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[Higgenbotham]

Days With >100 Earnings Reports

Apr 23 - 138
Apr 24 - 167
Apr 25 - 261
Apr 26 - 153
Apr 30 - 228
May 1 - 256
May 2 - 325
May 3 - 115
May 7 - 322
May 8 - 130

https://finance.yahoo.com/calendar/earnings/

[Higgenbotham]

Old post from 4 years ago.

Going back 14 years there was a panic in the stock market on April 14, 2000. This is little known.

Bleak Friday on Wall Street
April 14, 2000

But the statistical standout could be this: the Nasdaq fell more than 25 percent this week, trouncing the 19 percent fall that began Oct. 21, 1987, Black Monday.

The Nasdaq composite index shed 355.61 points, or over 9 percent, to 3,321.17, its biggest one-day decline on record.

http://money.cnn.com/2000/04/14/markets ... s_newyork/

This should say October 19, 1987.

Also mentioned recently is that 2 of 3 Crisis Wars for the US started in mid April - the Civil War on April 12, 1861 and the Revolutionary War on April 19, 1775.

Another.

April 19 (which is 6 months opposite October 19 on the calendar -the date of the 1987 crash) is a date in history that is known for bad things happening. Some recent examples are:
April 19, 1993 Waco Branch Dividian
April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City
April 20, 1999 Columbine
April 20, 2010 BP Oil Spill

[Higgenbotham]

https://www.charismamag.com/video/36219 ... ct-history

[Higgenbotham]

Going back 14 years there was a panic in the stock market on April 14, 2000. This is little known.

Bleak Friday on Wall Street
April 14, 2000

But the statistical standout could be this: the Nasdaq fell more than 25 percent this week, trouncing the 19 percent fall that began Oct. 21, 1987, Black Monday.

The Nasdaq composite index shed 355.61 points, or over 9 percent, to 3,321.17, its biggest one-day decline on record.

http://money.cnn.com/2000/04/14/markets ... s_newyork/

Just to be sure you caught this at the bottom of the April 14, 2000 article:

Strong earnings not enough to attract buyers

Bank stocks, which rallied earlier in the week after some strong earnings reports, were among the biggest losers. J.P. Morgan (JPM: Research, Estimates) slid 9-7/16 to 122-1/16, Citigroup (C: Research, Estimates) lost 4-13/16 to 57-3/4, and American Express (AXP: Research, Estimates) dropped 12-1/4 to 133-3/4.

Solid earnings have lifted individual stocks, but failed to support entire sectors, causing wild sell-offs instead of attracting a surge of bargain hunters. "One stock's good earnings isn't going to be enough to save the day," Larry Wachtel, market analyst with Prudential Securities, told CNNfn's market coverage.

Year 2000 Nasdaq from the all time high at the time.

[Higgenbotham]

then what we already noted.

Martin's comment from April 4.

The expected correction occurred in January so now we await the low. This could possibly be already in but lets wait to see the numbers before jumping.

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/mark ... il-4-2018/

[aeden]

Change is always painful and the Offices knows this as does everyone else. Deception is currency of the rhetorical realms even if they do not admit it as they adjust to the new normal and attempt to destroy what does not fit inside the pale of contrivances in myopic comforts. I also heard they expect the States to turn blue with the goldfish political memory and I did not take that opinion lightly either. The grass roots do see it that way since the actual middle has corrupted itself as we were warned long ago. The recent feedback loop of the pointless propaganda appears to be appraised for what is for the survival to support as in to survive. We posted that picture long ago and will try to find that noted forumed reality when the wall fell in the context of what Sean Mcmeekin recorded in that zone few will even consider to this day. The three step rust belt ruin we survived has given way to the current vicissitude that not all has not abated. The recent point as we worked forward still remains that well over 300 million has been lifted off living on dirt floors and they still cannot accept fair trade to consider free. The actual deplorable are firmly grasped in the forehead with the seal warned of and that the flyovers actual true measurement is the actual residual worth to the last administrations formatted financial abuses seen. The wait and see will suit and buffer the conditional reality as always. As you pointed out the village and useful idiots have not been alive long enough to even fathom what is actually going on. The actual point is the left abused the thinking middle just as Peggy was tossed under the damn bus of read my lips. We understand the problem does not want a solution. Also we fathom the Office was adulterated even before it got in with the Yezidis and that level of common sense to hold that line since they will not even consider a thread of civility in factional regressionism to the times. The into July window appears to be what is was said to be since we know what rules the mind that runs the body.

