Earnings

February 9, 2019 Earnings One Comment

Stocks end mixed as company earnings reports keep rolling in

Stocks end mixed as company earnings reports keep rolling in U.S. stock indexes stemmed an early slide Friday, finishing mostly higher and nudging the benchmark Standard & Poor’s 500 index to its second weekly gain in a row. Gains by technology and consumer goo… Continue reading at latimes.com Expedia Earnings: EXPE Stock Jumps on Q4 […]

February 3, 2019 Earnings One Comment

Amazon reports record-breaking holiday sales and earnings, but investors aren’t impressed

Amazon reports record-breaking holiday sales and earnings, but investors aren’t impressed Whole Foods could be an issue for Amazon’s sales growth, as sales in Amazon’s physical stores declined year-over-year in the holiday quarter. Amazon.com Inc. brought in $ 3 billion in profit thanks to … Continue reading at marketwatch.com Google Reports Earnings on Monday: 5 […]

January 29, 2019 Earnings 6 Comments

Important Things to Watch When Apple Reports Earnings

Important Things to Watch When Apple Reports Earnings Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) threw investors a curve when it released a preview of its first-quarter financial results earlier this month. In a letter to shareholders penned by CEO Tim Cook, the company … Continue reading at finance.yahoo.com Can eBay Deliver When It Reports Earnings? Last year was […]

January 27, 2019 Earnings No Comments

What Investors Should Look Out for When General Electric Reports Earnings

What Investors Should Look Out for When General Electric Reports Earnings There’s no way to sugarcoat this. The forthcoming earnings for General Electric (NYSE: GE) won’t be pretty. The two segments set to be the core of the company going forward, power and aviation … Continue reading at finance.yahoo.com Cigna (CI) Reports Next Week: Wall […]

January 14, 2019 Earnings 11 Comments

Wall Street rally pauses as investors await corporate earnings reports

Wall Street rally pauses as investors await corporate earnings reports (Reuters) – A five-day rally in U.S. stocks ran out of steam on Friday as investors booked profits and reset their positions ahead of the earning season set to begin next week. The technology and trad… Continue reading at reuters.com Monday Memo: Seattle-area real-estate year-end […]

January 11, 2019 Earnings No Comments

How Companies Like Apple Sprinkle Secrets in Earnings Reports

How Companies Like Apple Sprinkle Secrets in Earnings Reports Don’t blame Wall Street analysts, rank-and-file investors and journalists for failing to read corporate earnings reports from beginning to end. For another, their prose is often dreary and repetitious … Continue reading at nytimes.com Check Out These 4 Stocks With Superb Earnings Acceleration Earnings acceleration … […]

December 12, 2018 Earnings No Comments

What to Watch When Costco Reports Earnings

November 11, 2018 Earnings 12 Comments

Advance Auto Parts reports earnings November 13

Advance Auto Parts reports earnings November 13 Advance Auto Parts ( AAP) reports third-quarter numbers November 13. The company will report before the market open, with the consensus calling for earnings of $ 1.76 for the quarter. During the same p… Continue reading at nasdaq.com Just Energy (JE) Reports Break-Even Earnings for Q2 Just Energy […]

The old Chinese curse, "may you live in interesting times", has particular relevance to the current epoch of U.S. history. There's a lot going on right now, much of it scary. Major investors around the world are responding to the events of our perilous age by sinking their dollars, deutschmarks and yen into gold, silver and palladium; Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and billionaire speculator George Soros to name but a few. Big financial institutions like the Central Banks of Russia and China are also leaping onto the metals bandwagon driving the price of these precious commodities ever higher.

Investments once considered as stable as granite are rapidly losing ground, Lubaszka explains. Real estate is but one example. Long praised as a slam-dunk by money gurus, home-buying is no longer viewed as a hurdle-free path to profit. Stratospheric pricing and higher interest rates are putting intolerable pressure on the current housing bubble, factors bound to bust the suds sooner or later and drive the overheated real estate market into deepfreeze.

According to Lubaszka, the U.S. dollar has lost more than 80% of its original value since the early 70's when we went to a floating currency, a situation not helped very much by the debut of the Euro in the late 1990s. Unlike American dollars, a portion of the Euro is gold-backed, a stability feature that has helped it outperform the dollar over the long haul. It is for this reason that many foreign investors have been taking money out of U.S. dollars and putting it into gold and oil instead, one explanation for why the price of both has continued to rise in recent months.