We’ll dedicate today’s Data section to discussing Fed Chair Powell’s press conference today. Our big picture takeaway: the contours of the US post-pandemic economic recovery are 1) upending the Fed’s…
Month: July 2021
China Stocks, US Gas Usage, Office Occupancy
Three “Data” items today: #1: US urban center office occupancy. We recently came across a dataset from Kastle Systems, a provider of building access monitoring. When you swipe one of their…
Is Tesla A Car Company?, Big Tech Geo Rev Splits
Two “Disruption” topics today: #1: Tesla’s healthy earnings beat this afternoon and GAAP profits of +$1 billion got us to thinking about an age-old question: “As a shareholder, do you…
S&P 500 Earnings: How High?
Two Data items today: #1: How much higher can S&P 500 earnings estimates go? Not to oversimplify, but this is essentially the only question that matters to US stocks and, by…
CNBC: "Earnings season has been great with profit margins holding up in the face of inflation"
Excerpt from CNBC quoting DataTrek co-founder Nick Colas: …. “Despite the effect of the pandemic on profits in early 2020, Nicholas Colas, who analyzes market trends as head of DataTrek,…
2H 2020’s Most Important Datasets
Earlier today we spoke on a panel hosted by Wall Street Horizon about the use of data in the investment process. The other speakers were both from the buyside and companies…