Last week's economic data came out mixed but did push stocks higher. With COVID-19 cases on the rise, including in the White House, this next week's performance will set the stage for the rest of the month. more...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.4%, over 100 points, on Thursday, while the S&P 500 rose 0.4% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite gained 0.5%. Stocks jumped after a bigger-than-expected increase in jobs last month: The Labor Department reported that 4.8 million jobs were added in June—more than the 2.9 million expected. The unemployment rate fell to 11.1%, down from 13.3% in May. The jobs data for June was collected ...
Succumbing to market pressure, crude producers' group OPEC and its 10 non-OPEC allies intervened to deepen their ongoing output cuts of 1.2 million barrels per day (bpd) by another 500,000 bpd on Friday (December 6) following the conclusion of their meeting of ministers in Vienna, Austria. In a surprise for the market, OPEC revealed that bulk of the burden will largely fall on Saudi Arabia's shoulders, with the kingdom announcing it would cut "voluntarily" ...
Apple announced a slew of new services at its event on Monday, including the Apple Card, a credit card that Apple is offering in partnership with Goldman Sachs and Mastercard. In this note, we take a look at what the new card could mean for Apple’s growing services business using Trefis data. more...
The long-term trend in oil is down and it has been since the pre-recession peak up near 150 in early 2008. Since then, it's been unable to move higher than that top. The direction of the line connecting that 2008 peak with the lower 2013/2014 peaks is unmistakably downward. The uptrend line connecting the low in 2016 to the 2017 low has been broken. Oil has closed below that trend line for 2 weeks in a row now -- and it's back inside the ...