US treasuries are seeing action we have not seen for a while: Strong sharp steepening of the yield curve. The yield curve is said to steepen when the spreads between short-term and long-term rates increases. The yield curve flattens when
December 19, 2017
Sometimes better not to play at all… Video length: 00:04:05 Bonds & Stocks both slammed lower today – the worst combined day since 11/9/16… Trannies ended the day higher but the rest of the major US equity indices “sold the
This is likely to be a quiet trading week with an upwards drift. It was 60 degrees here, and I was out cleaning up the yard, wearing shorts. lol The artificially low volatility in the stock and bond markets is
If you’re looking for the best place to invest in 2018, one of your best bets is to put on your investment banker’s hat and bet on “M&As” — mergers and acquisitions. The biggest of 2017 — the proposed Disney-Twenty-First Century Fox
That line was only recently penned by the great Irish poet and philosopher, Paul Hewson. It no doubt applies here to our daily struggle against The Banks and their paper derivative pricing scheme. “It is what it is but it’s
A discussion about the expectations for markets, the economy, tax reform, interest rates, earnings, and crypto in 2018. Audio Length: 00:53:40
There wasn’t a whole lot to say about today. Profit takers tool advantage of yesterday’s gap higher to take some profits.The Russell 2000 enjoyed the best of the gains yesterday and suffered the worst of the selling today. The selling
Natural gas prices gave back some of their gains yesterday, but as is often the case losses were not uniform along the natural gas strip. We see that generally trading today was range-bound for the prompt month contract. Yet today
The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development have now published their findings for November new residential housing starts. The latest reading of 1.296M was above the Investing.com forecast of 1.250M and an increase from the previous month’s
The Chart of the Day belongs to Federated Investors (FII). I found the investment management stock by using Barchart to sort the Russell 3000 Index stocks first by the most frequent number of new highs in the last month, then used the Flipchart feature to review
