Financial

We were perhaps even more amused than our readers by our Friday headline “Stocks Close At New Record High On Russian Invasion, GDP Decline And Pending Home Sales Miss.” It …

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In this podcast, I touch upon a host of topics addressed in my book including serious allegations and evidence connected to the misappropriation of funds and insider trading within Wall …

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An astute reader pointed out some qualifications to my Friday post on 529 college savings accounts – specifically, reasons not to fund them.  The most compelling reason, coincidentally covered in the next …

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  After a small hiccup, markets are again back on track with the S&P 500 now posting a modest gain for the first two months of the year. This quick …

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It may have been modest, but the modest move made by the market last week pushed stocks above a very significant hurdle, which has big implications from here.  In other words, …

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UPDATE:*CHINA HSBC MANUFACTURING PMI AT 48.5 FOR FEB. (as expected and marginally above the Flash print) Chinese manufacturing PMI fell to an 8-month low holding barely above the crucial 50 level …

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A weekly chart for an NFTRH subscriber and anyone else who is interested. Natural Gas fund UNG got over bought and has had a lot of post-breakout chop.  Those interested …

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The real breakouts occurred in the S&P and Russell 2000 on Thursday, although it was bit anti-climatic to see these indices make the push given the Nasdaq and Nasdaq 100 …

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Weather-Driven Rallies – Coffee Goes Bananas The top performing commodity so far this year has been coffee, which erased almost to years of declines within a few weeks in a …

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Econintersect:  The official government PMI (Purchasing Managers’ Index) for manufacturing came in lower than expected for February.  The index was 50.2, down from 50.5 for January and from 51.0 in …

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