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☆ How to generate some return in beaten-down Starbucks using options following its earnings rout
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-02 | by ( Michael Khouw | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Starbucks (SBUX) on Wednesday traded nearly seven times the 20-day average equity volume and 10 times the average daily options volume as the shares fell nearly 16%. It was the fourth-worst trading day for Starbucks since the company's IPO in 1992. And with respect to China specifically, Starbucks said the recovery there has been "choppy" with intense price wars. Starbucks reported $8.56 billion in second-quarter revenue, which represents a year-on-year decline of 1.8%. Don't try to catch a falling knife This presents a significant challenge for an investor in Starbucks stock.

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☆ James Carville says Biden's poll numbers have gotten 'a little bit better' but that the president won't 'replicate' 2020
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-31 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

James Carville told MSNBC's Ari Melber that Democrats face a major engagement issue this year. "We're not going to replicate the 2020 coalition," he said, pointing to polling struggles with non-white men. Carville has been vocal that the party isn't adequately reaching out to males. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementDemocratic strategist James Carville during a recent MNSBC interview said he didn't think President Joe Biden would be able to reassemble his 2020 electoral coalition in the November election.

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☆ James Carville says RFK Jr. will harm Trump more than Biden, but he 'worries' about Cornel West and Jill Stein
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-31 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

James Carville said RFK Jr.'s White House bid could be more of a drag on Trump than Biden. RFK Jr. said last week that his candidacy would be a "spoiler" for both Biden and Trump. Related storiesIn recent polling of three-way matchups between Biden, Trump, and Kennedy Jr., the former president is often slightly ahead. "Our campaign is a spoiler all right," Kennedy Jr. said during an event last week welcoming Shanahan to the ticket. Carville, who warned about cracks in the Democratic Party's electoral foundation, also expressed concern about the presidential campaigns of Cornel West and Jill Stein.

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☆ Here's why James Carville believes Biden's been 'the best president that Black America's ever had'
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

James Carville favorably compared Biden's record for Black Americans to that of Obama and Clinton. In April 2023, the Black unemployment rate fell to 4.8%, the lowest level on record. "He's been demonstrably the best president that Black America's ever had, Clinton and Obama included," Carville said of Biden. AdvertisementIn April 2023, the Black unemployment rate fell to 4.8%, the lowest level on record for Black citizens. And for Black Americans in the workforce, weekly pre-tax earnings surged 24.8% from Q1 in 2020 through the end of 2023, according to CNBC.

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☆ James Carville says Democrats are losing support among men due to 'preachy females' who drive the party's culture: 'The message is too feminine'
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

James Carville told the Times that "preachy females" have chased some men from the Democratic Party. "The message is too feminine," he told Times columnist Maureen Dowd. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementIn a freewheeling conversation with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, longtime Democratic strategist James Carville suggested that the party's struggles with male voters are driven by "preachy females" who aren't speaking to their concerns.

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☆ Opinion | James Carville, the Cajun Who Can’t Stop Ragin’
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“I get a $25 champagne and four plastic flutes,” he recalled, “and I said to the students: ‘All right. You are not going to get out of James Carville’s class unless you know how to properly open a bottle of champagne.’“I said: ‘Here’s what you’re going to do. You don’t pop it like you see in the movies or you’re going to poke somebody’s eye out. Now you’re going to take a dishcloth, and you’re going to execute the classic counterclockwise movement. The bottle is going to go one way; the cork is going to go the other way.

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☆ The Democratic Taboo
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Adam Nagourney | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Democratic Party has had no shortage of argument and dissent over the years. Internal battles and backbiting are part of what it means to be a modern-day Democrat. This has played out on platforms large and small, most recently after Jon Stewart, on his return to his former Comedy Central show after a nine-year hiatus, mocked the “objectively old” President Biden. “Please make it another nine years,” Keith Olbermann, the former MSNBC host, said on X. Prominent Democratic strategists like David Axelrod and James Carville who criticize Biden are facing a barrage of pushback on social media and from the White House — and sometimes, reportedly, from Biden himself.

