{"id":36886,"date":"2016-08-17T03:22:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T07:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=36886"},"modified":"2016-09-20T16:32:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T20:32:52","slug":"dhunplugged-325-dont-raise-the-bridge-lower-the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/17\/dhunplugged-325-dont-raise-the-bridge-lower-the-river\/","title":{"rendered":"DHUnplugged #325 – Don\u2019t Raise the Bridge, Lower The River"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that central banks are starting to get the point that more of the same is not working, they are looking to change their targets.\"raisebridge\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Markets slip from all-time highs as China and U.S. economic data softens.<\/p>\n

Inflation tame, GDP slow, just another day at the eco-office.<\/p>\n

Many of the well-known hedge funds are dumping Apple (AAPL) while Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is buying.<\/p>\n

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Market volumes are anemic, but buyers still pushing in as they are in TINA mode. T<\/strong>HERE I<\/strong>S N<\/strong>O A<\/strong>LTERNATIVE<\/p>\n

Twitter (TWTR) – Was this genius? Twitter in talks to have Twitter on Apple TV… With NFL stream does that mean that Apple TV will have NFL streaming?
\n– Is this end run around NFL? Stock now over $20 \/share…
\n— Twitter Inc. is offering about a quarter of the space at its San Francisco headquarters complex for sublease, adding to a growing amount of excess offices<\/a> available in the city as the technology industry cools.<\/p>\n

About 78,800 square feet (7,320 square meters) is listed for sublease on the seventh floor of 1355 Market St., a renovated 1930s furniture mart, and 104,850 square feet is available along three floors in an adjacent building at One Tenth St., according to marketing materials from Cresa, a commercial real estate firm.<\/p>\n

GoPro (GPRO) share on the move since their latest earnings announcement. Up ~ 50% since the lows in July. Sustainable? Chart looks as if there are some open air levels that could continue to squeeze shorts.<\/p>\n

Twilio (TWLO) – Recent IPO – UP UP UP – \u00a0 See chart<\/p>\n

Twilio Chart<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t raise the bridge – Lower the River….Fed’s Williams says considering raising or replacing 2% inflation target; reiterates need for fiscal policies; says central banks should target nominal GDP not inflation (More dovish than he has been as he discusses removing the 2% inflation target, suggesting the Fed is content with overshooting this target to drive growth)<\/p>\n

U.S. consumer prices were unchanged in July on falling gasoline costs, but solid gains in industrial output and home building suggested a pickup in economic activity that could allow the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates this year.<\/p>\n

TrimTabs Investment Research reported today that announced stock buybacks in earnings season through Monday, August 15 have fallen to the lowest level since the summer of 2012, averaging just 3.3 for $1.8 billion daily.
\n– \u201cBuyback activity has been disappointing in earnings season,\u201d\u009d said David Santschi, chief executive officer of TrimTabs. \u00a0 \u201cThe reluctance to pull the trigger on share repurchases suggests corporate leaders are becoming less enthusiastic about what they see ahead.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n

** September<\/strong> – murmurs that there may be some backtracking to markets that is followed with an uptick. Several seasonality indicators showing it could be a tough month..<\/p>\n

** At a meeting – heard about the “Year 7 Cycle<\/strong>” – years ending with 7 seem to be tough for markets (2007, 1987, 1977. 1937) – However that is not true – 1987 actually was an up year and so was 2007 – maybe some weaker returns, but this is reason not to get too caught up in just what someone says.<\/p>\n

Japan\u2018s Economic Growth Slows as Business Spending Slumps – GDP misses estimates and now there is even more evidence that the Abeonomics plan is not what it was cracked up to be.
\n– YEN – Falls below $100 in overnight trade Tuesday (99.50) then saw some selling – possible BOJ intervention. Now Yen is up 18% YTD<\/p>\n

In a sign that investors are content with passive investing: Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones on Tuesday laid off roughly five dozen employees, or about 15 percent of his workforce, a person familiar with the moves said on Tuesday, in the wake of poor returns and investor redemptions.
\n— Investors pulled $32.9 billion last month from actively managed U.S. mutual funds that buy domestic stocks in July, the biggest monthly outflow in data going back to 1993, as money continues to move into low-cost passively managed funds, according to Morningstar Inc. About an equal amount, $33.8 billion, went into passive funds that invest in U.S. equities, Chicago-based researcher Alina Lamy of Morningstar said Friday in an interview.<\/p>\n

In the latest blow to Obamacare, Aetna is vastly reducing its presence on the individual exchanges in 2017. The insurer will stop offering policies on the exchanges in 11 of the 15 states where it currently operates, according to a press release it issued Monday evening. Aetna will only sell Obamacare products in Delaware, Iowa, Nebraska and Virginia.<\/p>\n

Volkswagen owners in the United States will receive about $20,000 per car as compensation for the company\u2018s diesel deception. Volkswagen owners in Europe at most get a software update and a short length of plastic tubing.<\/p>\n

Home Depot Inc reported a 9.3 percent rise in quarterly profit and boosted its full-year earnings forecast as it kept a tight lid on costs, while benefiting from a strong U.S. housing market.<\/p>\n

North Korea has an odd Olympic spirit: on Friday the country foiled Samsung\u2018s plan to provide its Summer Olympics athletes with free Galaxy S7 handsets. North Korean athletes were barred from participating. North Korea\u2018s Olympic Committee forbade them from carrying Galaxy S7 units \u201cas they entered Maracana Stadium during the opening ceremony,\u201d\u009d according to Radio Free Asia, and a spokesperson for Samsung later told the publication that a North Korean team manager confiscated the devices. Reportedly, government officials were concerned that the phones would provide a means to \u201caccess the Samsung exhibition, where the company displayed South Korean electronics.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n

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