Regular readers please note there are a few tweaks to some of the standard portions of our evening market/investing report. Read carefully as some changes of the ‘standard text’ that follows before our left-right headlines and also in other features near the end of tonight’s reports.
Every evening our headlines that follow provide snapshots from two major media outlets on each side of the left-right news spectrum that reflect topics that influence or move investor sentiment. In moments on this business evening report, you can get ‘insights-at-a-glance.’
This report also sets the broader context for manufactured housing markets, in keeping with our mantra, “News through the lens of manufactured homes and factory-built housing” ©.
We begin with headlines left-of-center CNN followed by right-of-center Fox Business. We share closing tickers and other related data courtesy of Yahoo Finance, and more. 5 to 10 minutes reading this MHProNews market report every business night could save you 30 minutes to an hour of similar reading or fact-gathering elsewhere.
Perhaps more important, you will get insights about the industry from experts that care, but also dare to challenge the routine narrative that arguably keeps manufactured housing underperforming during an affordable housing crisis.
Headlines from left-of-center CNN Business.
- Netflix falls short – The company added 6.8 million subscribers in Q3, just missing its projected growth of 7 million
- FCC votes to approve the Sprint and T-Mobile deal
- Family Circle magazine to shut down after December issue
- Invest like Warren Buffett — Is this value’s time to finally shine?
- GM and UAW have reached a proposed agreement to end a 31-day strike by nearly 50,000 workers
- Volvo’s first fully electric car will also be one of its safest cars ever
- Twitter explains why it hasn’t suspended Trump’s account
- How far can $1,000 a month take Andrew Yang?
- Brexit countdown is sending the pound on a wild ride. There’s more to come
- It’s a tough time to be a bank, but Bank of America is finding ways to grow
- Beth Moses looks back on Earth in awe
- A Q&A with Beth Moses, the first passenger ever on Virgin Galactic’s space plane
- MGM Resorts is offloading the Bellagio and Circus Circus
- Marc Benioff says it’s time to break up Facebook
- Dumplings without pork? Swine fever is hitting Chinese consumers
- Trump’s ‘love fest’ with China won’t end the trade war
- China is starting to restore ties with the NBA
- US companies are taking huge risks to do business in China
- Here’s who’s who on China’s rich list
- STREAMING WARS – How Netflix opened the floodgates with statement on abortion rights
- Here are all the Disney+ movies and TV shows
- AMC Theatres enters the streaming market
- Mysterious startup wants to turn streaming on its head
- Disney bans Netflix advertising on entertainment networks
Headlines from right-of-center Fox Business.
- MONEY IN POLITICS – Why Amazon has poured more than a million dollars into this city council race
- The company confirmed in a statement to FOX Business that it had contributed an additional $1.05 million this week, bringing its total contribution this year to $1.45 million.
- RICH & FAMOUS – The gal pal who links bad fellas Cuba Gooding Jr. and Robert De Niro
- Ronan Farrow says Hillary Clinton’s staff ‘raised concerns’ about Weinstein reporting
- This top White House official helped broker tentative GM-UAW deal
- POLITICS – This top White House official helped broker tentative GM-UAW deal
- LIFESTYLE – Sugar-daddy relationships involve far more than sex and money, study says
- MLB accused of ‘de-juicing’ baseballs during playoffs
- MONEY – CHA-CHING: Hunter Biden joins list of West Wing kids landing lucrative gigs
- Inside Felicity Huffman’s cushy ‘Club Fed’ prison stay
- Millennial millionaires aren’t going to NYC or LA, they’re going here
- Hollywood actor allegedly posed as lingerie scout to get nudes
- Sexual assault runs rampant at this college, disturbing survey reveals
- WATCH: Mike Tyson schools MMA fighter in new viral video
- OPINION: The 7 most ridiculous proposals from the Democratic debate
- This magazine is shutting down after 87 years
- This apparel company looks to hire 10,000 part-time workers for the holidays
- Matt Lauer reportedly made ex-wife Annette Roque’s life ‘hell’ during marriage
- This truth could hurt: Pop singer Lizzo facing plagiarism charge
- How much money parents spend to help get their kids into dream college
- ‘Facebook is the new cigarettes’: Former Salesforce co-CEO slams platform
- Netflix’s earnings prep for upcoming ‘streaming wars’ as Disney, Apple plot launches
- Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg plans live address
- Billionaire Barry Diller: Disney+ can’t catch Netflix
- Former NFL player reveals how CBD ‘cured’ him
- Former Citigroup CEO and wife set Carnegie Hall donation record
- Monica Lewinsky: I’m looking for a ‘proper career’
- Why hundreds of thousands of kids could lose automatic free lunch
- Hold my beer: Fan sues NFL team over alcohol-soaked kerfuffle at stadium
- LeBron James being celebrated by some over Hong Kong remarks
- The futuristic way you’ll be able to pay at retailers across US: company
- Fed’s Beige Book reports slight economic growth in some regions
- Rick Perry: Why Americans are seeing cheaper electricity bills
- NASA paid millions to check if Elon Musk’s SpaceX workers smoked pot
- China vows to retaliate against US after House passes bill supporting Hong Kong protesters
- This ex-NFL star helps deliver 173rd home to single parent
- Johnson & Johnson $100M talcum powder verdict overturned, but ‘not on the merits’: Judge Napolitano
- Varney: Here’s what will decide the 2020 election, and why Trump has an edge
- Oakland Raiders partner with Indian casino on Las Vegas sponsorship
- Charles Schwab: This is the most important skill for an entrepreneur
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Tonight’s Business/Market/Political Impact Spotlight –
As noted in our opening paragraph tonight, the rising federal deficit is an issue for many across the left-right divide. It is a topic that indeed merits an objective look at the facts.
