Reflation Trade Remains a Good Bet for Now. Try Banks, Small-Caps, and Cyclicals

MarketWatch2021-04-20

Economic growth forecasts are far from peaking. Is the same true for corporate earnings?The Commerce Department last Thursday reported that retail sales rose to a record seasonally adjusted $7.4 ...

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SerenityMie
2021-04-20
SerenityMie
Can try
aalyn
2021-04-20
aalyn
are u trading or investing?
- jamjam:
  both
afarty
2021-04-20
afarty
Comment to my post leh
- MochiMama:
  here you go
Changsheng
2021-04-20
Changsheng
Lol
Lauuu
2021-04-20
Lauuu
LOL
ycwoo
2021-04-20
ycwoo
Like pls

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Survey data reveal a huge mismatch between producers’ inventory levels and incoming orders and backlogs, Morgan Stanley notes, while the latest small-business survey by the National Federation of Independent Businesses shows a record number of firms plan to raise prices.That feedback loop onto corporate profit margins, to the extent companies eat higher input prices instead of immediately passing them onto their customers, may undermine first-quarter  earnings (the reporting season that is currently underway) as well as second-quarter earnings, Darby says.Meanwhile, the Biden administration has proposed raising the corporate tax rate to 28%. That’s down from the 35% before 2017 but above the current 21% rate. In addition, Biden’s plan would lift the minimum tax on foreign profits of U.S. companies to 21% from 10.5%.  Those changes and others would add up to $2 trillion in corporate tax increases over 15 years to pay for his infrastructure plan.What’s the upshot for investors? 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