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Reuters and Kevin Miller: Wall Street drops as Broadcom warning hits chip stocks

June 20, 2019

MARKET NEWS JUNE 14, 2019 / 12:26 PM / 4 DAYS AGO US STOCKS-Wall Street drops as Broadcom warning hits chip stocks By Shreyashi Sanyal June 14 (Reuters) – U.S. stocks dropped on Friday, as shares of chipmakers sank on a warning from sector major Broadcom of a broad weakening in global demand and Chinese […]

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LPL: What Do Stocks Do After The First Rate Cut?

June 18, 2019

It is widely expected that the Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) will cut rates at the upcoming July meeting, with the potential for as many as three total rate cuts this year. This would be the first rate cut since the Fed started hiking rates in December 2015. Concerns over trade and the global economy have […]

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John Hancock: Weekly Market Recap Week Ended June 14th

June 17, 2019

  Eyes on the Fed The U.S. Federal Reserve will open a two-day policy meeting on Tuesday amid market expectations that at least one interest-rate cut could come this year, given recent softness in employment growth and inflation data. If the Fed doesn’t announce a rate cut at its June meeting, it will have another […]

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LPL: Main Street’s Sentiment Improves

June 13, 2019

Main Street’s Sentiment Improves Posted by lplresearch In the Beige Book, the Fed presents qualitative observations made by community bankers and business owners—or “Main Street”—about economic (housing, labor market, manufacturing, nonresidential construction, prices, tourism, wages) and banking conditions (lending conditions, loan demand, loan quality). Main Street’s feedback is especially important now that U.S.-China trade tensions […]

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John Hancock: Weekly Market Recap Week Ended June 7th

June 11, 2019

  Fuel from the Fed  Stock indexes surged more than 2% on Tuesday after U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the Fed is closely watching the negative impact that trade wars could have on the economy. He said the Fed “will act as appropriate to sustain the expansion”—a comment that was seen as increasing […]

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John Hancock: Weekly Market Recap Week Ended May 31st

June 4, 2019

  Market May-hem May proved to be no match for this past December in terms of a monthly decline, but the market’s drop from near-record highs at the start of the month was steep nevertheless. The S&P 500 and the Dow both fell nearly 7% in May; the NASDAQ tumbled almost 8%.  Bright spot The […]

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Bloomberg and Kevin Miller: This Year’s Stock Market Got Too Hard for Anyone to Figure Out

May 31, 2019

This Year’s Stock Market Got Too Hard for Anyone to Figure Out By Sarah Ponczek May 30, 2019, 4:01 AM CDT It took the better part of a decade for Americans to warm to a stock rally that has created $20 trillion in wealth. Could it take just one brutal quarter and a trade war […]

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Kevin Miller on Money Life with Chuck Jaffe

May 30, 2019

Chuck Jaffe covers funds and ETFs in the Market Call with Kevin Miller of the E-Valuator Funds. To listen to the segment tune in around the 38:30 mark to hear Kevins segment. http://moneylifeshow.libsyn.com/trimtabs-biderman-major-correction-in-the-offing

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John Hancock: Weekly Market Recap Week Ended May 24th

May 28, 2019

  May’s pain It’s been a rough ride for stocks since the start of May, when the major indexes were at or near record highs. With a week left in May, the S&P 500 and Dow were down around 4% while the NASDAQ was nearly 6% lower. Bond rally For the fourth week in a […]

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Bloomberg and Kevin Miller: Markets Wrap

May 24, 2019

U.S. Stocks Bounce Back on Latest Trade-War Moves: Markets Wrap U.S. stocks rebounded on Tuesday as the trade-war driven back-and-forth that has dominated markets this month showed few signs of abating. Treasuries slipped while the dollar gained. “There’s two things that drive the market — emotion and fundamentals,” Kevin Miller, chief executive officer of Minnesota-based […]

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