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• Mexico's oil company is losing more than a billion dollars a year to cartels — and its own employees are helping them out

  15-04-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mexico's oil company is losing more than a billion dollars a year to cartels — and its own employees are helping them outSEE ALSO: Violence against politicians is increasing ahead of Mexico's election — but some cartel leaders are now promising safety
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• The Rock's 'Rampage' beats out 'A Quiet Place' to top the box office — and does even better overseas (TWX)

  15-04-2018 17:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Rampage" wins the domestic box office with an estimated $34.5 million.
  A big reason for that is because of the movie's star, Dwayne Johnson, who is one of the few actors in today's Hollywood who bring audiences to the theaters. 
  And he draws even bigger bucks overseas. In China alone the movie took in $55 million.
  "A Quiet Place" earned a solid second place finish putting its total domestic earnings to $99.6 million (it was made for $17 million).Dwayne Johnson proved this weekend that he r
  
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• The market's most outspoken bear sees recent turbulence fueling his forecast of a 60% stock drop — and says it's too late to get out

  15-04-2018 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  John Hussman, the outspoken investor and former professor who has been predicting a stock market crash, has recalibrated how he looks at his forecast.
  Recent market volatility resulting from rising trade-war fears has poured fuel on the fire for his latest bearish proclamation.
  Hussman not only sees stocks plummeting more than 60%, but he also issues the stark warning that there's very little investors can do to avoid major pain.
  John Hussman knows that when he makes his extremely bearish stock
  
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• The volatility that rocked stocks was just the beginning — and 2 markets are at the epicenter of impending chaos, SocGen says -

  15-04-2018 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spikes in volatility, such as the one that occurred in February, are typically accompanied by aftershocks, according to Societe Generale's strategists.
  They are forecasting a "hot summer" for the markets, with two assets most at risk.
  The volatility that rocked global markets in February is set to return this summer, a strategist at Societe Generale says.
  The stock market's slump that month prompted the largest one-day spike in the Cboe Volatility Index (known as the VIX), as traders who had bou
  
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• Trump's shift on a massive deal is the latest example of his confounding trade policy

  15-04-2018 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  President Donald Trump directed officials to look into getting the US back into the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would represent a significant personal reversal.
  The TPP flip is the latest in a series of confusing trade policy posturing by the president.
  The uncertainty has real consequences for the US economy and global markets.
  President Donald Trump's tendency to announce sudden changes in trade policy has confused investors and made experts question whether the president actually has a l
  
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• ALBERT EDWARDS: The market is overlooking an 'extreme' situation that could spell doom for stocks

  15-04-2018 15:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Data released on Tuesday should have global investors worried, says the Societe Generale strategist Albert Edwards.
  It's just the latest negative proclamation from Edwards, who has long been one of Wall Street's staunchest bears.
  While you were watching the latest developments in President Donald Trump's global trade war threats — or perhaps in his latest tiff with Russia — Albert Edwards was focusing on something else entirely.
  The outspoken Societe Generale global strategist was wa
  
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• JPMorgan says stocks are about to shatter a postcrisis record — and most of Wall Street could be caught off guard

  15-04-2018 14:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  JPMorgan is super-bullish on first-quarter earnings.The firm's equity strategists, and others, are counting on record-breaking results to propel the market after a volatile start to the year.JPMorgan's equity strategists are very bullish on first-quarter earnings.
  In fact, they're so bullish that they expect "companies to deliver strongest growth of this cycle with room for estimates to be revised higher," according to a note on Thursday.
  "We expect S&P 500 to deliver 4-5% earnings surprise
  
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• One Wall Street firm just made a big change to its outlook — and it perfectly encapsulates the challenges ahead for markets

  15-04-2018 14:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  As the stock market has been whipsawed in recent weeks, traders have wondered if any long-term signals are being flashed.
  A Wall Street firm just made two major changes to its equity outlook, and the rationale behind the moves match up with some challenges it expects going forward.
  As an investor, when you see a major shift coming, it's best to get out ahead of it.
  That seems to be the thinking behind the most recent investment recommendations made by the equity strategy team at RBC Capital Mark
  
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• BANK OF AMERICA: A wildly successful stock-trading strategy is no longer working — and it signals that a bubble has burst

  15-04-2018 13:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  An extremely successful and long-standing stock market strategy is no longer working, Bank of America Merrill Lynch says.
  The firm argues its failure is symptomatic of a broader shift taking place in markets — one that could mean far more volatility.
  For much of the nine-year bull market, the stock-trading strategy known as "buy the dip" was basically synonymous with "free money."
  That's because, following any period of sharp weakness, traders could simply scoop up shares at bargain prices
  
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• These 13 stocks will see explosive sales growth that will help them crush earnings season, Goldman Sachs says

  15-04-2018 12:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  The first-quarter earnings season is shaping up to be one of the most hotly anticipated in recent memory as the market seeks a bright spot amid multiple headwinds.
  While some investors may be focused on bottom-line profits, Goldman Sachs is more interested in stocks generating high sales growth, and it has identified 13 S&P 500 companies that fit the bill.
  The coming first-quarter earnings season is one of the most hyped in recent memory.
  It's supposed to offer a pick-me-up for a market that
  
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• MORGAN STANLEY: We’re already seeing the 'true tell' of the start of a bear market

  15-04-2018 12:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Morgan Stanley's US equity strategists have identified early signs that the nine-year old bull market may be coming to a close.
  Although talk of the end of the cycle evokes a 'sell everything' response, their forecast is for 10-20% price swings over the next year or two — not the wipe-out scenario bears have been calling for.
  If Morgan Stanley's US equity strategists are correct, the February sell-off in stocks was a glimpse of things to come.
  In a note on Thursday, the team of strategists
  
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• Sir Martin Sorrell abruptly exits as boss of WPP

  15-04-2018 10:05
  WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell has abruptly stepped down from his role, ending a 33-year career at the company he founded and turned into the biggest agency holding group in the world.
  The decision was announced late last night (14 April) and takes effect immediately. WPP chairman Roberto Quarta will take over as executive chairman until a new CEO is appointed. Mark Read, who leads Wunderman and WPP Digital, and Andrew Scott, WPP’s corporate development director and COO for Europe have been ma
  
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