This opinion pretty much sums up the upcoming aggregate earning reports you forward H.
Mind you not my opinion but sums up the current consensus in percentages of change ---
Tariffs are a way of manipulating the market. If you're a politician, you know ahead of time which things will go up in price, you pass a word to your friends, so they could stock up either on physical product, futures, or maybe set up short positions against companies you know will suffer when input costs rise. I bet there's going to be a lot more congress millionaires after this trade war. It's all bullshit. Nobody cares about us. Politicians are stuffing their pockets by inventing rules and charging a premium on movement of goods that they do not produce. Fuck both sides.

As we know from Rothbard that attributed Mises:
The free market, therefore, transmutes the jungle's destructive competition for meager subsistence into a peaceful co-operative competition in the service of one's self and others. In the jungle, some gain only at the expense of others. On the market, everyone gains. It is the market — the contractual society — that wrests order out of chaos, that subdues nature and eradicates the jungle, that permits the "weak" to live productively … in a regal style compared to the life of the "strong" in the jungle. Furthermore, the market, by raising living standards, permits man the leisure to cultivate the very qualities of civilization that distinguish him from the brutes.

The last regime of asset strippers and political holdovers do not even pretend to alleviate our actual condition.
Border issues are always border issues since the gatekeeper has the duty to assure lawful commerce.
The left coast appears hesitant to provide border security as it negates any civil discourse to why do you support illegal activity
thus you are the actual illegal activity fomenting civil dissent in deed.
As my Wife forwarded other than biblical illiteracy and actual economic illiteracy is the new normal as always.
I did remind her I have no issue stepping over a drunk outside the shelter that maintained the sobriety rule
as two others who just happened to need shelter that evening. It was Mother and child as conveyed years ago.
We just did the dishes and swept the floors and went home seeing what is, and what needed to be.
Time to time I have Her send a check when the budget permits. Lately her work includes for some years now has been elderly
care and support services to them.

Anyways, http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/envi ... cle/430511
You can see the level of avarice that permeates the discourse of what is.
As it was said the Japanese will wait 500,000 years for the area to heal itself. The other zone it will be forever.
It does beg the question of where do we draw the line?
They do not even pretend to care about themselves no way you can reason with it as they embrace its impact on to many levels.

As we discussed as a Family the avalanche is the substances are so abused and so entrenched the term is advanced as porosity of the brain
since the center to treat are already so damaged nothing can be done. Making me pay more capital will not cure the current political or social attitude. The shortage of clinical technicians is seen and one more year for one in clinicals. If I remember correct twenty one started and they are down to around a dozen or so who can survive the actual rigor of the program. They have no clue what is, or what is coming. You think not having a weapon is a social issue you are past deranged.

As we remember States rights interfere with Family values in the States.

Although the South would have preferred any honorable compromise to the fratricidal war which has taken place, she now accepts in good faith its constitutional results, and receives without reserve the amendment which has already been made to the constitution for the extinction of slavery. That is an event that has been long sought, though in a different way, and by none has it been more earnestly desired than by citizens of Virginia. In other respects I trust that the constitution may undergo no change, but that it may be handed down to succeeding generations in the form we received it from our forefathers. The desire I feel that the Southern states should possess the good opinion of one whom I esteem as highly as yourself, has caused me to extend my remarks farther than I intended, and I fear it has led me to exhaust your patience. If what I have said should serve to give any information as regards American politics, and enable you to enlighten public opinion as to the true interests of this distracted country, I hope you will pardon its prolixity. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/828843/posts

I consider my bias to include the border issues since we see what is over there and what is ignored here also. The simple point is you cannot serve two masters so both have to be ignored until order can be instilled within.

