If “missing” inflation is the bane of central bankers’ existence in the post-crisis world, it’s simultaneously the best thing that ever happened to risk assets. Investors are starting to figure out that the best of all possible worlds these days
September 9, 2017
Capital market bubbles superficially seem relieved by the series of great challenges, tragedies, and natural disasters swirling around but this may be a sort of temporary palliative. Clearly as the measure of Hurricane Irma gets a bit clearer, there should
I last wrote about the Financial ETF (XLF) on July 11th. Since then, it failed to sustain a brief breakout above the 25.00 major resistance level, as shown on the following Monthly chart. Price is sitting at the bottom of the upper quarter of a long-term uptrending
Talking Points: USD/CAD falls to lows seen in May 2015 on Rate Hike Further hikes are being mooted but will the BoC wait? USD weakness is exacerbating the move. Fundamental Forecast for CAD: Neutral We remain neutral on CAD although any further sharp upward
VIX had an inside week, but closed above Long-term support at 11.37. It is on a weekly buy signal with further confirmation above weekly mid-Cycle resistance at 14.93and the Ending Diagonal trendline near 15.00. Could the initial foray in August
Two days after credit-monitoring company Equifax revealed that, because of its staggering negligence, hackers had managed to penetrate the company’s meager cybersecurity defenses and abscond with up to 143 million social security numbers and a trove of other personal data
IBM (NYSE: IBM) stock used to be the darling of Wall Street. For most of our grandparents and even some of our parents, IBM was a staple stock in their portfolio. You could always count on Big Blue to grow revenues,
In this week’s edition of Market Week in Review, Rob Cittadini, regional director, consultant relations, interviewed Mark Eibel, director, client investment strategies, on the latest round of geopolitical news and its impact on financial markets. North Korea testing, U.S. debt
Last week, I noted: “I have a sneaky suspicion that when I update the Fed Balance Sheet reinvestment analysis next week, shown below, we are going to find a substantial, well-timed, reinvestment by the Central Bank. Wanna bet?” Well, here
In early August, we observed that the US Dollar index was on the verge of a meaningful breakdown. Our technical analysis suggested that a weekly close below the congestion support level in the 93 area would likely be followed by
