{"id":2953,"date":"2015-09-22T21:34:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T01:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/162.223.13.186\/~zacksim\/zacks-weekly\/"},"modified":"2022-02-26T13:23:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T13:23:04","slug":"zacks-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zacksim.com\/blog\/zacks-weekly\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed Narrative Doesn&#8217;t Change, Mega-brewery Potential, Lyft vs. Uber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In this week&#8217;s edition&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Federal Reserve Needs a &#8220;Little Bit More TIme&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Focus on Trend-lines, Not Headlines<\/li>\n<li>Megabrewery in the Works<\/li>\n<li>Lyft Challenging Uber ini China with Didi Kuaidi Partnership<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Federal Reserve Needs a \u201cLittle Bit More Time\u201d \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>those were the words Janet Yellen used when outlining the Fed\u2019s case for keeping interest rates steady. She expressed some concerns about the inflation outlook and recent market volatility as reasons to delay rate hikes further, which is essentially no different than what the narrative\u2019s been all year. Yellen hopes further saturation in the labor market will get inflation back on track, since low unemployment tends to lead to wage growth over time. In my opinion, there\u2019s too much focus on the old view of jobs and wages.<\/p>\n<p>With technology\u2019s continuous contribution to higher productivity at lower costs, lower unemployment doesn\u2019t necessarily call for higher wages and those inflation pressures may continue to be elusive. If the Fed is waiting for inflation numbers to tick up before feeling comfortable with a rate hike, we may not see a rate hike this year at all.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>Focus on the Trend-lines, Not the Headlines<\/strong><\/strong> \u2013\u00a0the S&amp;P 500 erased the week\u2019s gains on Friday, following the Fed\u2019s decision to keep rates steady once again. A quirky feature of investing is that in spite of solid economic data all week \u2013 and the market\u2019s incremental gains in the first four trading days \u2013 investors will only remember the one down day. It\u2019s hard-wired into our brains to dislike losses about twice as much as we enjoy gains. As a result, sentiment is likely to remain pessimistic about the market\u2019s future from here, which makes us even more optimistic. The market is still negative on the year (nearly -5%) but I don\u2019t think it will finish that way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ice Cold!\u00a0<\/strong>A \u201cMegabrewery\u201d appears to be in the works, with the world\u2019s largest brewer (AB InBev) targeting a takeover of rival and second-largest brewer SABMiller. If they become one, then their sales of tasty brews like Budweiser, Corona, Stella Artois (InBev) and Miller Lite, Pilsner Urquell, and Peroni (SAB Miller) would be responsible for generating around half of the industry\u2019s profit. AB InBev has yet to make a formal offer for SABMiller, but rumors are about that it will. Under British law, it must do so by\u00a0October 14th.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Sharing Economy Grows and Grows<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 it\u2019s seems increasingly likely that it\u2019s just a matter of time before \u201chailing a cab\u201d will become an extinct practice. Earlier this week, China&#8217;s ride-hailing service called Didi Kuaidi announced a deal with American counterpart Lyft to combine services, allowing passengers to hail rides from drivers of the other app, but to pay for the service in local currency. This pits Lyft and Didi squarely against Uber, who just recently raised nearly $1 billion to expand operations internationally as well as to explore other revenue streams within the service economy, such as food delivery. Other countries are getting into the game as well: France&#8217;s BlaBlaCar, which is already present across Europe, Russia and India, recently closed a new funding round with a valuation of an eye-popping $1.5B. Catching rides is big business.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Inherent in any investment is the potential for loss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Zacks Investment Management, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Zacks Investment Research. Zacks Investment Management is an independent Registered Investment Advisory firm and acts an investment manager for individuals and institutions. Zacks Investment Research is a provider of earnings data and other financial data to institutions and to individuals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">This communication is for informational purposes only and nothing herein should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation or an offer to buy or sell any securities or product, and does not constitute legal or tax advice. The information contained herein has been obtained from sources believed to be reliable but we do not guarantee accuracy or completeness. Zacks Investment Management, Inc. is not engaged in rendering legal, tax, accounting or other professional services. 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Do not act or rely upon the information and advice given in this publication without seeking the services of competent and professional legal, tax, or accounting counsel.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&#8217;s edition&#8230; The Federal Reserve Needs a &#8220;Little Bit More TIme&#8221; Focus on Trend-lines, Not Headlines Megabrewery in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-private-client-group","category-zacks-weekly"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacksim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacksim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacksim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacksim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacksim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zacksim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11522,"href":"https:\/\/zacksim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions\/11522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacksim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacksim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacksim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacksim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}