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"This market's refusal to go down on bad news is a sign that something new is afoot, something broader than just the FANG rallies or the mini-bull markets I have talked about every night," the "Mad Money" host said. |
The most important signal, though, was the strength of technology stocks. |
"We have a magnificent tech rally going here, one that we have to talk about because I think it is the real deal and tech is such a huge part of the S&P 500," Cramer said. |
Ever since crude bottomed in mid-February, Cramer has been convinced that oil could easily bounce back to $50 a barrel. That was a bold call to make back when it was in the $30s, but it became a reality on Tuesday when oil closed at $48. |
Unfortunately, stocks in the oil patch may not continue to get a lift from rising oil prices. |
To find out what could be in store for the future of major oil and oil service stocks, Cramer spoke with Robert Moreno, a chartist, publisher ofRightViewTrading.com and colleague of Cramer's at RealMoney.com. |
Back in February, Moreno took a look at the charts and correctly predicted that Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Schlumberger and Pioneer Natural Resources were poised to head higher. However, this time around Moreno believes that the rally in the oil sector is overdone. |
"When Moreno now says the group could be due for a near-term pause or even a pullback, I think we need to take him seriously," the "Mad Money" host said. |
As Cramer tried to determine the valuations for Under Armour, Nike and Foot Locker, he found himself wondering what would happen to the stocks if some of the pro athletes who represent the brands suddenly become losers. |
Would Under Armour's stock get hammered if Stephen Curry suddenly doesn't make it to the finals? |
If the valuation of a company's stock is determined by whether a team wins or loses in the NBA West finals, then count Cramer out. |
"That, in a nutshell, is how I feel right now about the footwear and sports apparel group. I have never seen the cohort in this state of flux, and while opportunities may abound … this group has simply become too hard to reconcile," the "Mad Money" host said. |
One stock that is quickly closing in on an all-time high is Thermo Fisher Scientific, the No. 1 player in the life-science tools business. It creates the lab equipment needed to conduct science and also has a food safety business, diagnostics division and a genomics platform. |
Thermo Fisher reported a strong top- and bottom-line beat at the end of April, with higher-than-anticipated full-year guidance — yet the stock barely budged. That was a signal to Cramer that the stock deserves to go even higher. |
He spoke with Thermo Fisher CEO Marc Casper, who said the company has partnered with the CDC and authorities in Brazil to develop a test for the Zika virus. |
"I think there is so much great research going in the field … I am very encouraged," Casper said. |
And then there was CONSOL Energy, which rebounded so hard it took Cramer's breath away. |
The company produces both coal and natural gas, two commodities that were crushed from the summer of 2014 until this January. Thus, the company lost more than 90 percent of its value over the same period. |
So, is this rebound the real deal? |
While Cramer acknowledged that the management at CONSOL have done an amazing job guiding the company through a difficult time, unfortunately the time to buy the stock was four months ago, not now. |
"At this point, I think you just need to acknowledge that you have missed the move, and let it go," Cramer said. |
Taser International: "I have liked Taser for ages, and I reiterate that I still like it. I know it flew and came back down, but I think it's a good stock." |
Communications Sales & Leasing: "It's got too high of a yield. It makes me want to worry that it shouldn't be a red-flag situation. They shouldn't be that big. If the company wants to come on and talk about it, that's fine. But it's not my cup of tea." |
The public’s views of local job availability continue to improve. Currently, 50% of Americans say there are plenty of jobs available in their communities – the highest number saying that jobs are plentiful in Pew Research Center surveys dating to 2001. |
Since June 2016, the share saying plenty of jobs are available has increased seven percentage points, from 43% to 50%, with virtually all of the change coming among Republicans. Yet in both parties, perceptions of the local job situation are much more positive today than they were three or four years ago. |
However, the public’s brighter outlook on jobs has not been matched by comparable improvement in views of whether people’s incomes are keeping pace with the cost of living. |
Currently, 49% saying their family’s income is falling behind the cost of living, while 40% feel they’re staying about even and just 9% feel like they’re getting ahead. These views are little changed over the past two years, though the share saying they are falling behind financially is lower today than in 2014 or earl... |
The new national survey by Pew Research Center, conducted Oct. 25-30 among 1,504 adults, finds that views of the national economy continue to be much more positive than they were last December, after the presidential election. Currently, 41% rate economic conditions as excellent or good, while 59% say they are only fai... |
The share of Americans viewing current economic conditions as excellent or good is virtually unchanged since February (42%), but higher than last December (31%). Since December, positive views of economic conditions have surged among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents (from 14% then to 57% today), while de... |