[aeden]

https://breggin.com/
https://www.theguardian.com/society/200 ... th.health1

Nancy Pelosi perhaps best sums up the attitude from her side of the divide:
“President Trump continues to use every cynical political trick in the book to ignite anti-immigrant fervor.
His needless militarization of the border is motivated purely by political calculation, not our national security.”

No, thinking democrats already know your Nancy like proclivities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEWZntPhQ4k
I would rather her read a written script than tow the busted brand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05NKZhflDjE not what we got

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Why+are+migra ... =hf&ia=web

The point remains simple that they still do not understand the arc of instability consequences.

Phase two is here and you simply did not want to see it.

The arc of instability ran from Iran to Venezuelan as we knew.

Still, the departure of Latin America's self-proclaimed "Bolivarian" leader is momentous. Since taking office in 1999, Chavez has left a profound—and profoundly negative—mark on the Western hemisphere. His stewardship has seen the rejuvenation of a corrosive vision of "21st century socialism" built around ruinous economic practices and opposition to the United States. Yet it is Chavez's role on another front, in facilitating the entry of the Islamic Republic of Iran into the Western hemisphere, which ranks as one of his most notorious accomplishments.
To be sure, Iran's regional inroads date back to the mid-1980s, when Iran established its first embassy in the region in Havana and mobilized its proxy Hezbollah to set up shop in the tri-border area where Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay intersect. But the Islamic Republic's presence in Latin America has expanded exponentially under Chavez.

Ask any thinking Democrat why the Saudi know Lebanon must currently hold.

Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire;
and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. 1 Corinthians 3:13

[aeden]

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04- ... men-stocks

Book four will get adjusted since they are somehow confused how boxes are checked along the way
as He recalls the iniquity of fathers to the third and fourth generation.
Half of the problem only appears when the product does not meet specification.
Doing nothing as some suggest rests on that merit alone.

http://www.spurgeongems.org/vols34-36/chs2009.pdf

In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing, but in adversity God is seen, and that
is a greater blessing. Sanctified adversity quickens our spiritual sensitiveness. Sorrow after sorrow will
wake up the spirit, and it will infuse into it a delicacy of perception which, perhaps, does not often come
to us in any other way. I purposely say, “Perhaps,” for I believe that some choice saints are favored to
reach it by smoother ways, but I think they are very few. spurgeon

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-roo ... ars-soros/

[Higgenbotham]

At its core, investment is about valuation. It’s about purchasing a stream of expected future cash flows at a price that’s low enough to result in desirable total returns, at an acceptable level of risk, as those cash flows are delivered over time...

At its core, speculation is about fluctuations in price, regardless of valuation...Unfortunately, if a material portion of one’s life must be lived amid episodes of reckless speculation that repeatedly collapse into heaps of ash, one is forced to make a choice. One choice is to imagine that speculation is actually investment, which is what most investors inadvertently do.

https://www.hussmanfunds.com/comment/mc180406/

Any trader who does not realize they are gambling does not have a clear picture of what they are doing.

[John]

> At its core, investment is about valuation. It’s about purchasing
> a stream of expected future cash flows at a price that’s low
> enough to result in desirable total returns, at an acceptable
> level of risk, as those cash flows are delivered over time...

> At its core, speculation is about fluctuations in price,
> regardless of valuation...Unfortunately, if a material portion of
> one’s life must be lived amid episodes of reckless speculation
> that repeatedly collapse into heaps of ash, one is forced to make
> a choice. One choice is to imagine that speculation is actually
> investment, which is what most investors inadvertently do.

https://www.hussmanfunds.com/comment/mc180406/

> Any trader who does not realize they are gambling does not have a
> clear picture of what they are doing.

That's a great article, and ties together what happened in 1929
with today.