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Retail Sales Preview: A Drop To End The Year, And It''s All Downhill From Here
03:00am, Friday, 14'th Jan 2022 Zero Hedge
Retail Sales Preview: A Drop To End The Year, And It''s All Downhill From Here Now that even Blackrock is echoing our warning that central banks - powerless to fight supply-driven inflation - could hike right into a recession and beyond, the next question is what is the best leading or coincident indicator showing the state of the US economy. A good place to start is spending of the US consumer, responsible for 70% of US GDP, and a good indicator of that is retail sales, the same retail sales that have been running some 22% above trend from pre-covid levels even as payrolls remain dismally lower. Conveniently we get the next retail sales report tomorrow morning, where consensus expects to see sequential growth if modestly slowing, with the December print up just 0.1% down from a 0.3% increase in the previous month , and a 0.3% increase in core retail sales. Unfortunately for the Fed, and all those expecting the current burst of artificial, stimmy-driven growth to continue, the latest credit and debit card spending data from Bank of America suggest a far bigger slowdown in December retail sales: as summarized in the chart below, actual data shows a -1.3% drop in retail sales, a -1.6% drop in retail sales ex autos, and a -2.0% drop in retail sales ex-autos and gas.
Good News for Bank of America: Big Banks are Great Again
07:47pm, Thursday, 13'th Jan 2022 InvestorPlace
InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips A slow rise in interest rates will be great for Bank of America stock in 2022. A rapid rise, however, might mean trouble. The post Good News for Bank of America: Big Banks are Great Again appeared first on InvestorPlace . More From InvestorPlace Stock Prodigy Who Found NIO at $2 Says Buy THIS Now Man Who Called Black Monday: Prepare Now. #1 EV Stock Still Flying Under the Radar Interested in Crypto? Read This First
8 Outstanding Tech Hardware Stocks BofA Says to Buy Now
05:13pm, Thursday, 13'th Jan 2022 24/7 Wall street
BofA Securities has named these eight stocks as its top picks in the personal computing and laptop hardware industry.
Bank of America sees 144% upside on this specialty retailer
02:27pm, Thursday, 13'th Jan 2022 Seeking Alpha
Bank of America walks away from an ICR meeting with JOANN (JOAN) execs impressed with the retailer''s growth potential. Read more.
Retail And Hedge Funds Bought The Dip
11:40pm, Wednesday, 12'th Jan 2022 Zero Hedge
Retail And Hedge Funds Bought The Dip There was a bit of confusion earlier this week when just as JPMorgan head of global strategy, Marko Kolanovic, was telling one set of bank clients to " buy the dip " ( even as his boss Jamie Dimon was predicting a dramatic and risk swoon-inducing tightening in financial conditions, expecting more than 4 rate hikes) , another veteran JPMorgan advisor, Bob Michele, who is the asset management group''s fixed-income chief, said just the opposite and urged the bank''s clients to "hide in cash", warning that the Fed put could be as much as 30% lower in the S&P: The Fed would let the markets drop much further if their primary concern was battling inflation, Michele said . The strike of any put is likely to be declines of 15%30% in equities, not 2%3%. And while Michele may well be right, it is now clear that most retail and hedge fund investors agreed with Kolanovic, and rushed to buy the dip both last week around the time of the uberhawkish FOMC Minutes, and in the days following, while institutional investors were actively selling their holdings.
