Ignore the lessons of history, and the cost to your portfolio will be great. Especially if you are a bond trader. In Britain they celebrated something unusual last year. The government reported the fi...
“Index shows Economic Growth Picked Up in April.” This is the headline for today’s release of the Chicago Fed’s National Activity Index, and here are the opening paragraphs fr...
The chart reflects that Silver and Silver ETF (SLV) are both testing triple resistance, inside of a falling channel at (1) above. We also shared that this resistance test was taking place at the sa...
Image via John Sonderman / Flickr Hawkish surprise from the FOMC meeting minutes sends the US dollar higher across the board. Australia’s April jobs report shows unemployment rate unchanged. UK’s ...
Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims The market expectations for weekly initial unemployment claims (from Bloomberg) were 261,000 to 280,000 (consensus 275,000), and the Department of Labor reported 278...
There’s growing certainty that the Federal Reserve Bank is likely to boost interest rates within the next quarter. Given that probability, the Dollar had continued on its upward trajectory until it ...
Hello from black-as-tar Palo Alto this morning. I am pleased to see oil finally, finally, finally weaken, down over 2% this morning. I would also point out that gold, which is getting clobbered, is...
In what is the traditional end to earnings season, moments ago the second biggest employer in the US after the government, Walmart (WMT) reported results which after several quarters of disappointment...