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Percentage Of Junk Investors Raising Cash Explodes, Number Reporting Below Average Cash Position Halves

Percentage Of Junk Investors Raising Cash Explodes, Number Reporting Below Average Cash Position Halves

Whatever you do, don’t you try and say we didn’t warn you. Time after time, post after post, we’ve said the same thing: high yield is a bubble. The fundamentals are bad, the rally is overdone, and the spread compression off last year’s wides is nothing short of spectacular. Now, we’re seeing that bubble burst. If […]
Asian Markets Give Mixed Signals: ETFs In Focus

Asian Markets Give Mixed Signals: ETFs In Focus

China’s producer price index (PPI) rose 7.8% in February from a year earlier, slightly more than analysts’ estimates of 7.7%, and at the fastest pace since September 2008 per the National Bureau of Statistics. These gains were mainly driven by the mining and heavy industry, which witnessed a gain of 36.1%. Iron ore and steel […]
Goldman: Investors Will Soon Capitulate

Goldman: Investors Will Soon Capitulate

After the inflation in P/E multiples has sent the S&P 500 to to a level above the 90% percentile of all historical valuations, Goldman has called a time out, and says that there will be no more multiple expansion. As a result only one thing will push stock prices higher “as equity valuations compress as interest […]
Analysts Predict These 5 Casino & Gaming Stocks Will Be Winners

Analysts Predict These 5 Casino & Gaming Stocks Will Be Winners

TM Editors’ Note: This article discusses one or more penny stocks/mini caps. Such stocks can be easily manipulated; do your own careful due diligence. In this article we identify those Canadian casino and gaming stocks that analysts predict will have year-over-year growth in revenues and, to further compare their profiles, we provide enterprise value-to-sales metrics. [Figures […]
How Financially Open Is The World?

How Financially Open Is The World?

Hiro Ito, who updates our de jure financial openness index (sometimes known as the Chinn-Ito index), has recently calculated GDP-weighted averages of the indices for country categories. The stylized facts regarding the evolution of openness changes, particularly with regard to emerging market economies. First, here are the typically reported simple average series, standardized to range between 0 and […]
Strong Jobs Report Gives Yellen Green Light As Oil Gets Rocked

Strong Jobs Report Gives Yellen Green Light As Oil Gets Rocked

“Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.”  – Nancy Pearcy   As a boy and later a young man growing up, I was ultra competitive and took losing very hard.  The same can be said for many people, but consider yourself […]
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                        Market Briefing For Monday, March 13

E Market Briefing For Monday, March 13

Antsy trepidation aptly describes the week just past, as markets were for the most part trying to anticipate the implications of everything forthcoming in a monetary and economic sense; while fending off softer oil and ‘bubble’ talk from some of the normally sanguine strategists (who mostly missed the Trump post-election rally). Lots of oscillations; and finishes […]
What To Expect This Week

What To Expect This Week

In this weekend’s special edition video let’s look at what to expect this week. There is a lot higher risk on the table than there has been in the last few months. This video also includes an important explanation into how major firms are hedging in this current market environment and how it impacts what […]
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                        Looking Ahead To The Q1 Earnings Season

EC Looking Ahead To The Q1 Earnings Season

For most folks, earnings season means the 4 to 6 week period at the end of each calendar quarter when announcements of quarterly earnings releases dominate market headlines. For folks like us, however, who have to monitor and record each and every earnings release, the definition and duration of each earnings season isn’t that simple. […]
Narrowing Fed Interest Rate Forecast To Curb Bullish USD/JPY Outlook

Narrowing Fed Interest Rate Forecast To Curb Bullish USD/JPY Outlook

Fundamental Forecast for the Japanese Yen: Neutral USD/JPY Bull Trend but Lots to Deal With Around 115.00 USD/JPY Clears FEB High; Topside Hurdles in Focus Ahead of NFP Report Nikkei 225 Battle Lines Drawn- Key Levels to Know AUD/JPY Struggles to Retain 2017 Holding Pattern, Threatens 50-Day SMA USD/JPY stands at risk of facing increased volatility […]