Presented with little comment aside to ask, WTF? Â It seems there is a lesson here for all… push your unemployment rate to record highs, loan delinquencies to record highs, …
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Opening Market Commentary For 04-04-2014 Premarkets were sailing along at +0.05% until the ‘not-so-good’ March Payroll and Unemployment came in as a miss. The ‘Taper the Taper’ advocates jumped in …
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Here are the lead paragraphs from the Employment Situation Summary released this morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics: Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 192,000 in March, and the unemployment rate …
Read More Yield spreads are up big this morning. It’s a positive alignment for the precious metals and for the regular market? Not so much today… 10 year & 2 year yields …
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Another day, another pre-market pump and post-open dump… it seems a missed jobs number and a determined Fed is not a recipe to maintaining all-time record highs and hyper-growth expectations… …
Read More Thanks a Bunch, but Keep the Advice to Yourself Please … The most amusing moment of Mr. Draghi’s press conference after yesterday’s ECB board meeting, was when he proceeded to …
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 The March 2014 BLS jobs report headlines were slightly weaker than expected. But the unadjusted data says this report is relatively strong. The growth trend lines are still decelerating …
Read More Sorry, but this “rally” is just too much BS for me.  As you can see from Dave Fry’s SPY chart, we’re running up on ZERO volume in the Futures and …
Read More Mastercard (MA) is has done some interesting things in gapping up on volume to form left side of the Head, then wiping those momos out on the other side and …
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With the market focus at the NFP number release will be on one simple statistic: did the March Payrolls number beat or miss the nice round number expected of 200K …
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