Please Stalk These Three Reports

I am 100% locked and loaded on earnings season. The checklist of supplies is handy: pens, paper, perfect pushup device, sugar-free Red Bull and protein bars. Now all that's left to fulfill are the numbers concocted by spreadsheets monitored daily by the CFO's office.

To be as blunt and to the point as humanly possible, I need you to #stalk the earnings reports of AMD (AMD), Chipotle (CMG) and Safeway (SWY). These reports will provide differing degrees of insight on U.S. consumer spending, international consumer spending, corporate spending and demand trends in emerging markets. But, outside of that, I think they will unlock derivative investment ideas. Finding relative winners in increasingly challenging global economic conditions is one of my strategies this earnings season. ("Increasingly challenging" -- you see? I am already sounding like a CEO, having read a slew of earnings releases thus far!) At any rate, let's get right to it....404 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.

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