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Trading the Coppock Curve

May 29, 2018

E.S.C. Coppock introduced the indicator in Barron’s in October 1965. The goal of this indicator is to identify long-term buying opportunities in the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Index. The signal is very simple. Coppock used monthly data to identify buying opportunities when the indicator moved from negative territory to positive territory.

The problem with synchronized global growth

John Blank

March 26, 2018

For many equity analysts, the ebb-and-flow of stocks is seen from their daily price movements. Below that is a deeper earnings estimate revision battle shifting the deeper trading currents between bulls and bears.

Caterpillar shuts plant in Illinois, that employs 800

Reuters

April 3, 2017

Caterpillar Inc. said on Friday it will shut its Aurora, Illinois, plant, costing about 800 employees their jobs as the world's largest construction and mining equipment maker shifts production to other U.S. facilities.

Caterpillar shares flat day after U.S. authorities raid offices

Reuters

March 3, 2017

Caterpillar Inc's shares were flat in premarket trading on Friday, suggesting investors had put aside the company's tax risk as old news, a day after federal law enforcement officials searched three of its facilities.

Caterpillar Illinois facilities searched by law enforcement

Reuters

March 2, 2017

Machinery manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.'s facilities in Peoria, Illinois, were searched on Thursday by law enforcement officials executing a search warrant, a Caterpillar representative said.

Export companies tell U.S. Congress to push tax code rewrite

Ginger Gibson, Reuters

February 21, 2017

Chief executive officers of 16 companies, including Boeing Co, Caterpillar Inc and General Electric Co, have urged the U.S. Congress to pass a comprehensive tax code rewrite, including a controversial border tax.

U.S. durable goods report hints at pickup in business spending

Lucia Mutikani, Reuters

November 23, 2016

New orders for U.S. manufactured capital goods rebounded in October, driven by rising demand for machinery and a range of other equipment, pointing to a tentative pickup in business investment.