Kurt Osterberg

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Wall Street’s Week Ahead: Tesla Motors Inc., Walt Disney Co., Yelp Inc., And Cisco Systems Inc.

Here’s what to watch for in much anticipated earnings this week from Tesla Motors Inc. (Nasdaq: TSLA), Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS), Yelp Inc. (NYSE: YELP), and Cisco Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq...
On February 8, 2016 / By Kurt Osterberg
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On The Fly: Top Five Weekend Stock Stories

Catch up on the weekend’s top five stories with this list compiled by The Fly: 1. Ford (F) plans to build a new assembly plant in Mexico and expand its existing factory near Mexico City, sharply...
On February 7, 2016 / By Kurt Osterberg
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EUR/USD Forecast Feb 8-12

EUR/USD finally burst out of range and rallied very nicely. Is there more in store? GDP figures stand out this week. Here is an outlook for the highlights of this week and an updated technical anal...
On February 7, 2016 / By Kurt Osterberg
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Rate Hikes Vs. Balance Sheets

by Benn Steil — co-authored with Emma Smith How the Fed Should Tighten Monetary Policy On January 27, the U.S. Federal Reserve held interest rates steady and, in a modest nod to a market that h...
On February 7, 2016 / By Kurt Osterberg
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Earnings Growth Challenge Continues

Plenty of earnings reports are still to come, but the Q4 reporting cycle is past its peak, with results from 62% of the S&P 500 members already out. With 68 index members reporting results this we...
On February 7, 2016 / By Kurt Osterberg
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KISS

K.I.S.S. – Keep It Simple Stupid – An acronym used in the US military; a design principle; unnecessary complexity should be avoided. The acronym KISS is just another way of expressing Occam’s Ra...
On February 7, 2016 / By Kurt Osterberg
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8 Reasons This Economic “Recovery” Is A Grand Illusion

By Sol Palha (tacticalinvestor.com) Is this economic recovery real? Well, if you base your observations on how far the Dow has risen since the financial crisis of 2008 the answer would be a yes R...
On February 7, 2016 / By Kurt Osterberg
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The “We Shouldn’t Even Try” Brigade

Instead of “Yes we can,” many Democrats have adopted a new slogan this election year: “We shouldn’t even try.” We shouldn’t try for single-payer system, they say. We’ll be lucky if we pr...
On February 7, 2016 / By Kurt Osterberg
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The Power Of The Triangle

Last week, we talked about support and resistance – both of which drive the technical study of the financial markets. Let’s expand on this theory by introducing another key technical idea, one tha...
On February 7, 2016 / By Kurt Osterberg
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Iran Says No Thanks To Dollars; Demands Euro Payment For Oil Sales

Iran enjoys trolling the United States. In fact, it’s something of hobby for the Ayatollah, who has maintained the country’s semi-official “death to America” slogan even as President Rouhani p...
On February 7, 2016 / By Kurt Osterberg