Discombobulated Markets! Thursday and Friday’s combined sessions were almost akin to a slow motion flash crash minus the gut wrenching downward price spirals. The extreme volatility in the major currency markets was also unprecedented. As previously stated, the reaction to Mario
December 6, 2015
Every Sunday I go through my watch list of stocks and study the prior week’s action of the stock market from a trend following perspective. We possibly are in the later stages of one of the most hated bull markets
The Chinese economy is telling us two different stories at a time. While on one hand, the Chinese economy is persistently delivering offhand economic numbers and even raised hard landing fears at some point of time, its currency yuan received
With the increased frequency of heightened volatility, investing has never been as challenging as it is today. However, the importance of investing has never been more crucial either, due to rising life expectancy, corrosive effects of inflation, and the uncertainty surrounding the
Whether the Fed raises rates in December or early in 2016, many market strategists believe higher interest rates will be a reality very soon. A few of our recent articles mentioned our belief that the Fed missed the opportunity to
Three weeks on from the shocking terrorist attacks in Paris, the French capital is again taking worldwide center stage. The world’s preeminent scientists, climatologists, academics, energy experts, and philanthropists, among others, are in the midst of the two-week United Nations
This is one of those stories that gets more amazing the further you dig into it. Seems that while Chicago descends into a very public, front page news bankruptcy, Kentucky is, dollar for dollar, screwing up even more badly: “(From Kentucky.com) –
The US Cash Deficit for November 2015 ended up at $93B for the month on $221B of revenues and $314B of outlays. This, plus a ~+20B adjustment of YTD deficit due to true up the end of “Extraordinary Measures” (EM)
I’m seeing continued positive signs for the market from the Twitter stream. First, is that daily momentum and sentiment for the S&P 500 Index (SPX) is showing mostly positive prints again. This is the first time that it’s happened since
Just like that, Pfizer (PFE) has decided it’s no longer American. It plans to link up with Ireland’s Allergan (AGN) and move its corporate headquarters from New York to Ireland. That way it will pay less tax. Ireland’s tax rate
