OSINT Drip 10-11-2021

After a bit of a hiatus welcome again to the OSINT drip. This week we mined more than 150,000 articles over the last week for market signals around interest rates and inflation with bridge_ci’s machine intelligence ecosystem (more information here).

Markets

The companies below are the most mentioned in financial media over the last week in addition to the segment market share.

  • Amazon led the way with some investors being recently bullish on the stock (which has remained mostly flat over the last year)

  • Facebook had the most negative sentiment due to a former employee who testified that the company was putting profit before safety.

  • Salesforce stock is on the rise due to cloud computing capacities.

  • Tesco could be a bargain with the FTSE stocks generally being undervalued.

Stocks of interest that you should be watching:

  • Zoom

  • Paypal

  • Cloudflare

  • SoFi

  • Netflix

Economics

  • The Dow Jones edged down almost 9 points on Friday, the S&P 500 lost 0.2% and the Nasdaq retreated 0.5%.

  • The US oil benchmark rose to above $80 a barrel for the first time since November 2014.

  • New orders for US manufactured goods jumped 1.2% mom in August of 2021, following an upwardly revised 0.7% rise in July and beating market forecasts of a 1% rise.

  • The number of job openings (black line) proved to be a leading indicator of factory orders as shown in the graph below.

The biggest increases were seen in:

  • transportation equipment (5.4%)

  • aircraft and parts (77.9%);

  • fabricated metal products (2%).

Some macroeconomic leading indicators to watch:

  • French industrial output - higher than forecasted

  • German industrial output - lower than forecasted

  • Eurozone retail sales - lower than forecasted

  • Canada building permits - down

To Watch For (This Week):

  • Investors across the globe will be waiting for FOMC minutes due Wednesday.

  • The consumer price report for September will show headline inflation rates bouncing back to 5.4 percent.

  • Britain's economic calendar is also packed with key updates on monthly GDP data, foreign trade, industrial production, and construction output.

  • In Asia-Pacific, China will be publishing inflation data, foreign trade figures, and monetary indicators for September.

  • Investors in Australia will turn their attention to employment figures, NAB business confidence, and Westpac consumer confidence.

We hope you find the intelligence helpful. Please reach out to hello@bridgeci.co with questions or suggestions. Prior OSINT Drips are below.

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