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Worrying. When oil goes lower, the story is back on the table. Then i get a second whisper. It goes like this. If we are talking about going into recession, why the heck does the fed feel the need to and how can it be a march rate hike . How can that be on the table . So many like to grab a mike and tell us how great things are now. These conversations should be combined to sound like this. You mean to tell me we are going to have a recession and the fed will raise rates or just an out and out d...

Nasdaq gained. 87 . When you look at the link to the price of oil, the idea we could be headed into a recession has become a powerful fiend. A whispered under current in this environment that services when oil take as dive. When oil goes up we stop worrying. When oil goes lower, the story is back on the table. Then i get a second whisper. It goes like this. If we are talking about going into recession, why the heck does the fed feel the need to raise Interest Rates. And how can it be a march rat...

To the bulls than the bears. With that in mind whats on tap for next week . After the remembrance of two dynamite president s, the guy on the one and the five, we get reports from hormel foods. Hormel, the Company Behind spam thats remaking itself as a high growth food play. I want to be careful. The stock is on a tear around its all time high selling at 30 times earnings. This is a food company. Hormel made very smart acquisitions including the Applegate Farms that really panned out. We also ca...

Were comments made by the mayor of london, Boris Johnson we will have to interrupt you. President obama and british Prime Minister David Cameron David Cameron live from london. Barack has been president more than seven years. I have been Prime Minister nearly 60 years. Our countries have been working together through some of the most troubled global times. We faced the aftermath of the banking crisis, they need to create jobs and our economies, new threats to our security from russia to the rise...

The second week of february we have seen this phenomenon play out and today was no different even as the dow did slip 80 points s p declined 8. 4 . Nasdaq lost 1. 1 . [ sell, sell, sell ] it was up yesterday. What do i mean Pricing Power . Im talking about a companys ability to raise price on its goods and not meet any resistance when it does. The ones that can have stocks that bounce back quickly from marketwide turmoil or they hang in like champs. The ones that cant, they dont come back. Or th...

Parts of the economy are too good. We no longer need to be frightened that strong earnings mean look out. The Federal Reserve will make that earnings number the last good quarter. What a welcome relief. [ applause ] as march goes out not like a lion or a bear but a bull, the dow gaining 84 points, North Carolina up. 47 . How did this happen given how bad january was . I think we need to listen to the cautious janet yellen, the fed chief with the common touch who doesnt want to bring down the eco...

In the last 45 days, we are back in the green, at least for two, if not three of our major indices. The s p 500, in the green. We will call that flat. The nasdaq has not been able to get out of the hole it dug itself into. Some earnings weighing on some of these indices. , microsoft, cat missing estimates. I want to show you the General Health of the s ps 10 sectors. One of the big reasons for the rise in equities is because of energy. Part, hasr the most been up for the entire day up 1. 2 here ...

Here is what is most interesting. The defensive trades stood out as the biggest winners. Gold seeing the biggest quarterly gain in 30 years. Utilities up 9 . Telecom getting more than 15 . And the tlt rallying 8 for the quarter. So you stick with the winners. Do you stay defensive in q2, guys . I think the defensive nature is why people, specifically me maine still question the validly of this rally. Do you stay with those trades . I think you stay with certain things working. Home depot has bee...

Unless something crazy happens today, this will prove, though, to be a very good month for most of the stock market. The dow, if youre not paying attention, up more than 7 just this month. It is now 1. 5 up for the year. We are going to take a closer look at some of the quarters surprising winners and losers, see if theres names that you own on either of those lists. Dow component ge in the news today. Ge capital officially filing to have its too big to fail designation removed after shedding a ...

And were going to get more numbers today. Our roadmap begins with apple shares falling in the premarket after the Company Reported a drop in Quarterly Sales for the first time in 13 years. So what happens now . We got reports that comcast in talks to buy dreamworks animation. That has the stock soaring this morning. Well give you the latest. And twitter shares down about 15 after reporting revenue that misses estimates. Well hear what jack dorsey had to say about the quarter. First up, the miss ...