{"id":183,"date":"2019-09-01T19:29:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T19:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ambasthafinancial.com\/?p=183"},"modified":"2019-09-01T19:29:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T19:29:46","slug":"what-caught-our-attention-in-the-investment-world-week-of-august-26-30-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambasthafinancial.com\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"What Caught Our Attention in the Investment World? &#8211; Week of August 26-30, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Anil K. Ambastha and Kuldip K. Ambastha<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the second-quarter earnings reporting period is coming to a close, in this past week the market was not impressed with cosmetic retailer Ulta Beauty (<a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/ULTA\">ULTA<\/a>). The company&#8217;s lowered second-half guidance generated multiple analyst downgrades, and the stock dropped by 29.6% on Friday, August 30th, marking its largest-ever single-day percentage decline. The stock is now at about an 8-month low price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keywords &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/ambasthafinancial.com\/?s=Second-quarter\">Second-quarter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ambasthafinancial.com\/?s=Earnings\">Earnings<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ambasthafinancial.com\/?s=Cosmetics\">Cosmetics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ambasthafinancial.com\/?s=Retailer\">Retailer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ambasthafinancial.com\/?s=Guidance\">Guidance<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Disclosure &#8211; The principals of Ambastha Financial LLC have no position in <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/ULTA\">ULTA<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Disclaimer &#8211; No recommendations are being made via this post. Past performance is not an indicator of future performance. As an investor, you should do your own research and seek professional advice from a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA). You can lose money by investing in stocks and other instruments. Ambastha Financial LLC does not assume any responsibility (legal or otherwise) for any losses that may occur as a result of actions taken based on this post. All content copyrighted \u00a9 2019 &#8211; Ambastha Financial LLC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anil K. Ambastha and Kuldip K. Ambastha As the second-quarter earnings reporting period is coming to a close, in this past week the market was not impressed with cosmetic retailer Ulta Beauty (ULTA). The company&#8217;s lowered second-half guidance generated multiple analyst downgrades, and the stock dropped by 29.6% on Friday, August 30th, marking its &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ambasthafinancial.com\/?p=183\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Caught Our Attention in the Investment World? &#8211; Week of August 26-30, 2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambasthafinancial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambasthafinancial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambasthafinancial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambasthafinancial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambasthafinancial.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ambasthafinancial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/ambasthafinancial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambasthafinancial.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambasthafinancial.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambasthafinancial.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}