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Japanese Yen: No End In Sight For Accommodative Monetary Policy

Japanese Yen: No End In Sight For Accommodative Monetary Policy

Fundamental Forecast for JPY: Bearish The Bank of Japan Governor could not have been clearer: there’s no end in sight for accommodative monetary policy. Japan’s economy is looking healthier but inflation remains benign. Speaking in Washington Friday, Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda had a simple message: the current pace of quantitative and qualitative easing, or […]
Knife Edge: ECB Readies For Sunday Emergency, One Analyst Says “Keep Your Head”

Knife Edge: ECB Readies For Sunday Emergency, One Analyst Says “Keep Your Head”

There’s a lot to like about what you’ll read at the end of this post from Bloomberg’s Cameron Crise. You’ll note that everything he says has been variously discussed in these pages exhaustively over the past several weeks. There’s the “gridlock” problem, there’s a reminder about how quickly this market has learned to BTFD on potentially destabilizing […]
Forex Ranking, Rating And Score For Week 17 / 2017

Forex Ranking, Rating And Score For Week 17 / 2017

The Top 10 of the Ranking and Rating list for the coming week shows the following stronger currencies being well represented for going long: the JPY (4X) with the GBP(4X). The weaker currencies are the CAD(4X) followed by the AUD(2X) with the EUR(2X). A nice combination for coming week may be e.g: CAD/JPY with the […]
3 Reasons I Prefer Southern Company Over Exelon

3 Reasons I Prefer Southern Company Over Exelon

Utility stocks are a haven for investors seeking reliable dividend income. Utilities became known as “widow and orphan” stocks, meaning they were extremely safe investments. Southern Company (SO) is a very high-quality utility dividend stock. It is a Dividend Achiever, a group of 265 stocks with 10+ years of consecutive dividend increases. Meanwhile, Exelon (EXC) is also […]
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                        Market Briefing For Monday, April 24

E Market Briefing For Monday, April 24

Overwhelming defensive fears combined with weak oil, to deliver Friday defensive, if indecisive, behavior, very much in line with our idea of fake-out nominal moves above the 50-Day. These have minimal sustainability since they are primarily a series of short squeezes, which never warrant the ‘hurry what do we buy’ stock market pitches that come right-back to […]
Uranium Miners Still Bullish Though Close To Breakdown

Uranium Miners Still Bullish Though Close To Breakdown

The uranium space is creating suspension among investors. The most popular uranium mining ETF URA dropped 4.6 percent last week. With that, it breached a major support level, and that could become major news. InvestingHaven has written repeatedly about the importance of 15 points in URA: Uranium miners URA: What happens at $15 has huge implications Uranium miners […]
Central Banks Give “All Clear” To BTFD If French Election Upsets Market

Central Banks Give “All Clear” To BTFD If French Election Upsets Market

Having already ‘dropped’ over one trillion dollars in 2017 to keep reality at bay, it appears the world’s central bankers are not about to let a French election mishap spoil the illusion. Just as central bankers gathered at The BIS’ Basel Tower just says before the Brexit vote , so judging by the statements today, the monetary manipulators stand […]
These 5 Retail Stocks Are Special This Earnings Season

These 5 Retail Stocks Are Special This Earnings Season

Barring a few hiccups, year 2017 has so far turned out to be a great one for investors. As the earnings season ramps up, the overall picture emerging for this reporting cycle is skewed toward the positive with a projected sequential increase in earnings and revenues. Hence, investors need to replenish their portfolio with stocks […]
Goldman: These Sectors Won’t Be Able To Resist Online Disruption For Long

Goldman: These Sectors Won’t Be Able To Resist Online Disruption For Long

The disruption of the physical retail market by online retailers has been one of the main stories on Wall Street since the beginning of the dot-com boom nearly two decades ago. And as the closure of brick and mortar stores has accelerated over the past year or so speculation about what the future holds for […]
Forex Strength And Comparison For Week 17 / 2017

Forex Strength And Comparison For Week 17 / 2017

In the Currency Strength table, the JPY was again the strongest currency while the CAD was the weakest. There were some significant changes last week with the CHF gaining 4 points and the EUR 2 points. The AUD lost 5 points and the CAD 2 points. The other currencies remained around the same level of last week with a […]