We wrote in our 2016 Outlook Report that we favor stocks above commodities and currencies in 2016, but that increased market volatility should be taken seriously. Volatility also implies opportunities...
An Apple A Day Apple (AAPL) is due to report earnings after the bell Tuesday. Wall Street is known for lowering expectations prior to earnings in order to paint a more favorable picture of the actual ...
Looks like something big is about to take place on the Comex as Registered Gold inventories declined a whopping 73% in one day. This is a very suprising update as Comex Gold inventories haven’t ex...
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) released the earnings results from its first quarter of fiscal 2016 after closing bell tonight, posting earnings of $3.28 per share and sales of $75.9 million. Analysts had be...
Monday’s close had all the look of a retest of last week’s spike low. And the Asian session only looked to confirm further weakness as the Chinese market continued its slump. However, bull...
Someone emailed me this article published at Yahoo!Finance that purports the Fed’s tightening is going to send stocks soaring, the DJIA mentioned specifically heading toward 25,000. The way in whi...
There is a real and frightening conundrum that has arisen from the Great Recession. It is the IOR Conundrum. What are we to make of payment of interest on excess reserves (IOR), held for the banks b...
Oil markets continue to drive global risk sentiment as the correlation between crude and equities rises. For all the yapping going on in Davos, those (supposedly) top finance/economics minds do not s...
AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) released its fourth quarter earnings report after closing bell tonight, posting adjusted earnings of 63 cents per share, which is in line with the consensus estimate and $42.1 b...
Gold and silver were both in rally mode today, continuing the ‘bounce’ off the recent bottom and a desire to move higher. There was intraday commentary in which I suggested that we are see...