Markets

Mar 21, 2004 at 00:00

Greenspan was heard last year complaining there is "too little inflation." Although that may seem puzzling to the uninitiated (didn't he just get done battling the "inflation dragon" in 1999…

Mar 20, 2004 at 00:00

Longer term I remain optimistic, next week is a different matter. The deterioration Friday was widespread, the chart below shows the difference of momentum of volume of issues of the…

Mar 21, 2004 at 00:00

Once there is overlapping two outcomes are possible  the S&P bounces on that support of the lower NON-DIRERCTIONAL move and starts another labored up move. If so, and fails…

Mar 20, 2004 at 00:00

The big question hanging out there for the Bears is how far can this first leg down go before markets attempt to shake off this decline as simply another normal…

Mar 20, 2004 at 00:00

Is there anything which is on the horizon which I can point my finger to and say "That's the straw that will break the back of the trade camel?" No,…

Mar 19, 2004 at 00:00

Increasingly, Fannie has relied on the swaps market - and its swap counterparties - for protection. Counterparties, then, rely on sophisticated trading strategies which establish positions that will generate the…

Mar 19, 2004 at 00:00

One of the primary reasons that the BPIs provide early warning to speculators of an imminent trend change is due to the very nature of today's market-capitalization-weighted indices like the…

Mar 19, 2004 at 00:00

But the jobless situation is only a part of the problem. The real problem of course lies in the policies of the Federal Reserve determined at any cost to maintain…

Mar 19, 2004 at 00:00

The two thirds of India's over 1 billion agriculture dependent population are having a good year. The weather has been kind, the economy is strong and there are profits in…

Mar 18, 2004 at 00:00

Suffice it to say, in order to plunge into stocks today the investor must bank on a sustained rebound in the US economy and corporate profits, while at the same…