By contrast, economic optimism, which also rose in the months after the election, has subsided since then. Currently, 32% expect economic conditions to be better a year from now, 29% say conditions will be worse, with 37% saying conditions will about the same as today. In February, somewhat more (38%) thought the econo... |
For many, it’s too early to attribute the economy’s overall performance – good or bad – to Donald Trump’s economic policies. Less than a year into his administration, 49% say his policies have not had much of an effect on economic conditions; of those who do see an impact, more think his policies have made the economy ... |
Partisans take starkly different views of Trump’s economic impact. Most Republicans (63%) say Trump’s policies have made the economy better. By contrast, 64% of Democrats say they haven’t had much effect. |
While the public’s views of the economy were far more negative at a comparable point in Barack Obama’s first year in office than they are today (just 8% rated economic conditions positively), views of Trump’s influence on the economy are not all that different from public assessments of Obama’s impact. |
In October 2009, 42% said Obama’s policies hadn’t had much impact on the economy, compared with 31% who said they had made things better and 20% who said they had made things worse. |
In 2009, views of Obama’s impact on the economy were also highly partisan, though the share of Democrats who thought his policies had improved the economy in late 2009 (47%) was somewhat smaller than the share of Republicans who say this about Trump’s policies today (63%). |
About half (49%) of all Americans now say their family’s income is not keeping pace with the cost of living, while 40% say they are staying about even and just 9% say their income is going up faster than the cost of living. |
As in the past, those with lower incomes are the most likely to say they are falling behind. Today, two-thirds (67%) of those with incomes of $30,000 or less per year say they feel like they are falling behind the cost of living. By comparison, those with incomes of $75,000 or more are far less likely to say this (33%)... |
Older Americans also remain more likely than younger people to report that they are falling behind. While only 34% of those younger than 30 report feeling like their incomes are falling behind the cost of living, that figure rises to 55% among those 50 and older. |
Today, Democrats and Democratic leaners (56%) are significantly more likely than Republicans and Republican leaners (37%) to say that their income is falling behind the cost of living. The reverse was true in surveys conducted from 2014 through 2016, during the Obama administration; however, the size of the partisan ga... |
The share of Democrats who now say their incomes are falling behind the cost of living is seven percentage points higher than it was in June 2016 (56% today, 49% last year), while the share of Republicans who now say their incomes are falling behind has dropped 22 percentage points since last year (37% now, 59% then). |
Reflecting a similar partisan pattern, Democrats were more likely than Republicans to say their incomes were falling behind the cost of living in surveys conducted throughout the second term of George W. Bush’s presidency. |
Today, 50% of Americans say there are plenty of jobs available in their communities, the highest share saying this in Pew Research Center surveys dating back to 2001. At the same time, 41% now say there are plenty of “good jobs” available. The current gap between the two measures is similar to past surveys. |
As with other economic measures, Republicans and Republican leaners have more positive views of the job situation than do Democrats and Democratic leaners. |
Nearly six-in-ten Republicans (58%) now say there are plenty of jobs available in their local communities, compared with 47% of Democrats. Since the question was last asked in June 2016, GOP views have become considerably more positive (from 41% who said plenty of jobs were available then to 58% who say this today). De... |
By contrast, following the economic recession and throughout most of the Obama presidency, Republican and Democratic views on this measure tracked together. However, the current gap is similar to the partisan divide in these views during the George W. Bush administration, when Republicans were consistently more likely ... |
The partisan gap is even more pronounced on the question of whether “good jobs” are available (half of respondents are asked about “job” availability, half are asked about “good jobs” availability). While 57% of Republicans say there are plenty of “good jobs” (little different than the share who say there are plenty of... |
Across both questions, higher-income Americans are more likely than those with lower incomes to say plenty of jobs are available in their community. Nearly two-thirds (65%) of those with annual family incomes of $75,000 or more say there are plenty of jobs available in the community where they live, compared with 46% o... |
And while just 26% of those with annual incomes under $30,000 say there are plenty of “good jobs” available, that rises to 53% among those with incomes of $75,000 or more. |
How have Trump’s economic policies affected economic conditions? |
About half (49%) of U.S. adults say that Trump’s economic policies have not had much effect on economic conditions, while those who do say they have had an effect are somewhat more likely to say they have made the economy better (29%) than worse (18%). |
