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Natural Gas Storage Deficit To 5-Year Average Widens Further
The U.S. Energy Department’s weekly inventory release showed a smaller-than-expected increase in natural gas supplies. The headline beat, which further widened the storage deficit ahead of the upcoming winter, helped the fuel to remain above the psychologically important $3 level. About the Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report The Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report – brought […]
Monthly Closes For Gold But Look At Those Moves In Palladium
Gold is gaining a bit today but is still being held below some resistance at $1,194. Silver is getting a nice bounce but one market we have not talked about is Palladium. Palladium is up over 30% in the last two months. (Audio length 00:13:56)
Moving Averages: September Month-End Update – Friday, Sept. 28
The S&P 500 closed September with a monthly gain of 0.43% after a gain of 3.03% in August. All three S&P 500 MAs are signaling “invested” and three of five Ivy Portfolio ETFs — Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI), Vanguard REIT Index (VNQ), and PowerShares DB Commodity Index (DBC) — are signaling “invested”. The […]
Decapitation Strike – Elon Musk In The Crosshairs Of The Bureaucracy
The Most Expensive Tweet of All Time He finally done did it this time – this is to say, he did himself in. It was already widely known that Elon Musk sent out one tweet too many in early August. But it seems now that what he posted on that fateful day may well end […]
Buyer Beware In October
Often Oil prices and stocks move in the same direction. This is logical longer term when considering an expanding economy is coincidentally good for earnings of stocks as well as the rising demand for Oil to feed a growing economy. While there will be periods of divergent trends, the past year or two has witnessed […]
Leveraged ETFs And Portfolio Cash Allocations – Investors Go “All-In”
When I first shared this chart I thought it was kind of interesting to see leveraged long ETF assets surge in the lead up to the market peak in January, and stay resilient throughout the heightened market volatility. Fast forward a few months and assets under management in leveraged long (combines 2x and 3x) US equity ETF […]
Italy Calls Europe’s Bluff — And The Euro Loses Either Way
When Italy elected a bunch of rowdy populists back in March, the rest of the eurozone assumed (or at least hoped) that the weight of responsibility would bring Rome back into line. But so far the Italians appear to be serious about ending austerity and forcing the ECB to finance their spending ambitions. The just-passed […]
Tesla Default Probability Hits A Record 48%
With Tesla stock plunging 13%, suffering its biggest one day drop in years as the market was forced to evaluate a world in which Elon Musk is no longer affiliated with the company should the SEC get its wish (a proposition which according to Barclays could wipe out as much as $130 from the TSLA stock […]
Italy Seeks To Abolish Poverty Via Bigger Deficits, Guaranteed Income
Italy’s 5-Star/League coalition seeks a 2.4% budget deficit including a guaranteed income provision. Brussels bristles. Italy Seeks to Abolish Poverty The BBC reports Italy’s Populists Agree Budget to ‘Abolish Poverty’. The ruling Five Star and League parties said late on Thursday that they had agreed to set the budget deficit at 2.4% of GDP. They will […]
4 Sector ETFs That Beat The Market In Q3
Though escalation in U.S.-China trade tensions, emerging market meltdown and rounds of tech sell-off played spoilsport in the stock market, the Wall Street extended its largest bull run in the third quarter. In fact, the S&P 500 touched 2,900 for the first time in history on Aug 28 and the Dow Jones soared to its […]
