Financial

  MBA Purchase Applications Highlights: Mortgage purchase applications rose 3.0 percent in the March 21 week but failed to lift the year-on-year rate which is down a very sharp 17.0 …

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  The Dow Jones is at the upper channel, price may break through as a tease, or as we suspect just roll over. readtheticker.com site is issuing a market CAUTION. …

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“Russia was unable to seize Ukraine by means of military aggression,” Ukraine’s PM Yatsenyuk blasted, “Now they are implementing plans to seize Ukraine through economic aggression.” His comments come after Russia’s Gazprom …

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The quotes in this post’s subject line are very much intended as a double entendre. I’m of course referring to the title of Piketty’s book (which I’ve read about 80% of, jumping …

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Welcome to edition 198 of Insider Weekends. Insider buying increased last week with insiders purchasing $49.28 million of their stock compared to $28.5 million in the week prior. Selling increased sharply with …

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FX Traders’ weekly EURUSD fundamental & technical picture, this week’s market drivers that could change it- the bullish, the bearish and likely EURUSD direction short, medium, long term The following …

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Large losses on weak jobs data offered bears an opportunity to go on the offensive.  The S&P was least affected by Friday’s sell off, but still enough to finish the …

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The level of employment in the United States has been declining since the year 2000.  There have been moments when things have appeared to have been getting better for a …

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Markets Rarely Fall When People Expect Them To Signals suggest you should, “Fight your fear.” Geez, a couple of bad days on the momentum stocks and traders have turned extremely …

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Walter Bagehot described the lender of last resort function of the Bank of England in his classic ‘Lombard Street: a description of the money market‘, which is available online for …

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