Gustave Courbet The wave 1870
December 7, 2017
US domestic stocks of crude oil continue to be quite high and now the futures curve is only a few pennies in the front month contract from being fully backwardated again. Contango is gone, which suggests that oil market is
Each year of this enduring slow-growth expansion cycle starting in 2009 has had a growing chorus of doomsayers looking for the next recession. The evidence in forecasting the next economic peak resembles a litany of what if’s to justify a visceral conclusion. Rising interest
Top tickers for end of day: BAC, AAPL, DIS, FCX, CMCSA, OXY.
Earlier in 2017, using the latest – and soon to be revised – Fed data, newspapers and financial media reported that US consumer credit card debt had risen above $1 trillion for the first time since the financial crisis. Ironically,
Despite last Friday’s pullback, nearly all markets have been heading higher with no end in sight. Market strategist John Roque at Key Square Capital Management recently spoke with Financial Sense Newshour to discuss his outlook and a number of risks building under
It is interesting to note that Marx, in his analysis of the capitalist economic system, basically concentrates on the study of the imbalances and maladjustments which occur in the market. This accounts for the fact that Marxist theory is primarily
General Electric (GE) missed on Q3 earnings and the stock is off over 20% since. Things might have gotten worse after Fitch downgraded the industrial giant: Fitch Ratings has downgraded the Long- and Short-Term Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) for General
Another day, another large natural gas red candle. That seems to be the trend of late, with prices down over 13% from their settle last Wednesday. Yet while we have seen major declines a number of days, the catalysts for
Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called ‘Buying Dividends,’ also commonly referred to as ‘Dividend Capture.’ This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at
