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Apple is facing a tough environment in its key market, China. Several notable trends are adding pressure, not least of which is intense competition from local Chinese smartphone makers - including a resurging Huawei.

Have you seen President Trump's powerful 4 minute video message? Don't miss it!A NATION IN DECLINEQ is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure...

Have you seen President Trump's powerful 4 minute video message? Don't miss it!A NATION IN DECLINEQ is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure...

Stocks sank on Friday, putting the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 on pace for consecutive weekly declines, as traders weighed a raft of corporate earnings and rising interest rates. The Dow fell 846 points, or 2.4%. The S&P 500 was 2.5% lower, and the Nasdaq Composite declined by 2.4%. Friday’s loss was the biggest of the month for the Dow. Those losses put the Dow down 1.5% for the week, on track for its fourth straight weekly decline. The S&P 500 was headed for a three-week slide, and was down 2.5% week to date. The Nasdaq was the...

The leaders of three different countries died after having stopped the distribution of the experimental Covid-19 jabs. All three countries took the decision to distribute the vaccines to their citizens only after their leaders passed away.One of them was Haitian President Jovenel Moise, who was assassinated at his home in Port-au-Prince recently by a group of mercenaries.The Caribbean country has been eligible for free vaccines through the COVAX scheme, run by the World Health Organisation as well as global vaccine charities, but Moise had notably refused the AstraZeneca shots. Only days after his murder, the US dispatched vaccines to Haiti,...

ransomnote: the video starts by interspersing clips of 'celebrities' adverstising the 'vaccine' with clips of young people having seizures. For example, Morgan Freeman says he trusts science and, "if you trust me, you'll get the vaccine." That clip if followed by a horrific video of the driver of a car layed back and sideways into the passenger seat having a seizure, while her little boy is seen on the phone with 911, and the arm of another child is glimpsed seated next to her. Mom is horrified and begging for help and when 911 asks, "Has your mother ever had...

The chief financial officer of Google Inc... Tuesday said overall growth is slowing ... The company will now have to "find other ways" to boost revenue... The stock was down 11 percent, or more than $42...

The narrow QQQ-only Put/Call Ratio behaves quite differently from its headline PCR cousin. We take an initial look at this intriguing trading indicator. As we plunge into the second half of this year, the alleged home of the die-hard bulls? fabled Second Half Recovery, one grand question continues to perplex index speculators. Have we just witnessed yet another doomed bear-market rally or the birth of a new cyclical or secular bull market? While the new long-term secular-bull-hypothesis case is unbelievably weak due to the stellar overvaluations still rampant today, strong arguments exist for both the bear rally and medium-term cyclical-bull...

An upgrade of Microsoft (MSFT) and unexpectedly strong guidance from PeopleSoft (PSFT) lifted the Nasdaq to its highest close in over 13 months Thursday and helped spark a triple-digit gain on the Dow. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 101.89 points, or 1.1%, to 9142.84, ending at its session high. The Nasdaq rose 38.64 points, or 2.4%, to 1678.77, while the S&P 500 was up 11.44 points, or 1.2%, at 993.76. The last time the Nasdaq closed higher was on May 23, 2002, when it ended at 1697.63. Markets were in positive territory the entire session, getting an early...