For those born since 2001, they have never known a period where there was actually a federal surplus instead of deficits. That occurred during a bargain made between former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (GOP) and then President Bill Clinton (D).
Not long after President George W Bush introduced his ‘compassionate conservatism’ and the introduction of expanded Medicare Part D and new wars in the Middle East, the return of deficits exploded. It was a campaign mantra of candidate Barack Obama who said it was unpatriotic. But during the POTUS Obama Administration years, those deficits soared even higher under the 44th president than under Bush 43.
Which brings us to our time. In the hurly burly of nonstop news, it may be understandable that some forget that not long after taking office, President Trump took certain steps to reduce federal spending. Those were challenged in the courts. That legal action has finally been resolved. It was mentioned in the press release from the White House, noted below.
Note that the graphics before and after the White House release are provided by MHProNews, based upon the sources as shown.
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
SUBJECT: Executive Orders 13836, 13837, and 13839
On May 25, 2018, I signed three Executive Orders requiring executive departments and agencies (agencies) to negotiate collective bargaining agreements that will reduce costs and promote government performance and accountability. These Executive Orders, Executive Order 13836 of May 25, 2018 (Developing Efficient, Effective, and Cost-Reducing Approaches to Federal Sector Collective Bargaining), Executive Order 13837 of May 25, 2018 (Ensuring Transparency, Accountability, and Efficiency in Taxpayer-Funded Union Time Use), and Executive Order 13839 of May 25, 2018 (Promoting Accountability and Streamlining Removal Procedures Consistent with Merit System Principles), were partially enjoined by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on August 25, 2018. The District Court’s injunction barred enforcement of sections 5(a), 5(e), and 6 of Executive Order 13836, sections 3(a), 4(a), and 4(b) of Executive Order 13837, and sections 3, 4(a), and 4(c) of Executive Order 13839.
On July 16, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held that the District Court lacked jurisdiction and vacated its judgment, and the Court of Appeals has now issued the mandate making its judgment effective.
Provisions of the Executive Orders that had been subject to the District Court’s injunction set presumptively reasonable goals that agencies must pursue during bargaining; directed agencies to refuse to bargain over permissive subjects of negotiation; and established Government-wide rules that displace agencies’ duty to bargain with unions over contrary matters, regardless of whether the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute would otherwise require bargaining absent those rules. Sections 4(c)(ii) and 8(a) of Executive Order 13837 and section 8(b) of Executive Order 13839, however, recognized agencies’ ability to comply with collective bargaining agreements containing prohibited terms so long as such agreements were effective on the date of the Executive Orders.
While the District Court’s injunction remained in effect, agencies retained the ability to bargain over subjects covered by the enjoined provisions. The Executive Orders, however, did not address collective bargaining agreements entered into during this period. As a result, it is necessary to clarify agencies’ obligations with respect to such collective bargaining agreements.
Agencies shall adhere to the terms of collective bargaining agreements executed while the injunction was in effect. Agencies that remain engaged in collective-bargaining negotiations, to the extent consistent with law, shall comply with the terms of the Executive Orders. However, where, between the date of the Executive Orders and the date of the Court of Appeals’s mandate, the parties to collective bargaining negotiations have executed an agreement to incorporate into a new collective bargaining agreement specific terms prohibited by the Executive Orders, an agency may execute the new collective bargaining agreement containing such terms, and terms ancillary to those specific terms, notwithstanding the Executive Orders.
To the extent it is necessary, this memorandum should be construed to amend Executive Orders 13836, 13837, and 13839.
The Director of the Office of Personnel Management is hereby authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.
DONALD J. TRUMP
As a closing note on this topic, MHProNews readers are reminded of the outcome that followed the John F. Kennedy (D) and Ronald Reagan (GOP) tax cuts. Revenues to the federal government rose. Deficits initially rose, but eventually the gap was closed. That pattern seems to be occurring now, even as many economists have projected.
As those on the political left urge higher taxes, one must remember that higher tax harm smaller businesses the most historically. Bigger businesses arguably have the ability to bundle higher taxes into their cost of doing business. Rephrased, it isn’t big business that pays those taxes, it is the customers of those big businesses.
Instead of whining about a lack of economic understanding, MHProNews for years has taken the position that it is better to share sound economic and other data and educate readers.
Facts and evidence matter.
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Manufactured Housing Industry Investments Connected Closing Equities Tickers
Some of these firms invest in manufactured housing, or are otherwise connected, but may do other forms of investing or business activities too.
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- NOTE: The chart below includes the Canadian stock, ECN, which purchased Triad Financial Services, a manufactured home industry lender.
- NOTE: Drew changed its name and trading symbol at the end of 2016 to Lippert (LCII).
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Berkshire Hathaway is the parent company to Clayton Homes, 21st Mortgage, Vanderbilt Mortgage and other factory built housing industry suppliers.
· LCI Industries, Patrick, UFPI, and LP each are suppliers to the manufactured housing industry, among others.
· AMG, CG, and TAVFX have investments in manufactured housing related businesses.
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