A free tool can help traders bank big this earnings season.Financial stocks (JPM, C, and WFC) kicked off earnings season on Friday, and traders need to position themselves now in order to ensure maximum profit from it.One company can help any investor do just that.They've developed a tool that predicts volatility based on earnings announcements.The tool works on select stocks with a 77.6% accuracy...Read More
The Dow fell over 500 points at its lows, but pared its losses into the closeThe Dow plunged out of the gate this morning, and was down 548 points at its session low, as industrial heavyweights 3M (MMM) and Caterpillar (CAT) sold off after their latest earnings reports. The early downside bias echoed a bearish mood overseas, where stocks in Asia and Europe succumbed to heavy selling. While stocks...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The easy money may be over.U.S. company earnings growth is slowing after a bumper start to the year, and the reality of an escalating trade war between two of the world’s largest economies is starting to weigh on companies ranging from Caterpillar Inc (CAT.N) to Ford Motor Co (F.N).While earnings growth is still high at 22 percent so far this quarter, the amount by which...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street indexes were down on Tuesday though they pulled back from the day’s lows after investors fled to safety on worries about a global slowdown in growth while oil tumbled and pressure mounted on Saudi Arabia over the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.Benchmark U.S. Treasury prices rose, sending yields to their lowest levels in almost three weeks as tumbling equ...Read More
TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. healthcare conglomerate Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) said on Tuesday it will buy all outstanding shares of Japanese skincare firm Ci:z Holdings Co Ltd (4924.T) that it does not already own for 230 billion yen ($2.05 billion) in cash.J&J is betting the deal - which will give it ownership of popular brands such as Dr.Ci:Labo, Labo Labo and Genomer - will help it strengthe...Read More
(Adds two-year auction results, quotes, updates prices)* Benchmark yields lowest since Oct. 3* Treasury sells $38 bln two-year notesBy Karen BrettellNEW YORK, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Benchmark U.S. Treasury yields fell to their lowest in almost three weeks on Tuesday as tumbling equity markets worldwide fed investor demand for low-risk debt.China’s main stock indexes resumed a downward spiral as...Read More
(Reuters) - Cloudflare Inc, a U.S. startup whose software makes websites load faster and with greater security, is preparing for an initial public offering (IPO) that could value it at more than $3.5 billion, people familiar with the matter said.The San Francisco, California-based company is looking to go public in the first half of next year, the sources said this week, joining a string of softwa...Read More
Caterpillar and 3M earnings are the big story todayThe Dow is trading lower today following a disappointing round of corporate earnings. Most notably, blue chips Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) and 3M Co (NYSE:MMM) are leading the sell-off, overshadowing upbeat results from McDonald's Corporation (NYSE:MCD). Below, we'll look at how shares of CAT, MMM, and MCD are trading today, and how the options ma...Read More
BATON ROUGE, La (Reuters) - It is difficult to say what is behind a recent stock market selloff, said Atlanta Federal Reserve president Raphael Bostic, though he cited geopolitical risk and a rise in long-term bond yields as recent developments that may play a role.The Fed’s own rate increases have been underway “for the better part of two years, the uncertainty around trade has been g...Read More
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia’s Vladimir Putin met U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security advisor on Tuesday after the Kremlin said that Trump’s talk of quitting a landmark arms treaty that scrapped nuclear missiles in Europe was dangerous.In opening remarks, Putin told John Bolton that Russia was sometimes surprised by what he said were unprovoked steps that Washington took...Read More
The short seller set a year-end $100 price target on Tesla back in MarchThe shares of Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) have been volatile in recent months, per their 120-day historical volatility of 63.4% -- in the 99th annual percentile. Things are no different today, with the security up 10.2% to trade at $290.69, after Citron Research said it was long on TSLA stock.The noted short seller set a $100 pric...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two regional Federal Reserve banks were pushing for holding steady the rate commercial banks are charged for emergency loans until shortly before the U.S. central bank's last policy meeting, minutes from discussions about the discount rate showed on Tuesday.The Fed raised its benchmark federal funds rate at its Sept. 26 policy meeting as it forecast that the U.S. economy wou...Read More
MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. national security advisor John Bolton said Russian meddling in U.S. elections had backfired on Moscow, providing a lesson to the Kremlin: “Don’t mess with American elections.”Speaking on a visit to Moscow, Bolton said there was no evidence the meddling - which Russia has denied - materially affected the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, but that i...Read More
Nvidia's recent pullback could have bullish implicationsThe shares of Nvidia Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) are taking part in the broad market and semiconductor sell-off today, down 4.2% at last check to trade at $221.41. Also pressuring NVDA lower is a price-target cut from UBS to $260 from $285. However, there is silver lining for the chip stock in the form of two bullish signals that just flashed....Read More
Palladium futures settled at a record on Tuesday, as concerns surrounding supplies from Russia, following U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to pull out of a nuclear treaty with Moscow, lifted prices for a third straight session. Palladium for December delivery PAZ8, -0.29% climbed by $15.10, or 1.4%, to settle at $1,122.80 an ounce on Comex after tapping an intraday high of $1,137.70. The settle...Read More
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has agreed to give Pakistan $3 billion in foreign currency support for a year and a further loan worth up to $3 billion in deferred payments for oil imports to help stave off a current account crisis, Pakistan’s government said on Tuesday.The $6 billion total exceeds forecasts by analysts and will likely reduce the size of any bailout Pakistan it receives f...Read More
(Reuters) - Wall Street sank on Tuesday, continuing a punishing month for U.S. stocks, as dismal outlook from industrial bellwethers Caterpillar and 3M sparked concerns over corporate growth and added to worries ranging from China’s slowdown to Saudi Arabia’s diplomatic isolation.The S&P 500 has now declined for five straight sessions and had finished higher on only four of the 17...Read More
Two years after commercial production began in October 2016, Newmont Mining's (NYSE: NEM) Merian mine in Suriname has poured one million ounces of gold.Newmont Suriname - a subsidiary of the Colorado-based company - owns 75% of the mine and Suriname's state-owned oil company, Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname, owns the remaining 25% stake.Construction of the mine, about 60 km south of Moengo and 1...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading bank regulator on Tuesday fined Capital One Bank [COFCO.UL] $100 million for failing to enforce anti-money laundering controls that have been in place for years.Capital One failed to satisfy a 2015 consent order that demanded the bank improve its anti-money laundering policies, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) said in a statement.“The Bank...Read More
BATON ROUGE, La. (Reuters) - Falling stock prices, uncertainty around global trade and other possible “headwinds” are not enough yet to throw the U.S. economy off course or force the Fed to alter its intent for continued gradual rate increases, Atlanta Federal Reserve bank president Raphael Bostic said on Tuesday.Speaking as equity markets dropped sharply over global concerns and weak...Read More