Things are going from bad to worse not only for the “Chinese growth is stable at 7%” but the “US is decoupling from the rest of the world” false narratives. …
Read More Thanks to a little help from the Federal Reserve on Wednesday, the market broke out of a three-week-old bearish rut, and in the process may have rekindled a bigger uptrend. …
Read More OVERNIGHT MARKETS AND NEWS June E-mini S&Ps (ESM15 -0.12%) this morning are down -0.21% and European stocks are down -0.89% as a drop in the price of crude oil undercuts energy producers that are leading …
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As previously observed (skeptically), a main reason for the surge in the DAX, and thus the S&P, on Friday was premature hope that the Greek talks on Thursday night were a …
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The US dollar opened broadly lower in Asia but trended higher through the first half of the European morning. The euro peaked just above $1.0880 and fell a little more …
Read More – For all the media ink spilled, including by Reuters’ excellent Asia fixed income correspondent Umesh Desai, you’d think the ongoing fight in Hong Kong between severely-troubled Chinese real estate developer Kaisa …
Read More None of us have a complete lock on all the great ideas, or even all the great writing. My colleague and friend, Sy Harding, publishes Street Smart Report Online (386-943-4081) …
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Street Signs Is the market poised for a correction? It’s been March Madness for Mr. Market–one week the trend is down, the next week it’s up. So, where’s it heading …
Read More Previously, we looked at how to decide whether to trade Forex, Futures, or ETFs. It is also useful to know exactly what all these different and often confusing terms mean, so it is …
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After the 2008 financial crisis, hostile corporate takeovers fell out of favor. The high debt loads associated with them simply turned companies off. But after several years of the Fed’s …
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