After the recent Amazon earnings, which were not bad at all, but which put a lid on the company's growth expectations, there was just one thing missing: the same thing that capped Apple's own growth, and creativity: a stock buyback. Well, we just got it.
From the just filed 8-K:
Damn It, Janet!
Yellen’s testimony Wed. “was not dovish relative to market expectations,” and didn’t take March off table, Morgan Stanley strategists Matthew Hornbach, Chirag Mirani, Guneet Dhingra write in note.
She “qualified most of the downside risks to the economic outlook with a positive spin,” while implying that tighter financial conditions need to persist in order for Fed’s economic outlook to change
Submitted by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com,
Retail gasoline prices have dipped below $2 per gallon across the United States. But gas might drop below $1 per gallon soon in some places of the country.
Aside from the financial crisis, when gasoline prices dropped below $2 per gallon for just a few months, retail gasoline prices have not been below $2 since 2004. Gas prices are at their lowest levels in many years.
With central bankers losing credibility left and right, and failing outright to boost the "wealth effect" no matter what they throw at it, the next big question is when will central planners around the world unveil the cashless society which is a necessary and sufficient condition to a regime of global NIRP.
It's amazing, but nearly a year into the Trump campaign the pundits still don't get it: the louder established members of the broken, crony capitalist status quo rail against Trump, the higher his popularity. And there are few more entrenched crony capitalists than the partner of Barack Obama's "tax advisor", the person who singlehandedly crushed the Keystone XL pipeline project so it would generate more profits for his oil trains, Hillary's number one supporter (perhaps tied with Lloyd Blankfein), Warren Buffet's sidekick Charlie Munger.