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☆ Biden’s economic scorecard touts fragile advantage
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Ben Winck | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +11 min

And if the political strategist James Carville was right that “it’s the economy, stupid,” the next several months could make or break Joe Biden’s economic record. As things stand, the current ruler of the free world touts a fragile advantage. Households’ disposable income after adjusting for inflation hit a record $20 trillion in the month that Biden’s measure was approved, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. STUDENT LOANSForgiving swaths of student debt was another of Biden’s campaign promises, but his efforts have so far failed. And with higher interest rates making debt service more expensive, Biden’s spending could come back to bite him on election day.

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☆ Democrats' dilemma: Biden's agenda is popular, but he is not
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Jarrett Renshaw | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

U.S. President Joe Biden steps from Marine One upon his return to the White House in Washington, U.S., November 6, 2023.REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsPHILADELPHIA, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Andrea Singmaster is thankful for President Joe Biden. "I love Joe Biden. The contrast between the popularity of the Biden agenda and the unpopularity of its pitchman, even among some party loyalists, is a major concern for Democrats going into 2024. Biden's approval rating is hovering around 40%, near the lowest level of his presidency, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll. Still, the polls are hastening calls from some Democrats for the Biden campaign to focus less on him and his "Bidenomics" pitch and more on the dangers they say Trump poses.

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☆ Opinion: What Tuesday’s elections can tell us about 2024
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Manav Tanneeru | Opinion John Avlon | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Why should you care about Tuesday’s elections in Ohio, Kentucky, Mississippi and Virginia? The storylines to watch include abortion, disinformation, dirty money and a test of that elusive but essential creature known as the red state Democrat. John Avlon CNNLet’s start with the Buckeye State, where abortion rights are on the ballot. Beshear is also the rare red state Democrat who can connect with rural voters — something Democrats desperately need more of. Meanwhile in Mississippi, there’s another governor’s race that The Washington Post is calling the most competitive in 20 years.

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☆ The case for a career in bond investing
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Felix Martin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

I sensed familiarity with the recent fate of fixed income benchmarks such as Austria’s hundred-year government bond. For this reason, when bond yields are low, the sensitivity of capital prices to inflation and interest rate shocks is high, and vice versa. The appreciating greenback has been a drag on much of the global fixed income universe for the past decade. The real reason to go into fixed income investing, I explained, is that you get to tell governments what to do. Now that the end of monetary anaesthesia has awoken fixed income from its 15-year coma, I told the MBA students, you’ve got your chance.

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☆ Breaking down the complicated and erratic relationship between stocks and bonds
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( Michael Santoli | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

At Friday's close of 4224 on Friday, the S & P 500 is off 8% from the July high, with its equal-weighted version down 11%. .SPX YTD mountain S & P 500 YTD Yet the S & P was also at about the current level on Sept. 22, when the 10-year was a half-percentage-point lower, as well as on June 2, when it was at 3.7%. It's taken as a given in most corners of the investment business that higher rates available on bonds serve mechanically to compress equity valuations. Which is how the stock market finds itself here, with real or incipient breakdowns in regional banks and transportation stocks, the median S & P 500 component down for the year. The S & P 500 has gone on to drop a bit further, rally weakly and then roll back toward a five-month low.

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☆ Biden impeachment saga creates a wild new political twist in an unprecedented election
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Now, his proxies in the House GOP are effectively weaponizing an impeachment inquiry of Biden to try to again destroy Trump’s potential opponent in the next presidential election. Then-Vice President Biden attended two dinners with his son and his business associates in Washington, DC, although one of Hunter’s associates testified that no business was discussed. Biden’s political liabilitiesIn some ways, the White House has a political advantage. CNN’s White House team reported Wednesday that the administration had put into action a counter-impeachment plan even before McCarthy’s announcement. Video Ad Feedback James Carville wants Biden impeachment inquiry.

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☆ Bond vigilantes are 'saddling up.' Here's how concerned investors might take action over the ballooning federal deficit.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-20 | by ( Jason Ma | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Bond vigilantes are "saddling up" again as federal deficits balloon, said market veteran Ed Yardeni. And I think the bond vigilantes are quite concerned about that." Now there are signs they are stirring again as bond yields continue to climb despite signs of cooling inflation. And I think the bond vigilantes are quite concerned about that," he said. In a now-legendary commentary from 1983 titled "Bond Investors Are the Economy's Bond Vigilantes," Yardeni warned, "So if the fiscal and monetary authorities won't regulate the economy, the bond investors will.

