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The early trading most of the major averages are trading higher. The dax is up by better than o. 6 . The cac and ftse both sitting just under 0. 6 higher. North Korean Leader kim jongun has ordered his country to be ready to use its Nuclear Weapons at any time. He told the military to be in preemptive mode attack. The saber rattling follows harsh new sanctions imposed by the u. N. Over north Koreas Nuclear program. Also, new data this morning on where investors are putting their money to work. N...

Lets see where we are on that. 1. 977. Geez. Thats the worst performing asset. Japans tenyear yield because you didnt ask. Theres wti. Of course, the deth th the key market lets get to our roadmap this morning. It starts with politics. Big nights for Hillary Clinton and donald trump. Senator rubio drops out. A new political football. A Supreme Court pick is coming this morning from president obama. Confidence valeants stock cut in half. A very bad day for ackman, sequoia. Chipotle falling again....

Particular, where Reed Hastings has to answer questions about new competition from amazon. Amazon announcing it will offer prime video as a Standalone Service for 8. 99 a month. Before this the only way to get Amazon Prime Video was with an amazon prime membership for 99 a year. Lets talk earnings first, because there seem to be this rotation into the ibms and intels of the world, what we have been calling gray chips, some of the formerly out of favor value names. What is the proposition for gro...

Month low. Fell 4. 2 . The worst quarter for the dollar index since 2010. We know its helped. Is it still going to do that . It has helped and is going to continue to help. I think a lot of commentary on the upcoming earnings, the guidance looking forward is going to talk about the previous challenges, the headwinds appreciatinging presented. Now thats dissipating. But in terms of longterm portfolio planning, i dont think we want to get overly excited and think we had the u. S. Dollar drift from...

Were getting the move. There is two primary ones. Better china trade data, particularly on the exports. Then bank earnings, jpmorgan, lets call it good enough. Thats my phrase. People were expecting downbeat commentary. We didnt get that. That helped move the financials and the overall markets. High cash positions forcing a lot of people into the markets, Short Covering going on. Look at the china trade data. The news on china has been relentlessly bearish for a year. Everybody said, oh, my heav...

Campaign trail. In our most recent wall street journal nbc poll, 48 , a pl pleuralty of those said the senate should take action to a nominee to the Supreme Court that the president would send this year and 55 of that same sample said that eventually president obamas nominee to the Supreme Court is entitled to an up or down vote. Were minutes away from the president making his announcement and begins of course to make the case for the confirmation battle that lies ahead. Hampton pearson in washi...

For 2016 was over. Tipped off stocks did with their worst start to a year ever. Correction territory for the dow and the s p 500, almost a bear market for nasdaq. Then, like that texas a m Basketball Team last week, a furious, miraculous comeback. Oil price s rose, recession feas receded, china settled down, stock investors started hitting threepointers. Today the First Quarter ended and you as the coach of your portfolio should feel relieved that the game didnt get away from you. Those big earl...

Todays april jobs report wasnt very strong but it wasnt terrible either. The not so good part was that hiring slowed significantly. In fact, job growth was the slowest since last september. The u. S. Economy did add jobs but just 160,000 of them, far fewer than the 205,000 expected and below the average of the past three months. The Unemployment Rate remained steady at 5 . The good news was that worker wages picked up. Average Hourly Earnings ro rose. 3 . More on the american jobs picture. Repor...

Attorney made his way to capitol hill to make his case against the company and the government and fbi to get apple to unlock an iphone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. It wasnt just apple that had the micrmicrophone. Do did the fbi director and the war of words intensified. The fbi is not some alien force. We are imposed by the American People and use the tools given to us under the law. Its our job to tell people there is a problem. Everybody should care about it. Everybody should wa...

Created, wages are rising, and more people are looking for work. Confident theyll find a job. The numbers speak for themselves. The economy added 215,000 payroll positions last month. The Unemployment Rate edged up to 5 . But thats due to more people entering the labor market looking for work. And average Hourly Earnings rose. Hampton pearson has more on the jobs jolt and what it may mean for Interest Rates. Reporter in march, big gains and retail trade, construction, and health care were the en...