A very happy end-of-the-month to all! Metals --still at the flat base we've had for 1-1/2 months and this morning's futures are looking up; stocks finished mixed (NASDAQ up in lower volume, S&P flat, DOW down in higher volume) while the view today is bearish --all ahead of another big report day:
Challenger Job Cuts
Initial Claims
Continuing Claims
Employment Cost Index
Chicago PMI
Natural Gas Inventories
My stack'o'stuff:
Is this Argentina default going to way on the markets like Greece did?
Samsung stock was going up last year while Apple was going down from its “darling of Wall Street” heights of 800 or so.
Amusing to see South Korea hi-tech having greater world penetration and visibly than Japans. The Japanese look at S Koreans as racial inferiors. Used to be the prevalent thinking in Nippon
Japan population 120 million
Korea population 45 million or so and they are beating Japan. I’ll bet they have a much better birth rate than Japans
So is Taiwan (beating Japan) in consumer electronics with only 25 million people. A leader in laptop/Tablet/smartfone tech. They do lots of Apples design and engineering
Enormous miss in Chicago PMI - Act 52 vs exp 63