Financial Sense

By Michael Shedlock By Michael Shedlock – Waymo’s early rider program is now a year old. And it’s expanded as a taxi service for shoppers. People still tell me “self-driving will never work” but it’s working already. Please consider Waymo… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Matthew Kerkhoff By Matthew Kerkhoff – Right now, in terms of price, the S&P 500 is less than 1% away from its high-water mark set at the end of January. But take a look at what has happened to the S&P 500’s P/E during that time. …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Jeffrey D Saut By Jeff Saut – We have used the “Not Afraid” story many times over the past 48 years, but we dredged it up again this morning because of the many questions about “being afraid” we got in Boston two weeks ago… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Jeffrey D Saut By Jeff Saut – So a concerned Raymond James financial advisor (FA) emailed us yesterday with the question: “Jeff, I know you have connections in Washington and wanted your take on how the mid-term elections are shaping up… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Danielle Park By Danielle Park – Rivets are starting to blow once more on the debt-on-debt Ponzi driving Chinese markets. Following the lead of western companies, corporate buybacks in China have surged in 2018 (see left). This is the latest desperate… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By FS Staff FS Staff – Patrick Renvoise, a leading pioneer in the field of neuromarketing and co-author of the newly released book, The Persuasion Code: How Neuromarketing Can Help You Persuade Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime, explains how most of our decisions… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Danielle Park Danielle Park –Detailed in the videos below we see similar themes and catalysts between the U.S. in 2006 and Canada today. As property prices mean and revert so do highly levered economies and financial markets. Expecting any other outcomes is unrealistic. …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Patrick O’Hare – When we published our first quarter earnings preview on April 6, the projected earnings growth rate for the first quarter was 17.3%. Today, it sits at 23.2%, according to FactSet, which would be the highest… …read more

By FS Staff – Financial Sense Newshour just spoke with Craig “Bullseye” Johnson from Piper Jaffray to get his outlook on the market. Johnson believes the corrective phase that started in February is likely not over and provided some downside targets for the S&P… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Urban Carmel By Urban Carmel – Starting around the year 2000, many investors began obsessing over the aging demographic profile in the United States. The concern seemed reasonable. The working age population in Japan had peaked in 1995, 5 years after the Nikkei… …read more From:: Financial Sense