Chad Hudson

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• Index Investing's Free Lunch

  Published 05 December 2002 | viewed 7,548 times

  Recent economic data is showing that the consumer is showing signs of tiring, or just running out of stuff to buy. Auto sales fell 12.7%…

• The Turning Retail Tide

  Published 21 November 2002 | viewed 3,045 times

  Most economists expect the refinance boom to stimulate consumer spending, especially during the critical holiday shopping season. Part of the theory includes the four to…

• CEOs Get Gloomy

  Published 13 November 2002 | viewed 2,992 times

  CEOs across the county have turned into a gloomy bunch. A survey conducted by The Business Roundtable "raises serious concerns for America's workers, companies and…

• The Trifecta Bet

  Published 06 November 2002 | viewed 3,338 times

  The Republicans took back control of the Senate with the mid-term elections (poor Jeffords). The quick analysis was centered on the possibility of easing the…

• Confidence Dives Off A Cliff

  Published 30 October 2002 | viewed 3,172 times

  Consumer confidence fell 14.3 points to 79.4, a level that has not been seen since November 1993 when the economy was coming out of the…

• Beating Lowered Estimates

  Published 16 October 2002 | viewed 3,264 times

  Well, last week I said I expected volatility to continue, and I was not disappointed. If I were a betting man, I'd bet that Proctor…

• No Boundaries - To Bond Spreads

  Published 09 October 2002 | viewed 3,161 times

  (UNEDITED) Wednesday's Heard on the Street column in the Wall Street Journal discussed the recent trading in Ford bonds. The article mentioned that some dealers…

• Reality Bites

  Published 03 October 2002 | viewed 3,655 times

  (UNEDITED) During the past couple months, Wall Street has been hoping the economy will turn around to jump start earnings. Now that earnings warnings are…

• Evidence Of A Slowdown Mounts

  Published 26 September 2002 | viewed 3,303 times

  Sorry for any inconvenience resulting from the delay in publishing this weeks Mid-Week analysis. Next week's will also be published on Thursday. Evidence pointing to…

• Preannouncements Take Center Stage

  Published 18 September 2002 | viewed 2,908 times

  Last week kicked off the pre-announcement period. Honeywell was one the first to announce it would not meet analysts' earnings estimates. During the conference call,…

• Remembering and Honoring

  Published 11 September 2002 | viewed 3,116 times

  With everyone's mind focused on remembering the victims and honoring the heroes of September 11, I will keep this week's commentary brief. During the stock…

• Is There An Auto Bubble?

  Published 04 September 2002 | viewed 3,511 times

  Auto sales went through the roof during August. Car sales jumped 3.3% to 18.7 million in August from July's 18.1 million and 14% from a…

• Durable Goods vs. Consumer Confidence

  Published 28 August 2002 | viewed 3,462 times

  Tuesday's release of July's durable goods orders grew 8.7% from June  was better than all economists estimated. The median estimate called for growth of 1.5%.…

• Is The Spending Spree Over?

  Published 21 August 2002 | viewed 3,151 times

  The notion that the U.S is in a housing bubble is starting to get some attention, but too many economists and officials fail to see the…

• Is The Consumer Rolling Over?

  Published 17 August 2002 | viewed 3,221 times

  During the past couple of weeks, there have been a significant amount of evidence released indicating the economy is much weaker than practically everyone thought.…

• Recovery Faces Headwinds

  Published 07 August 2002 | viewed 3,219 times

  (UNEDITED) According to Wall Street, earnings for the second quarter were pretty good. Eighty-five percent of the S&P 500 companies met or exceeded analysts' estimates.…

• Roller Coasters on Wall Street

  Published 24 July 2002 | viewed 3,409 times

  Earnings season is now in full force. For the most part earnings are okay - not stellar - but not horrible. Interestingly, forward guidance seems…

• A Pending Consumer Slowdown

  Published 17 July 2002 | viewed 3,431 times

  Second quarter earnings reports are flooding in. This gives us an opportunity to observe how the economy is doing through the eyes of companies at…

• Capx Spending Gets Pushed Out

  Published 10 July 2002 | viewed 3,209 times

  This week kicks off earnings season for the second quarter, but really heats up next week. So far there have been few earnings surprises. However,…

• Are Real Estate Appraisers Former Internet Analysts?

  Published 03 July 2002 | viewed 3,460 times

  On Tuesday, Challenger, Gray & Christmas announced job cuts increased 11.5% in June from May. Not surprisingly, telecom and computers accounted for the majority of…