U.S. markets spiked after dovish statements by Janet Yellen. Video Length: 00:13:57
March 29, 2016
While the ECB and Bank of Japan are exploring negative interest rates, the US Federal Reserve is preparing us for a slow and cautious increase in short-term interest rates. Long-term rates remain at very low levels and inflation expectations have
What is the better investment? Silver or Gold? Well, if we look at the following two charts below, we can spot some interesting trends. The U.S. Mint has been producing Gold and Silver Eagles for over thirty years now. Since
Separating out the most promising stocks from the entire sector, Tim Plaehn has discovered the top five business development companies with high yields to buy today. Each has a yield above 7% (the highest is 14.6%), ample cash flow to
The Chart of the Day belongs to Morningstar (Nasdaq:MORN). I found the investment research stock by using Barchart to sort today’s All Time High list first by the number of new highs in the last month, Then again for the best technical buy signals. Next I
Fed Chair Janet Yellen has it both ways—she continues to suggest U.S. economic growth is “solid” but says global growth is weak (China) hence, raising interest rates will be measured or slow. This is mana for bulls which then means bulls can
Today stunk for me. This chart of the IWM captures the pain nicely: (As an aside, I’m actually not in any ETFs at all, but I thought the above chart showed the persistence of Tuesday’s lift-off; it’s like the small caps “knew”
The “short energy” trade worked great for a while and then, as we first warned in late January, just as everyone jumped onboard leading to record WTI (and oil and gas equity) shorts, it very suddenly stopped working in early
Nearly a year ago, as part of our survey of alternative income funds (“Alternative Alternative Income”), we picked through a number of floating-rate note (FRN) portfolios to find the potential best-of-class performance should interest rates rise. Well, since then rates
For reasons relatively easy to figure out, the massive flood of repo fails from a few weeks back was largely ignored outside of a few minor references. Not much has been made of it at all, and why would there be since
