an unemployment problem. Going by its unemployment rate alone, conditions don’t ever appear to be all that out of line. At its worst, in both the dot-com recession as well as Japan’s experience during the Great “Recession”, the highest it ever got…
Shares of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) are rising in early trading after traders circulated chatter once again that the company could be a target to be acquired. At a minimum, volatility in the stock has been attributed to takeover chatter on two other occasions in the last six months, with The Fly having indicated…
Do YOU like this market? I sure don’t. Interestingly, we have a failed bullish breakout on our hands with bonds:
“Davidson” submits: The media and most advisors take every monthly economic release as ‘do-or-die’. Lost in the rush to trade on the most recent information are the routine adjustments to economic reports in later months which make initial interpretations meaningless. Today’s employment numbers were deemed ‘weak’, but as the chart of the Household Survey Employment shows, the…
As you are no doubt experiencing, stock market volatility as spiked this year with the S&P 500 dropping or rising 2% or more on eight different days. Jolts of this size didn’t happen at all in 2017. Source: Bloomberg, LP The ramp up in volatility serves as a good opportunity to expand on the idea that…
Since early 2016 we have been carrying forward a theme illustrating that until the macro trends in place since 2011 change, the situation would be as is, stocks trending up and the precious metals in consolidation/correction. The current trends were kicked off symbolically, and functionally to a degree, by the Fed’s concoction of Operation Twist,…
The debt hang-over will suppress saving and spending ability for an extended period in Canada (and other countries), even if rates don’t move higher from here. Laurie Campbell, CEO of Credit Canada discusses how indebted Canadians can manage their debt as the Bank of Canada gets set to hike rates.Here is a direct video link. Video…
The age of the electric vehicle (EV) will be here sooner than you think. Out of 1 billion cars in the world, only 2 million are electric. But that will soon change, as costs diminish, and more governments encourage the adoption of EVs to cut carbon emissions and fight urban pollution. According to Bloomberg, by…
