S&P 500 Snapshot: Selling The Start Of The Q4 Earnings Season
With Q4 earnings season ready to shift into high gear, the US indexes shifted into retreat. The S&P 500 opened fractionally lower, rose to its 0.06% intraday high an hour …
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USD/JPY Outlook For 2014 From ForexAlerts.ca
We think that USD/JPY will correct before trading significantly higher. The correction will be swift and fast, with most of the market participants not expecting it to happen. We are …
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4-Week Bill Prices At 0.000%, Bid To Cover Soars To Highest Since 2011
Stocks may be masquerading as a big bounce today, driven by a VIX slam which has gotten the algos to ramp the S&P higher and of course a perfectly innocuous …
Read More Stock Trading Lessons Sinking In… DDD Covered
In stock trading I am definitely suspect, in that I tend not to have precision type discipline. I have a good enough psych profile, but I can be hesitant and …
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Bank Of America Corp. – The Good, Bad And Ugly!
B of AÂ (BAC)Â continues to be one of the leading Ex-Dow 30 – Industrials composite Companies. It is on a Strong Hold, but my Indicators are breaking down. I believe it …
Read More How [They] Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The [Market]
How I [they] Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb [Market]  paraphrasing Stanley Kubrick’s great cold war/nuclear paranoia film Dr. Strangelove (1964). The USA thrived during a 20th century rife with war, famine and …
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Greek Deflation Continues For 10th Straight Month; Stocks Up 19% In 9 Days
The Greek economy initially slipped into a deflationary trend in March 2013 and for the 10th month in a row in December, Bloomberg’s Niraj Shah notes that EU-harmonized consumer prices …
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Retail Sales OK In December 2013
Retail sales were up according to US Census. Our analysis agreed, and it is positive that the 3 month rolling average did marginally improve.  Econintersect Analysis: unadjusted sales rate of …
Read More JPMorgan Non-GAAP Revenues Beat, GAAP Miss; Earnings Boosted By $1.3 Billion Loan Reserve Release
Non-GAAP EPS, sure. But non-GAAP revenues? Up until today one would think that kind of accounting gimmickry is solely reserved for the profitless one-hit wonders of the world, i.e. Tesla, …
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Budget Deal Funds Government Through Fiscal 2014
For the first time since Barack Obama became president the U.S. Congress has agreed to a compromise budget that is expected to pass both the House and the Senate. It is …
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