One month ago when oil was attempting another break out above $50, we wrote that the black gold had officially reached its “tipping point” when as we noted China had ...
The illiquid trading of December is already well in evidence – and we haven’t even reached the bad part yet. One we are past the CPI report and the Fed meeting, there will be a...
Now that Kinder Morgan (KMI) has come out with a massive dividend cut, I think it will get harder to ignore that this isn’t just about crude oil prices and the death of “transi...
This is a stark depiction of underlying stagnation: paid work is not being created as population expands. Heroic efforts are being made to cloak the stagnation of the U.S. economy....
On the heels of China’s, Japan’s, Brazil’s, and Europe’s Services PMI weakness (and US Manufacturing PMI and ISM weakness), Markit’s US Services PMI p...
The Chart of the Day is Anavex Life Sciences (OTCQX:AVXL). I found the biopharmaceutical stock by using Barchart to sort for the stocks with a Weighted Alpha of higher than 50....
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT’s) have had a tough go of it in 2015. As the threat of higher short term rates looms overhead. I’m using the Vanguard REIT index fund (VNQ) ...
The popular belief that the U.S. economy has been steadily recovering has endured months of disappointing data without losing much of its appeal. A deep bench of excuses, ranging f...