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Dumped Dollar Due To Be Done Dropping? It Depends…
There are no two ways about it: it’s been a rough month, quarter, and year for the world’s reserve currency. The widely-followed US Dollar Index started the year in pea... -
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Rate Sensitive ETFs In Focus As Fed Meets
All eyes are currently on the crucial two-day FOMC meeting slated to start today. The central bank is expected to hold rates steady and lay out plans to unwind its $4.5 trillion ba... -
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The Next Big Worry? Well, Never Mind…
A couple weeks back, I opined that the next big problem for the stock market might revolve around global central bankers changing their monetary policy tune on a coordinated basis.... -
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Healthcare Vote Tuesday
Draghi Won’t Taper? The bond market gives us a picture of what investors are expecting from policy makers. The chart below shows the bond spreads the riskier European countries a... -
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Brokerage Or Tech Firm? Redfin’s Valuation Requires The Latter
As the Redfin (RDFN: $13/share) IPO approaches, investors must decide whether the firm is a traditional real estate brokerage or a technological innovator likely to disrupt the tra... -
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Case-Shiller 20 City Home Price Index May 2017 Shows 5.7 % Year-Over-Year Growth
The non-seasonally adjusted Case-Shiller home price index (20 cities) year-over-year rate of home price growth was declined from 5.8 % (was reported as 5.7 % last month) to 5.7 %. ... -
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Can U.S. Interest Rates Ever Rise?
While interest rates have risen from depths that saw the 10-year treasury yielding 1.36% on 7/3/16, to 2.25% today, given Fed plans to tighten and pledge to shrink its balance shee... -
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Last Week’s Rally In Gold Stocks Erased
Gold, silver and the USD Index didn’t do much in yesterday’s trading, but that was not the case with mining stocks. The divergence between gold stocks and gold was particularly... -
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Low Inflation: Should We Worry?
Binyamin Appelbaum had an interesting discussion of inflation in the NYT yesterday. As he notes, it has been below the Fed’s target throughout the recovery and, contrary to... -
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Home Prices Rose 5.6% Year-Over-Year NSA In May, Sixth Record High
With today’s release of the May S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, we learned that seasonally adjusted home prices for the benchmark 20-city index were up 0.1% month over...
