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Stock Market “Going Nowhere” Short To Medium Term

Stock Market “Going Nowhere” Short To Medium Term

Stock market indexes gain around 1 percent today. Small cap index Russell 2000 is about close around 1382 points, a gain of 1.15 percent, the best performing U.S. stock market index of the day. How meaningful was today’s strong day in the stock market mean in the bigger picture? In order to answer that question, […]
Buy-Ranked Mid-Cap ETFs For A Shaky Market

Buy-Ranked Mid-Cap ETFs For A Shaky Market

The first quarter was great for the U.S. stock market with the major benchmarks logging in the best quarterly performance in many years. However, the bullish trend seems to be stalling with the rise in volatility and uncertainty as well as fading of Trump trade. This is especially true against the backdrop of feeble data […]
Stocks, Dollar, Yields Rally On Mnuchin Tax Cut Comments

Stocks, Dollar, Yields Rally On Mnuchin Tax Cut Comments

In a day full of upside catalyst for the reflation trade including the strong TIPS auction, the speculation that the Obamacare repeal effort is back on track, and perhaps best of all the absence of hard data (today’s Philly Fed “soft data” was, well, quite soft), the dollar, the S&P and Treasury yields all rose, […]
Bonds Lead The Way Before The SPX Rallies

Bonds Lead The Way Before The SPX Rallies

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Philip Morris Earnings, Sales Miss Estimates In Q1

Philip Morris Earnings, Sales Miss Estimates In Q1

Philip Morris International Inc. (PM – Free Report) reported weaker-than-expected first-quarter 2017 results, wherein both earnings and revenues lagged the Zacks Consensus Estimate. Shares were down 3.4% in the pre-market trading. The weak results were primarily due to lower cigarette volume and certain timing factors. Adjusted earnings per share of 98 cents missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of […]
The Blockchain Could Change The Backbone Of The Stock Market

The Blockchain Could Change The Backbone Of The Stock Market

Modern technology enables stock markets to be faster and more complex than ever. But while the speed of order executions are infinitely more impressive across the board, the conceptual backbone behind the stock market itself hasn’t changed much. In fact, the model we use today for settling trades and ensuring proper share ownership is still […]
The Fiduciary Rule Educates The Public

The Fiduciary Rule Educates The Public

Our Chief Compliance officer Rafael Perez provides a good overview of the Fiduciary Rule below. In coming months, he’ll be writing a series of articles on legal standards related to brokers and advisers. Our industry has become a thicket of rules and regulations with compliance an increasingly complicated and costly issue for RIA firms. As […]
Better Than Expected

Better Than Expected

A few trading days ago, I suggested shorting Diana Shipping. It went great, but I covered way too soon. It simply keeps falling (I’ve marked my “short” point with an arrow). I mentioned this before, but one of my readers got bent out of shape than I dared show a picture of Lady Diana, but, meh, you get a […]
INDU And The 200 Point Move

INDU And The 200 Point Move

The INDU is up more than 200 points today, what is the reason? Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said today that the U.S. is closing in on presenting a substantial tax reform. “We’re pretty close to being able to bring forward what’s going to be major tax reform,” Mnuchin said while speaking at the IIF Policy […]
You Only Need One Chart

You Only Need One Chart

Do you want a “pure” look at how disconnected equities have become from the economic realities of the reflation narrative? Sure you do. And your interest is appreciated by RBC’s Charlie McElligott who has the following chart for you: (BBG, RBC) We don’t really aspire to much in the way of professional standards here at HR […]