One portion of our Chicago Quantum Net Score model analysis is to look at the total market capitalization of all the stocks that pass data validation each day. Today, 2,984 stocks made the cut, down daily by 8 then 3, and down 36 from two weeks ago as some stocks…

We spent an hour today live-streaming our analysis of Skillz, ticker: $SKLZ, and bought 1,000 shares during the video. Here is the livestream link. Here are the top 15 observations we have on Skills Inc. based on publicly available information that is easy to find via Google searches. Update: Oct…

One portion of our Chicago Quantum Net Score model analysis is to look at the total market capitalization of all the stocks that pass data validation each day. Today, 2,992 stocks made the cut, down 3 from the day before and down 28 from 2 weeks ago as some stocks…

By Jeffrey Cohen, President and Founder, US Advanced Computing Infrastructure, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois A consultancy and registered investment advisory firm. These are the top forces acting on US stock prices. Overall, when these move, stock prices are moving. These are casual relationships maintained over the past one or five…

We published an update of this page on our website. Free to read, and no sign-up or subscription required to access it. Top 10 US Stock Market Drivers: Forces Pushing Stock Prices Higher https://www.chicagoquantum.com/top-stock-market-drivers.html Hope you like it.

This story explains what BETA is, shares a list of 16 negative BETA stocks for the past year, then shares what it means to investors. BETA is the measure of the systematic risk, or degree to which a stock moved as a multiple of the overall stock market. …

There are around 300 unique categories of spend that are tracked and reported monthly by the US Department of Commerce here. Although total spend increased $144B from June to July 2023, we were interested in where consumers were cutting spending. We downloaded that data in a .csv …

The lower income US consumer is shifting their spend to consumables and increasing theft at the ‘value’ stores designed to serve them. Dollar General issued a press release today, August 31, 2023, which had 19,488 stores as of August 4, 2023. “Same-store sales in the second quarter of 2023 included declines in each of the home, seasonal, and apparel categories, partially offset by growth in the consumables category.”

Consumer spending grew significantly faster than disposable personal income in July. According to the US Commerce Department (here) personal income increased $45B (0.2%) while consumer spending increased $145B (0.8%). Personal savings was 3.5% of disposable personal income, down from 4.2% the previous month. In short, the consumer fell $100B behind in July. — Personal income was flat (0.0%) in July but personal consumption expenditures rose 0.6%, after accounting for inflation.