Time For Bulls To Be Skeptical – Weekly Market Outlook
After five weeks of bullishness that took stocks to record highs, it didn’t come as a complete surprise to see the market take a modest tumble last week. Â All told, …
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Insider Trading Report Edition #195: Notable Buys And Sales
Welcome to edition 195 of Insider Weekends. Insider buying declined sharply last week with insiders purchasing $37.85 million of their stock compared to $81.57 million in the week prior. Selling increased …
Read More Sector Detector: Utilities Plow Ahead While Market Takes An Overdue Breather
The weakness last week in U.S. stocks was entirely expected. As I mentioned in last weekend’s article, the technical condition had become quite overbought and the market was overdue to …
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Yuan Implied Volatility Spikes To 2-Year High As PBOC Widens Trading Bans (Slows Carry Trade)
While Goldman is quickly down-playing the decision by the PBOC to double the size of the daily trading bands for USDCNY to +/2.0% as a risk-off event (just as it was in …
Read More World Markets Weekend Update: Worst Week In Two Calendar Years
At Friday’s close the eight markets on my world watch list turned in their worst collective weekly average of the past two calendar years, an eye-opening -3.19%. The second worse …
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Nikkei Forecast 17-24 March 2014
Econintersect: Christopher Lewis if FX Empire has posted a video which gives his summary of the weekly outlook for thew Nikkei 225 Index in Tokyo. He is looking for an …
Read More A Lender Carry Trade; An Old Theme Revisited
Excerpted from this week’s premium report, NFTRH 282: Last June when tidbits about a would-be future ‘taper’ of T bond purchases (QE) were popping up in the media NFTRH 241 (June 2, …
Read More Weighing The Week Ahead: Yellen Takes The Stage
Rightly or wrongly, markets continue the Fed fixation. Many expect (or demand?) a change in Fed policy. This week marks the first FOMC meeting with Janet Yellen as the Chair. …
Read More What GM, GS And XOM Do, So Does The Broad Market
Over years working with professional traders, I’ve found it interesting how each individual has their bellwether stock they follow to gauge the stock markets trend and identify reversals before they occur. …
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What’s Behind The Sudden Improvement In US Loan Growth?
Credit growth in the US seems to have stabilized and may be on the rise. It’s worth mentioning that the bottom in loan growth just happened to correspond to the …
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