About six-in-ten (63%) Republicans and Republican leaners say that Trump’s policies have improved the economy, while 29% say they have not had much effect (just 4% say they have made economic conditions worse). Most Democrats and Democratic leaners (64%) say that Trump administration policies have not had much effect e... |
Within both parties – but particularly within the GOP – there are differences in these views across income groups. About three-quarters (73%) of Republicans with annual incomes of $75,000 or more say that Trump’s policies have made economic conditions better, compared with 44% of Republicans with incomes under $30,000 ... |
Though majorities of Democrats at all income levels say Trump’s policies have not had much of an effect, this view is more widely held among higher-income Democrats. Those with lower incomes are somewhat more likely to say Trump’s policies have worsened economic conditions. |
Perceptions of economic conditions are little changed since February (42%), when positive views of the economy reached their highest point in a decade. |
Today, a 57% majority of Republicans and Republican leaners characterize national economic conditions as excellent (10%) or good (47%). Among Democrats, just 30% say the same. At the same time, Democrats are roughly twice as likely as Republicans to describe current conditions as poor (27% vs. 12%). |
Throughout much of the Obama administration, Democratic ratings of the economy were considerably more positive than Republican assessments. For instance, as recently as December 2016, just 14% of Republicans said the economy was in excellent or good shape, compared with 46% of Democrats. |
This pattern of views of the economy being more positive among those who share the president’s party was also apparent throughout much of George W. Bush’s administration (briefly narrowing at the height of the economic crisis in late 2008 and early 2009, when clear majorities of both Democrats and Republicans rated eco... |
Looking ahead, the public has mixed views of how they think the national economy will perform over the next year. About as many say conditions will be better in a year (32%) as say they will be worse (29%); 37% think they will be about the same as they are now. |
The public’s outlook is somewhat less positive than it was in February. At that time, slightly more thought the economy would improve (38%) than worsen (32%) over the coming year. |
Nearly two-thirds of Republicans and Republican leaners (63%) expect the economy to be better in a year, compared with just 8% who think it will be worse. Democrats are much less optimistic about the economy’s direction than Republicans: 44% think conditions will be worse in a year, while an identical share says they w... |
Higher-income Republicans are more optimistic about the economy than lower-income Republicans. About two-thirds (66%) of Republicans in households earning $75,000 a year or more think economic conditions will be better in a year. Among Republicans in households earning less than $30,000 a year, 53% say this. |
Republicans reacted to the start of Trump’s presidential administration with a burst of economic optimism. The share expecting the economy to be better in a year went from just 28% in September 2016 to 75% in February, shortly after Trump’s inauguration. The share of Republicans and Republican leaners expecting the eco... |
Democratic views have moved in the opposite direction. As a result, the partisan gap in economic expectations has been wider in the first year of the Trump administration than at other points in Pew Research Center surveys over the course of the last two decades. |
In September 2016, just 16% of Democrats and Democratic leaners thought the economy would get worse in the coming year. That share spiked to 49% in February after Trump’s election and stands at 44% in the current survey. Just 10% of Democrats now think the economy will improve in the next year. |
OWENSBORO, Ky. – Sept. 28 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — The Moonlite Bar-B-Q Inn, a Kentucky tradition in Owensboro since 1963, was voted the best Barbecue in Kentucky by “Kentucky Monthly” for the third straight year and the fifth out of the last seven years. |
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Does e-learning really work? Is it better or worse than classroom training? In which situations? Whenever I have asked the experts, these questions have remained largely unanswered. Until now. |
This week, when I asked Rebel Sports training manager David Smith and Enfo Knowledge Solutions director Gerard Manion, they were able to show just how powerful e-learning can be. Perhaps for the first time, an e-learning system has been wired up to a point-of-sale system to measure its impact on the bottom line. |
"The whole return on investment for training has been the biggest bugbear for any CEO," Manion says. "So what we say is, 'Judge us by our sales results.' We have a system that can track what is going on in your business in real time." |
Rebel's system, built on Enfo's Versity retail e-learning system, allows workers to train at any one of its 45 stores or at home on the Internet. Versity costs as little as $80 a year per person to train 1000 staff. |
Over the past 12 months, Rebel has deployed an employee induction course, 14 product-education modules and a management-training course on the system. The product training has been linked to sales figures, allowing the effect of e-learning to be measured. It is believed to have increased sales of featured articles by 1... |
