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EUR/USD Tests Resistance After CPI Data

EUR/USD Tests Resistance After CPI Data

EUR/USD 2 Hour Chart   (Created using Marketscope 2.0 Charts) The EUR/USD is testing resistance this morning, but has failed to breakout despite a series of high importance news events. This morning EUR German CPI (YoY) figures were released at .3%. This was better than the expected value of .1%. Even with this news, the […]
Central Banks: Less Pain Now Often Brings More Pain Later

Central Banks: Less Pain Now Often Brings More Pain Later

Fed Playing A Dangerous Game Yellow flags are waving in numerous corners of the market regarding global central banks. As illustrated recently with the three legs of the stool story, monetary policy is not immune to the law of diminishing returns. From The Wall Street Journal: Central bankers are playing a dangerous game, and they are running out […]
Solid Sale Of 7 Year Paper Ends Streak Of Poor Treasury Auctions

Solid Sale Of 7 Year Paper Ends Streak Of Poor Treasury Auctions

Following two disappointing auctions earlier this week when first the 2Y and then the 5Y auctions either demonstrated a substantial drop off in bid-side interest or priced wildly through the when issued, we said to await today’s 7Y auction for the true picture of demand for primary paper, as the first auction took place when […]
SharePlanner Reversal Indicator: Sellers Remain On The Sidelines

SharePlanner Reversal Indicator: Sellers Remain On The Sidelines

We had a very light and shallow sell-off last week, and sometimes that is as good as you will get in a monster rally like we are in.  When the bears have every opportunity to kill a rally and pull the market back some and they fail to do so, that isn’t the time to double down […]
Five S&P 500-Beating Stocks To Buy For The Rest Of 2016

Five S&P 500-Beating Stocks To Buy For The Rest Of 2016

Worries over the global economic outlook, along with volatile oil prices and commodities rout, have led investors to dump riskier stocks and scurry toward safe-haven assets, such as gold and government bonds. While the U.S. economy with its moderate growth expectations amid the global mayhem offers an attractive investment opportunity, the global concerns have spread […]
2007 All Over Again, Part 4: “We Are Outsourcing Our Monetary Policy”

2007 All Over Again, Part 4: “We Are Outsourcing Our Monetary Policy”

<< Read More: 2007 All Over Again? Let Us Count The Ways (And Remember What Happened Then) – Part 1 << Read More: 2007 All Over Again? Mega-Merger Edition – Part 2 <<Read more: 2007 All Over Again: Banks Starting To Implode – Part 3 In that deservedly-famous 2006 CNBC debate between Peter Schiff and economist Arthur Laffer (in […]
What This Week’s Federal Reserve Interest Rate News Means For Markets In 2016

What This Week’s Federal Reserve Interest Rate News Means For Markets In 2016

Global stocks and commodities are rallying today (Wednesday) following the U.S.Federal Reserve interest rate announcement from Chair Janet Yellen yesterday. Yellen was extremely dovish in yesterday’s Federal Reserve interest rate statement, saying the central bank needs to remain cautious when hiking rates this year. The Fed has also cut the number of rate hikes it plans to hold […]
Crude Crashes Into Red Post-Yellen

Crude Crashes Into Red Post-Yellen

Well, that escalated quickly… Gold is clinging to unch, bonds are down, and now crude has crashed back into the red post-Yellen…   Only stocks remain positive – which makes perfect sense given Yellen’s implied downgrade of every positive economic indicator (and the 22.5x GAAP P/E).
Can Big Money Limit The Upside Potential For Facebook Stock?

Can Big Money Limit The Upside Potential For Facebook Stock?

123RF On the 4th of March, Eric Chemi announced on CNBC that Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) is now among the top 20 most widely held stocks. This is the first time that Facebook has made it on the top 20 list of the most held stocks among institutional equity investors. Facebook surged from a ranking of 23rd in September […]