Most financial market observers point to liquidity from central banks as a prime reason stock markets have gone up so much in recent years. True enough… But there’s another huge source of global...
·       The strongest small cap sectors are utilities and consumer goods. ·       The best small cap industry is gold. The average small cap score is 43.96 and that’s below the f...
The canary in the coalmine of an increasingly desperate energy industry just croaked. With “unusual timing” and at “distressed prices,” Reuters reports that Phillips 66 (PS...
OVERNIGHT MARKETS AND NEWS March E-mini S&Ps (ESH16 -1.69%) are down sharply by -2.11% at a 3-week low and European stocks are down -3.44% at a 2-1/2 year low after Wednesday’s testimon...
Demand for the Japanese Yen was significantly higher during the Asian trading session which helped push the currency up 2% versus the greenback. That was largely a factor of the escalation of marketsâ...
The yellow dog is howling a hurricane this morning, gathering its recent gains and just punching through 1200, running up to challenge 1270 one might hope. Let’s see how the metal copes with an ...
 The global financial markets experienced one of their most turbulent starts to a year ever this past January. Asian and European markets entered into bear market territory, while US stocks plunged ...
Week 5 of 2016 shows same week total rail traffic (from same week one year ago) only marginally declined according to the Association of American Railroads (AAR) traffic data. Intermodal traffic con...
The stock market has been beaten down to the point where people are selling and not asking questions. Multiples have been taken out of the high flying momentum stocks across the board. The stocks that...
Governments have been getting tougher on the use of corporate tax havens. Britain recently reached a $200 million deal with Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) – better known as Google – for back taxes. Frenc...