The Traderszone Network

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Yesterday’s announcement regarding the White House plan on tax reform was a little short on details. 

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For the past few years, Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) has stressed two metrics that management said best described their progress in growing the streaming business. Rather than focusing on traditional figures like earnings and revenue, CEO Reed Hastings and his team emphasized subscriber gains and profitability in the core U.S. market.

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The last time American consumers were this confident about the national economy was August 2001.

As a reminder, the market is not the economy… and a rising economic confidence on the heels of rising stock prices does not ‘forecast’ the economy…

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“The reason the nationalist camp is rising is we somehow forgot to compensate the losers from globalization, so this is the backlash.”

Hello all –

The subject says it all, just curious if anyone has a promo code for Trade Ideas that is currently valid?

I used that program day in and day out about 10 years ago, but changed strategies since (more swing trading, less daytrading). However, I’m in the process of getting back into the swing of things with daytrading (no pun intended) so I thought I would reach out here to see if anyone was aware of a promo code.

Thanks for your time,

– jm

In their quarterly outlook released yesterday the Bank of Japan downgraded inflation forecasts.
National CPI y/y for March 0.2%
– expected 0.3%, prior was 0.3%
National CPI y/y excluding Fresh Food for March 0.2%. This is referred to as ‘core’ inflation for Japan.

More Japan data (the inflation results are on a separate post)
Overall Household Spending for March, -1.3% y/y. Beats the February data, but still a miss, quite a big one, on what was expected. This indicator has not been a good one for the Japanese economy for many months & years