China’s manufacturing sector suffered a slowdown in July, as higher raw material costs, longer lead times for supplies and extreme weather weighed on factory activity in the world’s second largest economy. According to the latest reading published by t…
As a public company, Clorox has generated large, consistent returns for its shareholders for decades.
Google announced the next generation of Pixel smartphones on Monday. Without sharing too many details on the phones set to debut this fall, the announcement was more of a teaser of what’s to come. The Pixel 6 and 6 Pro will be the first smartphones pow…
Just a couple of weeks ago, the United States had just celebrated Independence Day in almost normal fashion, it looked like the worst might be over in terms of the pandemic. The number of new cases was at a the lowest level since March 2020, and the wa…
Oh, my! Look what our friend crude oil did!
After a couple of months of respite, when things were starting to look up and many Americans caught a glimpse of pre-pandemic life, COVID-19 is back on the front pages and on top of many people’s minds. With cases rising and the vaccine rollout stallin…
Cycle juxtaposition expresses as range or does the range cause the juxtaposition. This report gives the parameters that will signal change. Meanwhile, there’s still that…
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Monetary policy can be implemented through outright purchases or sales of securities, which permanently changes the size of the Federal Reserve’s System Open Market Account (SOMA) portfolio.
Technology has evolved exponentially in the last 100 years and in this sense we live in extraordinary times. We all are participants in this amazing journey that requires us to adapt constantly […]