"Before, we had store-by-store training and organised suppliers to do the training for us," Smith says. "The only way you could measure it was via feedback forms. Now they have to do a small multiple-choice test. The pass marks on the modules are 80 per cent, but they can have as many goes as they want." |
Smith's testing differs from that of a formal education system, which has a pass mark of perhaps 50 per cent with only one attempt at the exam allowed. But Manion says this inverted approach imparts real product knowledge: "We wanted to develop a training program for shoes designed for (Sydney's) City to Surf (race). T... |
This must be where many of the new sales start. Under the old model, Manion, a veteran retail trainer, says 80 per cent of his time was spent getting everyone in a group up to the same level - effectively boring the top people for the benefit of the bottom people. But with e-learning tailored to each employee's needs, ... |
"The system offers real-time feedback to managers and students," Manion says. "So once the system was up, individuals started doing the training under their own volition. We've found individuals who have the opportunity to take on content to move through the organisation will do so at no cost." |
Smith says that within 10 hours of the unannounced release of a product module, at least 20 people had sat the test. He believes this shows how many staff cruise the system, but he doesn't believe that Internet access will lead to workers being pressured to train at home without being paid. |
"They have the opportunity to learn at work as store managers give them time off the floor," he says. "It's in management's best interests to get them doing the modules. They would want to encourage it, not discourage it." |
So, to be a sales person at a sports store now requires computer skills, but Smith says Rebel Uni is easy to drive. "When the company started expanding quickly, we were going into locations such as Darwin. The cost of sending a trainer every time they hire a new employee means we need to send the knowledge to them inst... |
Five more Rebel stores will open before Christmas. Smith says the ability to offer new employees an online induction course is a luxury few of his retail colleagues enjoy. So far, 900 people have been through it. |
But he says some things must still be taught the old way: "You can't really tell if they are competent by an online program, so we have a proactive day to bring all the skills together in role-plays, such as how to make a suggestion, close a sale or greet a customer. It will never do away with classroom training." |
Microsoft's $1.2 billion acquisition of social enterprise tool Yammer last year turned out to be a great move. |
In Microsoft's most recent quarter, Yammer increased its sales by 259% year over year and added 312 new clients to its roster. |
Microsoft is incredibly pleased with the acquisition. |
We first saw the news on The Next Web. |
"There are always questions after an acquisition, like, 'How is it going?' There's a worry about cultures clashing, and about products and strategies coming together," Jared Spataro, senior director of the Microsoft Office Division, told IDG News Service's Juan Carlos Perez. "When we did the acquisition, we talked a lo... |
Microsoft also announced that it would fold about 100 sales people from Yammer into the Office 365 team this summer. |
Yammer launched at TechCrunch 50 back in 2008. Before Microsoft acquired the startup, Yammer had raised $142 million from Charles River Ventures, The Founders Fund, angel investor Ron Conway, and others. |
Swampscott High School students Emma Sutherland and Shama Varghese recently traveled to Washington, D.C., with the Anti-Defamation League of New England to attend a conference from Nov. 15-18. They were joined by 127 young leaders from across the country who were all chosen to participate in the four-day National Youth... |
During the conference, student delegates had the opportunity to share their personal experiences with bullying, hatred and discrimination. They also heard from Holocaust survivors, hate-crime prevention experts and politicians. The mission was designed to help students apply lessons from historical atrocities, such as ... |
It was a mixture of move-in labor, pizza and tardiness that bonded The Heavy Children duo a little more than five years ago. |
That’s when drummer Eric Hoehn moved to Montgomery from New York. “The first thing I wanted to do is find someone to play music with,” Hoehn said. “I met this guy (Adam Davila - vocals and guitar) the day we moved in, actually." |
A mutual friend brought them together. |
The Heavy Children's “official biography” describes them as "a secret society of musicians from all over the United States that convene in order to discover new possibilities of space and sound." |
What you’ll hear is unique blend of rock and dark soul. Hoehn said they try to play to their own strengths. “Give us a chance and maybe you’ll like us,” he said. |
They’ve got one album out now, “Spiraling Back,” and have several other projects in the works. "We’re working on our second album,” Hoehn said. |
When they’re not recording, they’ve also been working in live shows at Montgomery places like Barra Hookah and Bomer’s Pub. They’ve played several shows in Birmingham this year, and on Saturday they’ll be working a house show there. |
“And make sure you practice,” Hoehn said. |
Check them out online at theheavychildren.wordpress.com. You can also find them on Facebook, Instagram, Spotify, iTunes. “We’re on every musical platform you can imagine, probably, except for Pandora,” Davila said. |
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