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  • 12:05 AM Notable earnings before Thursday’s open: AAP, AINV, ALKS, BKE, BONT, DLTR, GME,HRL, QSII, RL, SLF, TD Comment!
  • 12:00 AM Thursday's economic calendar:
    8:30 Initial Jobless Claims
    9:00 PMI Manufacturing Index Flash
    9:00 FHFA House Price Index
    9:45 Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index
    10:00 New Home Sales
    10:30 EIA Natural Gas Inventory
    11:00 Kansas City Fed Mfg Survey
    4:30 PM Money Supply
    4:30 PM Fed Balance Sheet
      Comment!
  • 22 May, 10:32 PM GE bucked the downtrend today, rising 0.9% as Jeff Immelt - speaking at a conference (transcript) - says the company is considering spinning off parts of GE Capital through an IPO. "In financial services, putting things up for sale with the assumption that a bank would buy it has been a fool's journey," said Immelt, "(but) the capital markets are very receptive to IPOs." The proceeds would fund more buybacks as Immelt hopes to lower the share count to 9B-9.5B shares by 2015's end (from about 10.4B currently). Comment!
  • 22 May, 10:17 PM Ford (F) says it will close its plants in Australia in 2016 as a strong aussie and high labor costs weigh heavily on the Australian manufacturing sector's ability to compete with cheap imports. The closures are expected to result in the loss of some 1,200 jobs. 1 Comment [Consumer]
  • 22 May, 10:09 PM More P-E insiders cash in as Oaktree Capital (OAK) prices an upsized secondary (to 7M units from 6M) at $53.50 per share. The greenshoe option is for 15%, 1.05M shares. The company is using the proceeds to take out selling insiders. Two weeks ago, Apollo Global (APO) strategic investors and managing partners offered up 21.1M shares, and its CEO Leon Black has let it be known - now is the time to harvest. OAK -0.3% to $54.25 AH. Comment! [Financials]
  • 22 May, 10:06 PM China HSBC flash PMI prints in contraction territory for the first time in seven months, coming in at 49.6, down from a final reading of 50.4 in April. The new orders sub-index falls to 49.5 (eight month low) while new export orders stabilize a bit from last month. Comment! [Global & FX, Breaking News]
  • 22 May, 8:41 PM Singapore revises Q1 GDP up to show a 1.8% Q/Q expansion (seasonally adjusted, annualized) versus an advance estimate of a 1.4% decline. On a Y/Y basis the economy expanded 0.2%. The Ministry of Trade and Industry says "economic growth … is expected to improve gradually over the course of the year." The Singapore ETF (EWS) is up 19.8% Y/Y. Comment! [Global & FX]
  • 22 May, 8:31 PM Japanese stocks move up in early trading, with the Nikkei Average rising 0.7% as a weakened yen gives a boost to exporters and offsets early losses in banks: Canon (CAJ +3.4%), Fast Retailing (FRCOY.PK +2.9%), Fanuc (FANUY.PK +1%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust (SUTNY.PK -1.9%), Shinsei Bank (SKLKY.PK -2%). Comment! [Global & FX]
  • 22 May, 8:20 PM Citi's Willem Buiter throws in the towel on a "Grexit" in 2014, notable not only because Buiter has repeatedly predicted Greece will eventually bid the eurozone adieu (putting the odds at 90% within 12-18 months late last summer) but because he is credited with coining the term "Grexit" in the first place. Bears needn't despair too much though: Buiter still says "there is a fairly high risk of Grexit at some stage in the coming years." 2 Comments [Global & FX]
  • 22 May, 8:07 PM US Airways (LCC) prices $100M in aircraft financing to reimburse the company for the cost of the purchase of two Airbus aircraft currently owned and two aircraft scheduled to be delivered prior to the date of issuance in June. It also plans to use funds to finance its purchase of seven Airbus aircraft scheduled to be delivered from June 2013 to October 2013. Comment! [Consumer]
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