The US Dollar Index was trading close to a 10-month trough as investors await major policy decisions from several of the globe’s key central banks. Ahead are monetary policy announcements from Europ...
Investors are likely familiar with the standard Real Estate Investment Trusts, or REITs. Most REITs own physical real estate, lease the properties to tenants, and derive rental income which is used to...
Ok, so what central banks did was, they went out and they decided to see what would happen if everyone (save Haruhiko Kuroda of course who, like his spirit animal Peter Pan, will never concede that h...
The headline residential building permits improved and construction completions improved. Our analysis agrees. Analyst Opinion of Residential Building The backward revisions this month were moderat...
PetIQ (PETQ $14-16) is a small (~$350M sales) growth company doing an $85M IPO with Jefferies and William Blair as lead underwriters. The deal looks solid given that the company is gaining share in th...
Around 4amET, someone decided it was the perfect time to dump around half a billion dollars worth of notional gold into the futures markets. The biggest single flush hit at 357amET with $228mm notio...
The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development have now published their findings for June new residential housing starts. The latest reading of 1.215M was above the Invest...
Housing starts are up 8.3% to 1.215 million and building permits rise 7.4% to 1.254 million annualized. Both figures are ahead of expectations. The previous figure for housing starts was revised up to...
Up and up she goes. Now we’re watching that 6,000 line on the Nasdaq (/NQ) Futures which is up 33% in 18 months and up 40% from the lows of Jan, 2017. We barely paused at 5,000 and didn̵...