Maria oil and gold both rallied as investors celebrated the Federal Reserves move. And the signal only two more hikes may come this year. Technology stocks among the best performers. Facebook, alphabet, apple, all hitting alltime highs. The Trump Administration releasing its budget proposal. The white house is seeking a 54 billion increase in military and security spending. Its cutting spending for the epa and the state department. The proposal calls for 1. 5 billion for construction of the border wall. It facings significant revisions from the republicanled congress. Mark ruu terks s was reelected. Election in france and later in germany where rightwing candidates are hoping for upset victories. President trump and Angela Merkel met at the white house. But they made nice in front of the world at a joint News Conference friday. Our chief Management Strategy and equity strategists are here. Here we are approaching the end of the First Quarter. Things are looking good. The economy is imp
More activity when it comes to asian markets. They are trending higher in what was a pretty terrible session yesterday. To regulare back coming back online. Take a look at this chart. This is an interesting phenomenon to note. You do not think of china as being a dividend market. But it is in this way. Chinese stocks come in terms of companies that handout dividend, have been outperforming the most since 2013. These players are few and far between. It is one of the stingiest markets globally when it comes to shareholder payouts. We have dividend payout supplies. We had a rally from state owned companies. Rats we were seeing a start of a new trend. But it is part of returning shareholder value. To an employeeg from fidelity who said this trend would likely continue. This is going into the potentially unlucky quarter. We are 30 minutes away from that open in shanghai. Hong kong as well which was often yesterday. Singapore, taiwan, and malaysia is just coming online. Sydney where it was n
Quote weve got a powerful Nuclear Deterrent already in on our hands, and we certainly will not keep our arms crossed in the face of a u. S. Preemptive strike. North korea is the only country to cry out Nuclear Tests since 1998. Pakistan conducting two tests in 1998, india one in 1998, china one in 1996, france in 96 as well. Chinas foreign minister responding to the provocations by urging both the United States and north korea to, quote, refrain from inflammatory or threatening statements. Apparently, the word didnt get coto pyongyang, and the United States is responding with a show of force. The powerful Aircraft Carrier Carl Vinson Strike group is rushing to get on station in the sea of japan off the korean peninsula. It is scheduled to arrive in that region around april 24th. Vice president mike pence also scheduled to be in seoul, south korea, by tomorrow rather, sunday to kick off a tenday trip to asiapacific countries. This has been a busy week for the Trump Administration, its o
Quote weve got a powerful Nuclear Deterrent already in on our hands, and we certainly will not keep our arms crossed in the face of a u. S. Preemptive strike. North korea is the only country to cry out Nuclear Tests since 1998. Pakistan conducting two tests in 1998, india one in 1998, china one in 1996, france in 96 as well. Chinas foreign minister responding to the provocations by urging both the United States and north korea to, quote, refrain from inflammatory or threatening statements. Apparently, the word didnt get coto pyongyang, and the United States is responding with a show of force. The powerful Aircraft Carrier Carl Vinson Strike group is rushing to get on station in the sea of japan off the korean peninsula. It is scheduled to arrive in that region around april 24th. Vice president mike pence also scheduled to be in seoul, south korea, by tomorrow rather, sunday to kick off a tenday trip to asiapacific countries. This has been a busy week for the Trump Administration, its o
Quote weve got a powerful Nuclear Deterrent already in on our hands, and we certainly will not keep our arms crossed in the face of a u. S. Preemptive strike. North korea is the only country to cry out Nuclear Tests since 1998. Pakistan conducting two tests in 1998, india one in 1998, china one in 1996, france in 96 as well. Chinas foreign minister responding to the provocations by urging both the United States and north korea to, quote, refrain from inflammatory or threatening statements. Apparently, the word didnt get coto pyongyang, and the United States is responding with a show of force. The powerful Aircraft Carrier Carl Vinson Strike group is rushing to get on station in the sea of japan off the korean peninsula. It is scheduled to arrive in that region around april 24th. Vice president mike pence also scheduled to be in seoul, south korea, by tomorrow rather, sunday to kick off a tenday trip to asiapacific countries. This has been a busy week for the Trump Administration, its o