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A Worrisome Slide For Inflation Expectations

A Worrisome Slide For Inflation Expectations

The Federal Reserve may start raising interest rates next year for the first time in nearly a decade, but the focus at the moment is on deflation risk, or so it seems by way of the market’s softer inflation forecast via a closely followed yield spread in Treasuries. The implied outlook for inflation slumped to […]
Crude Oil Is Crashing, It Could Reach $35 Level Says Joe Friday

Crude Oil Is Crashing, It Could Reach $35 Level Says Joe Friday

CLICK ON CHART TO ENLARGE Around 60-Days ago the Power of the Pattern suggested that the “most important commodity on the planet” should be on its way to $70 zone if the bottom of the pennant pattern broke support. (Post Here)  Well 64 days later Crude Oil has broken the bottom of the pennant pattern […]
Morning Call For November 28, 2014

Morning Call For November 28, 2014

OVERNIGHT MARKETS AND NEWS December E-mini S&Ps (ESZ14 -0.12%) this morning are down -0.22% and European stocks are down -0.37%% as energy producing stocks sank after OPEC refrained from reducing output and kept its production ceiling of 30 million bpd. The inaction by OPEC prompted a plunge in crude prices to a 4-1/2 year low and drove down the […]
Market Catches Breath After Yesterday’s OPEC-Induced Moves

Market Catches Breath After Yesterday’s OPEC-Induced Moves

OPEC decision to roll-over existing quotas sent oil prices sharply lower, pushed European bonds and stocks higher, and generally gave the US dollar a boost. Today’s theme is more consolidative in nature. At the same time, the dollar’s firmer tone against the yen helped lift the Nikkei while European stocks and bonds are struggling to extend […]
OPEC’s Crude Bloodbath Sends 10 Year To 2.20%, Energy Companies Tumble

OPEC’s Crude Bloodbath Sends 10 Year To 2.20%, Energy Companies Tumble

The biggest, and most market-moving, event overnight continues to be yesterday’s shocking OPEC announcement, which is still reverberating across the energy space as markets largely ignore European and Japanese inflation data which is once again sliding back dangerously fast, or Italian unemployment which rose more than expected, and joined France in hitting a new record […]
Gold – A Revival

Gold – A Revival

The Swiss referendum will be the this weekend to prevent the central bank from selling its gold. While Swiss sources say this is really about a protest against the central bank policy since they pegged the Franc to the Euro incurring tremendous losses, the Swiss are now watching their currency decline with the Euro. There […]
EUR/USD Forecast: Nov. 28, 2014

EUR/USD Forecast: Nov. 28, 2014

The EUR/USD pair has been in a massive downtrend for some time. However, during the entirety of November, we have seen quite a bit of consolidation near the 1.25 handle. I think that the market is probably due for a bounce at this point, and as you see on the chart I have highlighted the […]
Put It This Way – Profiting From Put Options

Put It This Way – Profiting From Put Options

by Russ Allen Recently I’ve written about hedging strategies that use options. One of the strategies I’ve described was buying put options as insurance. Another was selling covered call options against the stock position, to reduce its cost and therefore its risk. Yet another was to combine those two strategies, in what is known as […]
The Future Of Social Media

The Future Of Social Media

Photo Credit: Shutterstock, BELGRADE – MAY 04, 2014 Popular social media website logos In today’s digital age, social-media networks will always exist in one form or another because Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn – and all of the others – are just modern communications channels. The key is to understand the greater context. Mass communication has existed […]