Crude oil has of course gone on a wild ride for more than a year and lately, as its volatility has been increasing, the correlation to equities has also increased. When the volatility characteristics ...
Following existing home sales post-regs change spike, new home sales (after 9 months of missed expectations) soared 10.8% in December to a seasonally-adjusted annualized rate of 544k (smashing expecta...
CSX Corporation (CSX – Analyst Report) recently warned about 2016 as the railroads struggle. This Zacks Rank #5 (Strong Sell) is expected to see earnings decline this year. CSX connects nearl...
The Australian Dollar touched on a 3-week peak against the US Dollar. That came in the wake of a one-two punch of better than expected inflation data and calmer equity markets which helped to list inv...
The image below shows the 10 year cumulative returns of Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) and the S&P 500 (SPY): Source: Data from Yahoo! Finance $1.00 invested in Johnson & Johnson on 1/27/2006 is...
Today the Fed will decide whether or not to hike rates again. Remember, the Fed gave us a nice holiday gift when they last met in December. After months and months of talk, they finally acted to raise...
Let’s begin with China, where the latest trade data shows a large discrepancy between what China supposedly imports from Hong Kong and what Hong Kong exports to China. Source: @tracyalloway As e...
EUR/USD The EUR/USD pair went back and forth during the course of the day on Tuesday as we continue to see quite a bit of volatility. The one thing that I am focusing on the most though is the fact th...
Apple’s (AAPL) guidance was considerably worse than expected, but always spinning positively, analysts proclaim somehow that it was “better than feared.” It appears not as AAPL is no...