Economic Outlook

Buybacks Are Keeping The Bull Market Alive

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Bulls can celebrate the U.S. economy and seeming zero impact (so far) of the U.S.-China trade war, but it’s not necessarily invincibility that’s keep this bull run chugging along—it might be as simple as lack of supply of shares.

Share shrinkage, or a lack of shares being issued, hit negative territory in 2016, then turned a bit more positive last year, but this year, analysts are expecting low to negative supply, Reuters cited JPMorgan as saying…. CLICK for complete article

Buybacks Are Keeping The Bull Market Alive

lestreet

Bulls can celebrate the U.S. economy and seeming zero impact (so far) of the U.S.-China trade war, but it’s not necessarily invincibility that’s keep this bull run chugging along—it might be as simple as lack of supply of shares.

Share shrinkage, or a lack of shares being issued, hit negative territory in 2016, then turned a bit more positive last year, but this year, analysts are expecting low to negative supply, Reuters cited JPMorgan as saying…. CLICK for complete article

Final Q2 GDP Estimate At 4.2%, Strongest In 4 years

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After bursting higher in second quarter, when according to the first estimate of Q2 GDP, the US economy grew at an annualized 4.1% rate, a number which rose to 4.2% in the second estimate in August, moments ago the BEA reported that according to its final estimate of second quarter GDP, US growth remained unchanged at a 4.2% annualized rate, or technically 4.15% – in line with consensus and still the highest since the summer of 2016 – at a time when the Trump’s $1.5 trillion fiscal stimulus was boosting the US economy…. CLICK for complete article

Final Q2 GDP Estimate At 4.2%, Strongest In 4 years

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After bursting higher in second quarter, when according to the first estimate of Q2 GDP, the US economy grew at an annualized 4.1% rate, a number which rose to 4.2% in the second estimate in August, moments ago the BEA reported that according to its final estimate of second quarter GDP, US growth remained unchanged at a 4.2% annualized rate, or technically 4.15% – in line with consensus and still the highest since the summer of 2016 – at a time when the Trump’s $1.5 trillion fiscal stimulus was boosting the US economy…. CLICK for complete article

The Death of High Flying VC Funds

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Young founding partners debuting change-the-world funds were irresistible for chroniclers of the venture world, who too often had been forced to chat with balding and aging managing directors while hitting the links at resplendent country clubs. Everything was going to change in the venture world, and here was a new guard of progressive-thinking talent that would transform Silicon Valley forever.

Then it all came crashing down. CLICK for complete article