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How Volatility Impacts Retirement Plans
Ah volatility, we thought you were gone. But how quickly you came back: Source: Yahoo Finance Nowhere To Hide There really was nowhere to hide during the latest downturn. Very similar to 2008/2009, most assets were correlated and fell together. But also just like in the 2008/2009 downturn, some equities were less volatile than […]
Inhospitable
One of my short positions is Hospitality Properties Trust, which has a very clean topping pattern and looks like it is on its way to a trendline failure:
What About IDR?
On October 31, 1997, the IMF announced a rescue for Indonesia. Though it was Thailand who caught the Asian flu first, it was this latter country where a monetary line in the sand was drawn. Nobody wanted to find out what a complete wipeout of the Indonesia rupiah might mean for financial conditions across Asia. […]
How To Spot The Market’s Next Move
Video length: 00:09:57 The trade war is on… then off as stocks react to the trade news. In this important video newsletter update we look at the range in all the indices that traders need to keep a close eye on. Whether you’re trading stocks, options, or futures these key levels are going to determine […]
BlackBerry Sues Facebook, Alleging Messaging Patent Violations
Image source: BlackBerry (screen shot from video via YouTube) BlackBerry has filed a lawsuit against Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp over allegations of patent violation. The Canadian firm states that it has seeking a resolution to the patent dispute for “several years,” but apparently, those efforts have all come to nothing. Citing online court records, Reuters initially […]
Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – Storm Warnings
Stocks turned in the typical ranging day, finishing up a little to the positive side. The notion of a trade war has them spooked, and they are fluctuating with every nuance to the tariff issue coming out of Washington DC. Leo Gerard, the United Steelworkers President, had an interview with the spokesmodels of financial […]
Uber Self-Driving Trucks Delivering Goods In Arizona
The hub-to-hub self-driving truck model is no longer a theory. For now, there’s a backup driver. Two years from now? The future of long-haul autonomous trucking has arrived: Uber’s self-driving trucks are now delivering freight in Arizona. Uber’s big push to dominate the trucking industry took a leap forward today with the announcement that the ride-hailing […]
CADJPY – A Turn For The Making?
No pair has been more beaten up by tariff talk than CADJPY. The cross got it from both sides as it suffered declines from risk aversion flows and from the idiosyncratic risk facing Canada which on the sharp end of the stick in both Nafta negotiations and general global tariff threats. Today, however, was […]
Trump And Tariffs – Not A New Risk
Last week, the stock market dove in part because President Trump appeared to be plunging ahead with new tariffs; on Monday, the market recouped that loss (and then some) as the conventional wisdom over the weekend was that Congress would never let that happen and so it is unlikely that tariffs will be implemented. I’m always fascinated […]
WTI Down, RBOB Up After Huge Gasoline Draw, Crude Build
WTI/RBOB prices chopped around today, but drifted lower into the API data which shocked both ways. A larger than expected crude build sparked WTI selling and the biggest gasoline draw since October sparked RBOB gains. API Crude +5.66mm (+3mm exp) Cushing -790k exp Gasoline -4.536mm – biggest draw since Oct 2017 Distillates +1.487mm Prices limped lower into […]
