With the S&P 500 down 12.6% from its peak, its worth looking at what the numbers have to say. Markets tend to peak when valuations are expensive, and animal spirits high. They tend to bottom when ...
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“The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most alarming, says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is that the finance industry ...
This is the Question on Everyone’s mind . Earlier this week we looked at the expanding triangle as a possible reversal pattern as it was testing the top rail with a breakout gap. The next two days s...
In his final state-of-the-union address, President Obama famously accused anyone who dares to question the strength of the US economic “recovery” of “peddling fiction.” Shortly...
On Thursday, the 30 Year Treasury Bonds put in a 40-year high! Why are these bonds going higher (i.e., yields trending lower) even after the Fed raised rates, and continues to talk about hiking intere...
“We all suffer for each other, and gain by each other’s suffering; for man never stands alone here, though he will stand alone hereafter; but here is he is a social being, and goes forward...
Last week we focused on the gold stocks. There was more initial evidence of a new bull market there than in Gold. However, Thursday Gold erased some doubts as it rocketed above $1200/oz and to as high...
If we have at least a good idea about the gross exposure to US junk if not who ultimately holds and funds it, the emerging markets infiltration is much more difficult to parse. There are only a handfu...