Recently, Fitch upgraded Las Vegas Sands’ ($LVS) debt from BB+ to BBB-. This is a response to rising cash flow and EBITDA from Macau. This recovery is something DKI has been writing on for more than a year. The Fitch upgrade assumes that Sands continues to pay the current dividend, continues to buy back hundreds … Read more
The Federal Reserve surprised the market by leaving the fed funds rate unchanged and indicating its not inclined to lower at the next meeting in March. The market was disappointed, but a better-than-expected manufacturing index with higher-than-expected pricing plus a seemingly hot labor market support the Fed’s decision. There was huge growth in jobs, but … Read more
This week, we’ll address the following topics: Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve shocks the market by doing exactly what they said they’d do. Manufacturing PMI shows further decline, but still better than expected. Prices up a lot. The employment picture is again better than expected. Does this mean “higher for longer”? Saudi Arabia stops … Read more
I get a lot of questions regarding my weightings in specific names. As a result, I’ve added weightings to the Current Recommendations page. I will update these weightings monthly. As always, should I make changes to any portfolio position, I will post that to the premium blog immediately. Information contained in this report, and … Read more
The Federal Reserve concluded its January meeting by deciding to keep the fed funds rate unchanged. There have been times in the last couple of months where the market put a 60% – 70% probability of a January rate cut. DKI has insisted all along that while we’ve hit the terminal rate (the highest fed … Read more
Every week in January, we’ve been pointing out the inconsistencies we see in macro-economic data. The trend becomes even more pronounced this week with contradictory insight on the economy being provided by the GDP report, the Fed’s preferred inflation metric, and the purchasing manager’s index. The results are so confusing that commentary by S&P Global … Read more
