Markets

Oct 10, 2010 at 14:19

The U.S. is a world of well educated, highly sophisticated investors who use an extraordinary well developed set of markets through which to invest into every item that has a…

Oct 10, 2010 at 09:06

I mentioned that all the recent huge up days (up more than 1.5%) simply had no follow-through thereafter. From another angle, the chart below compares what happened when uptrend was…

Oct 10, 2010 at 09:03

To date, in spite of the myriad of possible targets, and even some threats from Barofsky and others, we have seen no real action. So why should we expect this…

Oct 10, 2010 at 09:00

Since 1971, the S&P 500 closed higher on 26 (or 66.67% of the time) and lower on 13 occurrences (Columbus Days), and shows a Profit Factor of 4.72, a Geometric…

Oct 10, 2010 at 08:58

Investor sentiment is neutral across the slate of indicators for the second week running. While the trend remains up, the best - most accelerated - gains are likely behind us.…

Oct 09, 2010 at 19:00

To ease or not to ease? That is the question we will take up this week. And if we do get another round of quantitative easing (QE2), will it make…

Oct 09, 2010 at 10:13

Last week, in apparent retaliation for NATO's cross-border air strikes on Pakistani territory, which were conducted without advance discussions with Pakistani officials, Islamabad imposed a blockade on NATO's Afghan supply…

Oct 09, 2010 at 10:00

Since late August the major indices have rallied 11% - 16% depending on the index, unfortunately most of the breadth indicators have not demonstrated the appropriate exuberance.

Oct 09, 2010 at 09:58

The only genuinely good news in Friday's jobs report was the much needed shedding of 159,000 government workers of which only 77,000 were temporary census workers. Shed another million government…

Oct 09, 2010 at 09:56

The lines are drawn, the cannons are loaded - the currency war has begun. The opening shots have already been fired with the biggest battles still ahead. This is a…