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Cloud Security With The Zscaler IPO

Cloud Security With The Zscaler IPO

In case you haven’t noticed we’ve seen an acceleration of enterprise cloud adoption. Stocks like Nutanix (NTNX), Twilio (TWLO), MongoDB (MDB) and Okta (OKTA) have all taken off in the past few weeks on the back of improving fundamentals. The shift is captured in a quote overheard during an industry conversation – “large companies are now moving their core […]
First Half Of 2018 To See Weak Economic Growth

First Half Of 2018 To See Weak Economic Growth

Stocks Decline Over Trade War Fears The Dow had the worst day of the major indexes as it fell 1%. It underperformed because Boeing fell 2.5%. Boeing is a high priced stock which matters in the price weighted Dow. The S&P 500 was down 0.57% as it makes its way back to the mid point […]
Uranium Continues To Be Mildly Bullish. Time To Accumulate?

Uranium Continues To Be Mildly Bullish. Time To Accumulate?

The uranium market is one of our favorite markets since October 2016 when uranium markets set a higher low on its secular chart (middle green circle annotated on below chart). That was a first sign of a major trend change, way before the breakout of 2017 took place. Early last year there was this mega […]
USD: Fade Any White House Personnel Driven Rebound In The USD

USD: Fade Any White House Personnel Driven Rebound In The USD

The US Dollar was rocking and rolling on the reshuffling at the White House. Tillerson and Cohn out, Kudlow and Pompeo in. How should this be traded? Here is the view from Credit Suisse. Here is their view, courtesy of eFXnews: Credit Suisse Research discusses the USD outlook and maintains a bearish bias, arguing that the […]
Venezuela’s 4,000% Hyperinflation ‘Breaks’ Cash-Weighing Scales

Venezuela’s 4,000% Hyperinflation ‘Breaks’ Cash-Weighing Scales

Mired in a brutal economic collapse, Venezuela refuses to publish basic statistics. So Bloomberg created their own gauge to measure one of the most important of all the missing figures – inflation (or hyperinflation in this case). Bloomberg created their own gauge, as the name would suggest, it tracks just one item: a cup of coffee served […]
Yield Curve Turns Threatening – Again

Yield Curve Turns Threatening – Again

For a while there it looked like the blow-off top of this expansion was somewhere in the future. Now it’s starting to look like 2017 was as good as it’s going to get – with serious implications for stocks, bonds and real estate. At least that’s what interest rates now seem to imply. From today’s […]
Soft PPI & Retail Sales Reports

Soft PPI & Retail Sales Reports

PPI Inflation Index Echoes Recent Trend The recent data for February shows inflation isn’t reaching the same rate it was at in January. It appears analysts got too excited about the reports to start the year. Everyone got on the inflation bandwagon because of low unemployment and the length of this business cycle, but those […]
Most Active Equity Options And Strikes For Midday – Thursday, Mach 15

Most Active Equity Options And Strikes For Midday – Thursday, Mach 15

Top tickers for midday: BAC, F, BABA, AAPL, BUD, GE, NVDA, QCOM.
We’re Stumbling Into Another Stock Market Crash

We’re Stumbling Into Another Stock Market Crash

iStock.com/Onypix Inflation Confuses Analysts and Raises Stock Market Crash Fears U.S. inflation is confusing analysts. Some data suggests that consumer spending is dropping. In other words, consumers are not confident. They’re either delaying or avoiding big-ticket purchases such as cars and large appliances or electronics as retail sales have dropped for three months in a […]
EUR/USD Technical Outlook: Price Sell-Off To Offer Opportunity

EUR/USD Technical Outlook: Price Sell-Off To Offer Opportunity

EURUSD reversed off near-term resistance this week and we’ve been tracking the pullback in price as the pair approaches interim support. Price has continued to trade within the weekly opening-range but we’re looking for a possible breakdown lower before resumption of the broader up-trend. EUR/USD DAILY PRICE CHART Technical Outlook: In this week’s EURUSD Technical Perspective I highlighted that, “Initial […]