3 Warren Buffett-Approved Dividend Stocks to Buy
06:50pm, Wednesday, 12'th Jan 2022 InvestorPlace
InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Buffetts success might not ever be duplicated, but that doesnt mean lessons from his experience arent of importance. Owning shares of companies with firmly entrenched business models can be an excellent way to build wealth. Apple, Bank of America, and Coca-Cola are three of the four largest holdings within Buffetts investment portfolio. The post 3 Warren Buffett-Approved Dividend Stocks to Buy appeared first on InvestorPlace . More From InvestorPlace Stock Prodigy Who Found NIO at $2 Says Buy THIS Now Man Who Called Black Monday: Prepare Now. #1 EV Stock Still Flying Under the Radar Interested in Crypto? Read This First
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03:30pm, Wednesday, 12'th Jan 2022 Kwhen FinanceSolana could take market share from ethereum, BofA analyst says
02:55pm, Wednesday, 12'th Jan 2022 Seeking Alpha
Solana (SOl-USD), the fifth largest cryptocurrency by market cap, could potentially take market share from the second largest digital token, ethereum (ETH-USD), Bank of America…
Bank Of America Will Eliminate Non-Sufficient Funds Fees And Cut $35 Overdraft Fees To $10
10:05pm, Tuesday, 11'th Jan 2022 Zero Hedge
Bank Of America Will Eliminate Non-Sufficient Funds Fees And Cut $35 Overdraft Fees To $10 Wellthis is one way to throw another stimmy to the middle and lower class. Keeping pace with similar policies being put in place by other banks, Bank of America announced this week that it is going to eliminate charges for non-sufficient funds on its customers accounts and reduce its overdraft fees. The move comes amidst outcry from Senators like Elizabeth Warren, who has spoken out against the fees, claiming they snatch billions from struggling families". Big banks raked in billions from this abusive practice during the pandemic, Warren has said. As a result, banks like Capital One and Ally have cut their fees in recent months. For Bank of America, non-sufficient funds fees are going to be eliminated starting next month, according to a Tuesday report by Bloomberg . Overdraft fees will also be reduced from $35 to $10 starting in May. The bank, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, also said it is going to eliminate transfer fees associated with its Balance Connect for overdraft protection service.
Paul Tudor Jones Warns Of "Major Shift" That Will Have Serious "Consequences" For Markets
07:53pm, Tuesday, 11'th Jan 2022 Zero Hedge
Paul Tudor Jones Warns Of "Major Shift" That Will Have Serious "Consequences" For Markets Last time Paul Tudor Jones made news on CNBC, the longtime macro manager proclaimed that the looming inflationary wave - still incipient at the time - would create serious ructions in both markets and the real economy. Fast forward a few months, and with the S&P 500 headed for what would be the longest losing streak of the COVID era, the network brought PTJ back for an interview ahead of Fed Chair Jerome Powell''s nomination hearing. The former Tudor Investment chief said Tuesday morning that the trades that performed the best during the pandemic would likely soon tumbled back to earth. "Clearly all the #inflation trades of the pandemic era are going to be challenged right now," says @ptj_official on #crypto #bitcoin . "The things that performed the best since March of 2020 are going to probably perform the worst as we go through this tightening cycle." pic.twitter.com/paOXucYG2B Squawk Box (@SquawkCNBC) January 11, 2022 Put another way: investors will likely shun "stay at home" tech stocks to crypto while long-suffering deep value names might finally have their moment in the spotlight. "The things that performed the best since March of 2020 are going to probably perform the worst in this tightening cycle," he said. [] "We''re getting ready to see a major shift and it''s going to have a lot of consequences for a variety of asset prices," he said. [...] "Clearly, all the inflation trades of the pandemic area are going to be challenged right now," the Tudor Investment CIO added.
Rising wages are the biggest threat to earnings and ''corporate misery'' is correlated to higher labor costs, Bank of America says
06:16pm, Tuesday, 11'th Jan 2022 Business Insider Markets
"We see risk to consensus margin expectations in 2022," said BofA as the fourth-quarter earnings season gets underway.
Bank of America to Reduce Overdraft Fees to $10
02:44pm, Tuesday, 11'th Jan 2022 The Wall Street Journal
The lender said it would reduce overdraft fees to $10 from $35 beginning in May and would eliminate nonsufficient-funds fees in February.
Bank of America eliminates bounced check fee and cuts overdraft charges
02:22pm, Tuesday, 11'th Jan 2022 CNN
Fees for bounced checks or lacking enough money in your account could soon be a thing of the past.
BofA''s Mayo sees banks'' net interest income growth at best in three decades (NYSE:USB)
01:43pm, Tuesday, 11'th Jan 2022 Seeking Alpha
The Federal Reserve''s latest bank loan data reinforces Bank of America Securities'' "NII [net interest income] to the sky" theme for U.S
Bank of America reduces overdraft fees, ends non-sufficient fund fees
12:50pm, Tuesday, 11'th Jan 2022 Seeking Alpha
Bank of America (BAC) joins a raft of other banks that are either reducing or eliminating overdraft fees for its customers as they seek to improve customer loyalty at a time when
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