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What Blows Up First? Part 5: Shale Oil Junk Bonds

What Blows Up First? Part 5: Shale Oil Junk Bonds

One of the surest signs that a bubble is about to burst is junk bonds behaving like respectable paper. That is, their yields drop to mid-single digits, they start appearing with liberal loan covenants that display a high degree of trust in the issuer, and they start reporting really low default rates that lead the […]
A High-Yield Mortgage Play Without Mortgage Risk

A High-Yield Mortgage Play Without Mortgage Risk

The small-cap arena is where you are most likely to find stocks that deliver multiples of return, since it’s the small companies that grow to become the behemoths. Rarely, however, do you find a small-cap stock that offers a huge dividend. Even more rare is the small cap that offers a huge yield that is […]
T2108 Update – Onward And Upward

T2108 Update – Onward And Upward

(T2108 measures the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages [DMAs]. It helps to identify extremes in market sentiment that are likely to reverse. To learn more about it, see my T2108 Resource Page. You can follow real-time T2108 commentary on twitter using the #T2108 hashtag. T2108-related trades and other trades are sometimes posted on […]
Semiconductors Breakout, While S&P Makes Its Move

Semiconductors Breakout, While S&P Makes Its Move

A solid day for Semiconductors saw a solid breakout from the recent handle (without a violation of the measuring gap), which even managed to mount a challenge on the September ‘bull trap’. It still has a bit of work to do to get to new highs, but bulls have shown their hand, and now it’s […]
3 Of The 10 Largest Economies In The World Have Already Fallen Into Recession – Is The U.S. Next?

3 Of The 10 Largest Economies In The World Have Already Fallen Into Recession – Is The U.S. Next?

Are you waiting for the next major wave of the global economic collapse to strike?  Well, you might want to start paying attention again. Three of the ten largest economies on the planet have already fallen into recession, and there are very serious warning signs coming from several other global economic powerhouses. Things are already […]
Traders Cafe Charged With Being Depository To Steal Day Traders Funds

Traders Cafe Charged With Being Depository To Steal Day Traders Funds

from the Securities and Exchange Commission The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged an unregistered broker living outside Tampa, Florida, with stealing investor funds as part of a fraudulent day trading scheme. The SEC alleges that Albert J. Scipione and his business partner solicited investors to establish accounts at their company called Traders Café for […]
Norwegian Cruise Lines – Chart Of The Day

Norwegian Cruise Lines – Chart Of The Day

The Chart of the Day is Norwegian Cruise Lines (NASDAQ:NCLH). I found the stock by sorting All Time High list for the most frequent new highs in the last month then used the Flipchart feature to review the charts. Since the Trend Spotter signaled a buy on 10/28 the stock gained 15.26%. Norwegian Cruise Line is a cruise line operator. It […]
Euro Edges Higher On ZEW

Euro Edges Higher On ZEW

During early trade in Europe, the common currency Euro edged higher, regaining lost ground versus the U.S. Dollar, as investors turn their focus to the German ZEW survey, which measures investors’ sentiment. In Japan, the Yen edged lower ahead of an expected announcement by the Prime Minister of a snap election, and the likely news […]
Why Living In A Post-Bubble World Is No Fun

Why Living In A Post-Bubble World Is No Fun

What do we do when the bubble economy cannot be reflated? It is generally conceded that we are living in an era of Peak Everything: peak central bank omnipotence, peak powerless of the non-elites, peak wealth inequality, peak media-induced delusion, peak market-rigging, peak bogus official statistics, peak propaganda, peak bread and circuses, peak deception, peak distraction, […]
ARWR Files For Regulatory Permission To Begin Phase 1 Trial Of RNAi; TPIV Announces Phase II Clinical Trials With VGTI Florida

ARWR Files For Regulatory Permission To Begin Phase 1 Trial Of RNAi; TPIV Announces Phase II Clinical Trials With VGTI Florida

Arrowhead Research Corporation (NasdaqGS: ARWR), a biopharmaceutical company developing targeted RNAi therapeutics, today announced that it recently filed an application for approval to begin a Phase 1 clinical trial of its RNAi-based therapeutic candidate, ARC-AAT, for the treatment of liver disease associated with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency. Pending approval, Arrowhead intends to proceed with a double blind, […]