In an perculiar coincidence, just hours after Home Capital Group imploded in what we dubbed Canada's "New Century" moment, Canada's housing regulator, the Canada Mortgage And Housing Corporation, which describes itself as "contributing to the stability of the housing market and financial system" moments ago the CMHC issued a report, warning that there is "strong evidence of overall problematic conditions."
The US stock market is officially in a massive bubble based on the one valuation metric that cannot be faked.
Corporations can engage any number of accounting gimmicks to juice their earnings, cash flow, and dividends… for this reason P/E, P/CF and P/DY ratios are all suspect when it comes time to value a corporations.
Sales cannot be gimmicked. Either money comes in the door, or it doesn’t. And if a company is caught messing around with its sales numbers, someone is going to jail.
Speaking at at an event hosted by The Hill this morning, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin made a grand introduction for today's main event: he said President Trump's forthcoming tax plan will be the "biggest" tax cut in history, even if he provided few clues as to what will actually be contained in the package, set to be unveiled at 1:30pm today.
WTI/RBOB prices were at the lows of the day after last night's huge surprise inventory data from API, but kneejerked higher after DOE reported a surprisingly large crude draw (the biggest since Dec 2016. However, it's clear that refineries are on fire as gasoline and distillates inventories surged by the most in at least 3 months. US crude production rose once again to its highest since August 2015.
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Could the “Weekly Closing Highs and Lows” of last year, be impacting stock prices in 2017? The Power of the Pattern thinks so! Below looks at the S&P 500 over the past couple of years. where we applied Fibonacci to the “Weekly Closing Highs and Lows” of last year.
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