Finance

Cyber Security ETFs Outperforming On Solid Q1 Earnings

Amid market volatility, the cybersecurity industry is riding high on better-than-expected earnings results, pushing many stocks to multi-year highs. This is especially true as most of the cybersecurity firms beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate on both earnings and revenues and offered robust guidance. Let’s dig into the earnings results of some of the cybersecurity firms…

Pink Tickets On QT Days

I know I have told this story before, but it bears repeating. Way back in 2011 I was watching the S&P like a hawk. Trading each squiggle, I tried to understand what was driving the markets at every point. I focused on technical levels, monitored the news and spent way too long staring at the…

The Big Four Economic Indicators: April Real Retail Sales

Note: With the release of April Retail Sales and the Consumer Price Index, we’ve updated this commentary to include the latest Real Retail Sales. Official recession calls are the responsibility of the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee, which is understandably vague about the specific indicators on which they base their decisions. This committee statement is about as close…

Eyes Without A Face

Today was a pretty interesting one. One bit of bleakness, in spite of the dip on the Dow, was that we’ve got a set of higher highs and higher lows, as I’ve illustrated below with the arrows. I’m hoping this is a one-hit wonder and not a trend change, but – – – them’s the…

Argentina “Successfully” Rolls Debt – Sells 5-Y

So there’s success and there’s ‘success’ and while Argentine officials are proclaiming victory in managing to roll its best, saying it “couldn’t have got a bigger vote of confidence,” the fact that it could only sell the new bonds at 20% yields is perhaps the more important fact… The BCRA desperately supported the peso today ahead of the auctions……

Haemonetics – Chart Of The Day

The Barchart Chart of the Day belongs to Haemonetics (NYSE:HAE). I found the medical products stock by using Barchart to sort the Top 100 Stocks which are the stocks with the highest Weighted Alpha, first by the most frequent number of new highs in the last month, then I used the Flipchart feature to review the charts for consistent price…