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☆ James Carville dismisses concerns that Democrats don't have a strong presidential bench for 2028: 'So many people, it's breathtaking'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

James Carville recently gushed to The Hill about the potential 2028 Democratic presidential bench. "These are some staggeringly talented politicians," Carville said of figures like Josh Shapiro and Wes Moore. And Carville already has his eye on some of the highest-profile Democratic politicians out there. Carville told The Hill that the perception of a large GOP farm team and a small Democratic bench was not the reality that he sees as he envisions a 2028 Democratic primary. "The Democratic bench is really long," Carville added.

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☆ What Older Voters Say About Biden 2024: From ‘He’s Fine’ to ‘Oh, God’
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Katie Glueck | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

“I can’t go on television and say, ‘Let’s not talk about this, let’s pivot to the real issues,’ because people think age is a real issue,” James Carville, 78, the Democratic strategist, said last month. It was top of mind for several people who milled around a community center recently as a canasta game ended in Plantation, Fla.Doreen W., 78, a Democrat who declined to share her last name on the record, citing fear of causing problems for her husband at work, said she hoped Mr. Biden would run again. But she worried about whether he was up to it. “I know how tiring it is for me, and I’m not doing anything but retire,” she said. “I’m aware of his age and I’m concerned about that.”Informed that Mr. Biden was not 78, as she had thought, but 80, she groaned, “Oh, God.”“If I could just keep him at age 80 and active the way he is, I’d be more than happy,” she said.

☆ Powell is leader of the free world – for now
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Lauren Silva Laughlin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +8 min

As former President Donald Trump will attest, Powell will do what he thinks it’s right. This month, Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, a left-wing firebrand, went on TV and called Powell a “dangerous man,” saying she doesn’t think that he should be Fed Chair. CNN television host Jake Tapper asked her if she had told Biden that Powell should be fired. Then Trump called Powell “a golfer who can’t putt, has no touch.” Trump wanted economic growth. Powell resisted and later responded saying that the Fed chair, more than anyone else, needs to be free from political pressures.

☆ Florida no longer looks like a swing state after DeSantis, Rubio lead big Republican wins
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Once considered the nation's biggest swing state, Florida is looking more and more like a Republican stronghold. The state's Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, and Sen. Marco Rubio both glided to victory against their respective Democratic opponents. The number of active registered Republican voters, meanwhile, rose to 5,259,406 in the same period — a gain of more than 150,000. In this month's midterms, older Florida voters came out in droves, while young voters stayed home, NBC's exit polls show. And the GOP extended its gains in the Florida state Legislature, clinching supermajorities in both chambers.

☆ 'Come on, man': Carville pushes back on GOP commentator's reaction to Walker
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-08 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

Democratic strategist James Carville says he was "totally flummoxed" by CNN political commentator Scott Jennings' reaction to reports about Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker.

☆ The Lesson from the U.K. Budget Meltdown: Fear Currencies, Not Bond Markets
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Jon Sindreu | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The U.K. is a large economy with deep capital markets and a widely-owned currency, fears of an unstoppable slide in the pound seem overblown. James Carville should have wished he could be the currency market. The famous 1994 remark by Bill Clinton’s political adviser that he would like to be reincarnated as the bond market encapsulates a widespread perception among investors and officials that, when currencies are left to float freely, soaring public debt becomes the key constraint on government spending. The U.K.’s budget crisis shows why they are wrong.

☆ Biden says the election is a battle against 'MAGA Republicans.' He’s been silent about Democrats elevating them.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Peter Nicholas | Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Carol-Lee-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +9 min

Democrats had been spending millions of dollars in Republican primaries elevating extreme candidates who falsely insist Donald Trump won the 2020 election, in hopes of facing weaker opponents in the general election. The raw political calculus that underpins the Democrats’ midterm election strategy is at odds with President Joe Biden’s core political message that democracy is in peril. Biden appears to have accepted the tradeoff involved: If boosting election-denying candidates saves even a few Democratic congressional seats, it’s worth the risk. NBC News asked the White House what Biden thinks of the practice and whether he’s ever voiced qualms about it. During the 2016 presidential campaign, many Democrats saw Trump as the weakest and, hence, most desirable opponent in the general election.

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