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Market Commentary: Markets Close Mixed, Sideways Trading All Afternoon
Written by Gary The averages have closed all over the place. The DOW closed flat and in the red while the small caps closed fractionally higher in the green. Volume was low for most of the afternoon with some moderate trading at the close. By 4 pm the averages looked weak and uninspiring as we suspected […]
Smart Oil Is Cheap Oil: Rudolf Hokanson
Even a global economic growth slowdown will not seriously impact the future of the shale oil patch, Rudolf “Rudy” Hokanson tells The Energy Report. The Barrington Research analyst’s job is to think long and hard about the target prices he assigns to the best and brightest junior firms playing in the Bakken and other shales. He likes […]
E Two Investment Options For The Security Sector Bull Market
Recently I wrote about the risk of cyber crime on the investment scene in Caveat Emptor. The article emphasizes the need to mitigate the risk of cyber security in your portfolio. To do this, I suggest reviewing company’s published statistics on the cost of online crime. I also suggest gaining an understanding of the broad […]
Texas Tea & Treasury Yields Tumble As Trannies Top The Day
Never in the history of US equity markets has the S&P 500 closed above its 5-day moving average for 28 days in a row… until today. While most indices tracked sideways in a very narrow range today, Trannies outperformed (helped by weaker oil, but even when oil rallied intraday Trannies rallied too). VIX tracked back below […]
Is Defensive Sector Leadership Forecasting Slower Growth?
Utilities and Health Care. These are the top two sectors in the S&P 500 this year, which may come as a surprise to many as we’re being told that economic growth is set to accelerate. Given this defensive leadership, one would assume the financial markets and economy would be having a more difficult year in 2014. As […]
Central Bank “Wealth Effects” Doctrine At Work
The purpose of central bank financial repression and ZIRP is to distort and inflate asset prices. Our monetary politburo even admits that it is in the monetary scam business via its self-serving doctrine called “wealth effects”. The game here is to drive the stock market averages ever higher through massive liquidity injections into the Wall Street dealer markets. […]
SP 500 And NDX Futures Daily Charts – Big Wheel Keep On Turning
The GDP estimate came in on the high side revision today showing what a marvelous recovery we are enjoying. Too bad not much else is showing growth. Maybe this is one of those recoveries that is localized to the well-to-do. The market is drifting higher on low volumes, and do not expect tomorrow to be […]
The 5 Best Mid Caps
Today I wanted to find the 5 mid cap stocks with the most consistent upward momentum. I used Barchart to sort the S&P 400 Mid Cap Index stocks to find the 5 that had the most new highs in the last month. Today’s list includes Thor Industries (NYSE:THO), CST Brands (NYSE:CST), Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE:BR), Domino’s Pizza (NYSE:DPZ) and Ingredion (NYSE:INGR): Thor Industries (THO) Barchart technical indicators: 80% […]
The Fed To Raise Interest Rates Early?
The US economy is going full speed ahead and, as a consequence, the central bank has halted QE. The Federal Reserve chose to switch off the money printer and it seems like most investors did not have too much of a problem with that. What happened after that, all went really fast. The Bank of […]
NYSE Margin Debt Declines In October
Note from dshort: The NYSE has released new data for margin debt, now available through October. I’ve updated the charts in this commentary to include the latest numbers. The New York Stock Exchange publishes end-of-month data for margin debt on the NYXdata website, where we can also find historical data back to 1959. Let’s examine the numbers […]
