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Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – FANG’d

Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – FANG’d

The results after the bell last night from the usual big cap tech suspects lit a fire until the Nasdaq 100, as you can see from the chart below.  That is the look of real pain for the big cap tech bears. There will be an FOMC meeting next week. President Trump has also indicated […]
Caterpillar (CAT): The Worst Appears To Be Over For This Quality Dividend Growth Stock

Caterpillar (CAT): The Worst Appears To Be Over For This Quality Dividend Growth Stock

Even blue chip dividend stocks can fall on hard times, especially when they operate in highly cyclical industries that depend on volatile commodity prices. Such was the case with Caterpillar (CAT), which despite an impressive track record of growing its dividend at an average rate of 11% over the past 20 years, was forced to […]
Chart Of The Day – Square

Chart Of The Day – Square

The Chart of the Day belongs to Square (SQ). It’s a repeat and since the last time it was Chart of the Day on 6/21 the stock gained 46.61%.I found the software stock by using Barchart to sort today’s Top Stocks to Own list first by Weighted Alpha, then again for technical buy signals of 80% or more.Next I used the […]
UniQure Announces Closing Of Its Public Offering

UniQure Announces Closing Of Its Public Offering

LEXINGTON, Mass. and AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, Oct. 27, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — uniQure N.V. (Nasdaq:QURE), a leading gene therapy company advancing transformative therapies for patients with severe unmet medical needs, such as hemophilia B, Huntington’s disease and congestive heart failure, today announced the closing of its underwritten public offering of 5,000,000 of its ordinary shares at a […]
GBP/USD Rally Next Week?

GBP/USD Rally Next Week?

  Next week is a big one for The Bank of England has a monetary policy announcement on the calendar and the market is pricing in an 89% chance of a rate hike. We’re not so sure that the BoE is ready to move especially given the recent weakness in retail sales, slowdown in CPI […]
Market Talk – Friday, October 27

Market Talk – Friday, October 27

The close of a healthy week and the Nikkei manages a close above the 22k figure. It has been flirting with the 22 handle all week and finally takes the YTD close above 15% and the 1yr to 27%. Initially, the rally was helped by the weaker Yen, which earlier was trading 114.20. This move […]
November Natural Gas Sinks Off The Board

November Natural Gas Sinks Off The Board

November natural gas prices sank off the board today, with the contract falling almost 5% before expiring. Cash prices also sank significantly on the day.  The result was that the most significant losses were at the front of the natural gas strip, though those losses carried along through much of the 2018 strip as well, […]
Bezos Beat Batters Bears But Bonds & Bullion Bounce

Bezos Beat Batters Bears But Bonds & Bullion Bounce

Overheard on CNBC today… “today we get proof this is not a bubble…” Video length: 00:02:44 Nope.. h/t @Stalingrad_Poor So Catalan secedes and Spain loses 22% of its GDP and still the Spanish stock market is outperforming the S&P in USD terms… Before we start – let’s take a quick look at today’s cross-asset-class moves – Stocks Up (well […]
ECB Announces Cuts To Bond-Buying Program: Why Did Markets Stay Calm?

ECB Announces Cuts To Bond-Buying Program: Why Did Markets Stay Calm?

Video Length: 00:06:35 On the latest edition of Market Week in Review, Chief Investment Strategist Erik Ristuben and Consulting Director Todd LaFountaine discussed the European Central Bank (ECB)’s recent announcement on changes to its bond-buying program. Draghi details scale-back of European economic stimulus program The bank announced Oct. 26 that it will cut the amount […]
ETFs To Gain On First Solar Q3 Earnings Beat

ETFs To Gain On First Solar Q3 Earnings Beat

Leading U.S. solar-panel manufacturer First Solar (FSLR – Free Report) reported third-quarter 2017 results after the closing bell yesterday. The company beat our estimates on earnings and revenues and raised its earnings outlook for the year. Earnings per share came in at $1.95, which easily surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 85 cents and improved from the […]