Quarterly results from the four largest U.S. banks (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo) showed better than expected results as American consumers continued to support the economy. [more]
The net worth of U.S. households continues to increase while, at the same time, households’ leverage continues to decline. What this means is that U.S. households’ asset values are rising at the same time that risk aversion continues strong. This is a relatively healthy situation. [more]
Piper Jaffray conducted its 38th biannual survey of U.S. teens – overall spending decreased by 4% with YouTube, Nike, and Amazon popular among this demographic. [more]
There was a sharp rise in interest rates in the final two days of last week. This moved key yield curve ratios away from Inversion levels and resulted in the Recession Barometer in the USA falling to 8.0x from 9.0x. Canada went on a recession Count-Down as of August 8. [more]
A big merger terminated, an IPO delayed and the first cannabis ETF down almost 60% in share price this past year, has the bloom fallen off the cannabis flower? [more]
As income investors in Canada and the U.S. continue to face the challenge of a low interest rate environment, the equity market dividends continue to lure investment dollars. [more]
Most of the yield curve ratio combinations that we follow weakened this past week. However, the most important metric, the 10-year/2-year ratio, actually widened. We will continue to monitor closely U.S. interest rate developments and yield spreads. [more]
Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) reported Q3/2019 global sales of 97,000 electric vehicles, which missed Factset’s estimate target of 99,000, with a 1.8% sales growth quarter-over-quarter compared with a 51% growth in Q2/2019. [more]
Kuuhubb, a Finnish mobile games company with a niche focus in developing or acquiring female-focused apps, recently announced expansion of its mobile games portfolio to include Match-3 and Casual Match-3 Esports platforms. [more]
Last week, NASA posted then quickly retracted a paper written by Google’s researchers outlining a claim that the tech company built the first quantum computer while citing the term “quantum supremacy”, which means the computing power has reached a point capable of carrying out calculations previously impossible or more specifically, too time exhaustive, to carry out. [more]
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