Posted on 11/16/2014 10:11:33 AM PST by expat_panama
Home Depot earnings could signal a housing slowdown Press Herald - 7 hours ago 'Whenever there was a question in the community that no one could answer, the saying was, "Go ask Miss Alice." ' More Headlines.
http://breakingfinancenews.com/earnings/lowes-reports-strong-third-quarter-earnings/4486/
I do shop Lowe's over HD in my life. Drive by two HD’s to get there.
Yesterday's stocks slipped slightly in steady but below average volume while gold works back up to $1,200 and silver's perched above $16. Today's futures are nervous for both (indexes -0.35% metals -0.44%) because of this morning's document dump--
Initial Claims
Continuing Claims
CPI
Core CPI
Existing Home Sales
Philadelphia Fed
Leading Indicators
Natural Gas Inventories
--and global markets:
Asia shares hurt by soft China data, yen slides Asian stocks mostly fell on Thursday as factory output data suggesting that China's economy was slowing dampened investor sentiment, while the yen slid to multi-year lows against the dollar and euro. The ...
It sure seems that way, but I have to fight my sour feelings on this. Last week's Retail Sales came in as expected +0.3% after last months -0.03%. We'll know more w/ how next week's personal spending and consumer confidence comes out.
Related thread: US stock futures soar after China’s surprise rate cut http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3229480/posts ..
I was wondering why everything was up so sharply this morning.
Is there a housing slowdown or is it still MSA by MSA? Is only HD losing earnings, their stores stink, or are other competitors seeing declines as well?
some say it’s China, my guess was the holidays, for whatever reason we’re seeing a LOT of pressure on the upside...
Apparently, the American Stock Markets are happy with Herr Obozo’s “all illegals in free!”. Below are the real time stats at 7:27 am PST:
S&P 500+0.83% Dow+0.84% Nasdaq+0.77%
Ah, that's good too. Here's the list so far for the market surge:
Much more about China than amnesty...
“seeing a LOT of pressure on the upside...”
Appears we sprung a leak. ;^)
yeah, everyone’s now just hoping to at least break even...
Politicians without borders.
Google break-up plan emerges from Brussels
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/617568ea-71a1-11e4-9048-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3JnQohAKJ
Robotics is the wave of the future
Deregulation at heart of Japan’s new robotics revolution
http://news.yahoo.com/deregulation-heart-japans-robotics-revolution-212046238—sector.html
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