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S&P 500 Snapshot: Erasing Yesterday’s Gain Before Tomorrow’s FOMC Minutes
The S&P 500 sank at the open, traded sideways to the noon hour and then sold off in a couple of waves to its -1.25% intraday low early in the final hour some buying in the fina... -
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E Coining A Profit On Our FXY Put Spread
Ladies and gentlemen, we have another winner. The Currency Shares Japanese Yen Trust (FXY) May, 2016 $91-$94 in-the-money vertical bear put spread is showing a mark to market this ... -
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There’s No Quick Fix For This Alarming Retirement Dilemma
The retirement crisis will eventually come to a head. And when it does, it’s not going to be pretty. As shown by the record number of seniors living in poverty, it’s no longer ... -
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Fed Threats
“Stock market bubbles don’t grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.” George Soros We saw choppy action in sto... -
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More On Uncertainty In Open Economy Macro
In my last post, I noted a conference on uncertainty in macroeconomics. Here are two papers of particular interest to me. The first, by Kimberly A. Berg and Nelson Mark, was entit... -
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EC When You Exit The Stock Market, Don’t Let The Door Hit You On Your Way Out
You cannot make this stuff up. The median stock in the S&P 500 has never been more overvalued on price-to-earnings growth (PEG) and price-to-sales (P/S). On a forward price-to-... -
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16 Months And Counting
In his 2016 State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama accused those claiming the American economy is in decline of “peddling fiction”. Few economic prognosticators hav... -
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April 2016 Industrial Production Remains In Contraction Year-Over-Year But Monthly Data Improves
The headlines say seasonally adjusted Industrial Production (IP) improved. The year-over-year data remains in contraction – so improvement is always relative. Headline season... -
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Can LinkedIn Corp. Withstand The Facebook Charge?
123RF LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD) is facing its biggest challenge yet, from Facebook (NASDQ:FB). Facebook has launched a number of new business services and is making a serious effort t... -
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The Australian Dollar Swings Wide On Repeat Information
In the wake of poor inflation data, a rate cut from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), and then a dovish Statement on Monetary policy, speculators decided that this was not t...
