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Volatile Long-Range Weather Models Continue To Whipsaw Natural Gas

Volatile Long-Range Weather Models Continue To Whipsaw Natural Gas

December natural gas prices went for a ride today, bouncing off resistance just below $3.16 and selling heavily into support below around the $3.05 level. We saw a bullish run of the American GFS operational guidance with a major medium-range cold shot help push prices into resistance, but when the model’s own ensemble members did […]
7 Low Price-To-Sales Stocks To Buy For A Strong Portfolio

7 Low Price-To-Sales Stocks To Buy For A Strong Portfolio

Though Price-to-Earnings is the first thing to cross one’s mind while using valuation metrics, Price-to-Sales has emerged as a convenient tool to determine the value of stocks that are incurring losses or are in an early cycle of development, generating meager or no profits. While a loss-making company with a negative Price-to-Earnings ratio falls out […]
Household Debt And Credit Report: Up $116B In Q3, Another Peak

Household Debt And Credit Report: Up $116B In Q3, Another Peak

The latest household debt for Q3 2017 was up 0.9% from Q2 and currently at $12.96T and currently at its peak. Here is an excerpt from the latest press release: NEW YORK – The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Center for Microeconomic Data today issued its Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit, which reported […]
Victoria’s Secret Parent L Brands (LB) Q3 Earnings In-Line, Comps Down 3%

Victoria’s Secret Parent L Brands (LB) Q3 Earnings In-Line, Comps Down 3%

L Brands Inc. (LB – Free Report) just released its third quarter fiscal 2017 earnings results, posting earnings of 30 cents per share and revenues of $2.6 billion. Currently, LB is a #3 (Hold) on the Zacks Rank, and is down 4.4% to $47.09 per share in trading shortly after its earnings report was released. […]
Can’t Hide From The CPI

Can’t Hide From The CPI

On the vital matter of missing symmetry, consumer price indices across the world keep suggesting there remains none. Recoveries were called “V” shaped for a reason. Any economy knocked down would be as intense in getting back up, normal cyclical forces creating momentum for that to (only) happen. In the context of the past three years, […]
Foreigners Splurge On US Stocks: Buy Second-Most US Equities In 8 Years

Foreigners Splurge On US Stocks: Buy Second-Most US Equities In 8 Years

Last week we reported that in October, a record month in which Japanese stocks saw just one losing day in the entire month, foreigners bought a record amount of Japanese equities. It wasn’t just Japan, however, where the international community was busy buying. According to the just released TIC data, foreigner accounts, both official and private, […]
Video: Bitcoin Geometry Explained

Video: Bitcoin Geometry Explained

Bitcoin analysis – Video presentation by Scott Hathaway, CFTe, geometric analysis of Bitcoin (XBT/USD). Video length 00:09:44.
U.S. Inflation Rises Marginally In October

U.S. Inflation Rises Marginally In October

Weak gasoline prices impacted headline inflation in October, the Labor Department reported on Wednesday. The Consumer Price Index, which measures inflation, climbed 0.1 percent in October following a 0.5 percent jump in September. On a yearly basis, consumer prices dropped from 2.2 percent in September to 2 percent in October. Even though rents and healthcare costs […]
Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – Stock Options Expiration On Friday (As If Maybe Someone Could Hear)

Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – Stock Options Expiration On Friday (As If Maybe Someone Could Hear)

We will have a stock option expiration on Friday.  I believe that this is driving some of the action in the precious metals. Not in the metal itself, but by extension to the miners which follow the price of the metals, and tend to be a favorite of options players, and a rather volatile crew.
Openly Mocking Us

Openly Mocking Us

The other day, CALPERS created a little bit of a stir with news they were considering increasing their bond allocation while selling down the stock portion of their portfolio. From Reuters: The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the largest U.S. pension fund, is considering more than doubling its bond allocation to reduce risk and volatility […]