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Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – A Bull Market In Bulloney
Gold and silver managed to rally up a bit today on a slightly weaker dollar. There was no breakout. I know quite a few people are watching the 100 DMA for gold. I think the chart is pretty much in concurrence with a widely watched metric and manages to convey more information overall. Stocks tried […]
A Calmer Than Normal October
October has historically been the most volatile month of the year for equity markets, so the fact that volatility has picked up so far this month is to be expected. What may come as a surprise to many, though, is that so far at least, this October has been less volatile than average. The chart […]
The Risks Of Expectations
What do consumers know that Economists don’t? It’s a loaded question, of course, particularly in this day and age where Economists spend years perfecting the study of mathematics. In many ways, formal training is an impediment to the analysis of the economy. There’s nothing wrong with learning about regressions, but it can and often does appear […]
August 2018 Headline Business Sales Improve
Headlines show final business sales data (retail plus wholesale plus manufacturing) an improvement. Inventory levels are modestly elevated relative to times of economic expansion. Analyst Opinion of Business Sales and Inventories Inventories remain elevated this month – but less so. Our primary monitoring tool – the 3 month rolling averages for sales – declined but […]
Bullish List Of Trade Setups For A Possible Short Squeeze
You can still see where the bears really haven’t bee squeezed yet, despite Friday’s rally, and today’s attempt at one, though right now it is still trading flat on the day. Big leaders are struggling, and if this market is going to sustain a bounce and do it in a convincing fashion, it will need […]
September Retail Sales Fizzle: 0.1% Gain Vs. 0.6% Expected
Economists missed the mark badly on retail sales. And August retail sales were revised from 0.1% to flat. The Census Bureau’s Advance Retail Sales Report for September shows unexpected weakness. Advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for September 2018, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were […]
3 High-Yield Stocks For Under $50
Investors sometimes focus too closely on the price performance of a stock, watching the rise and fall of share prices when putting together a portfolio. Share price is important, but it’s not the only measure of a stock’s success. Dividend yield, or the percent of share price paid out in cash to investors every quarter, […]
US Spending On Interest Hits All Time High As Budget Deficit In Trump’s First Year Soars To $779 Billion
One month ago we already knew that the U.S. budget deficit for the 2018 fiscal year – Trump’s first full year in office – would be jarring after the August deficit soared to $211 billion, nearly double the deficit gap from one year ago (largely due to calendar quirks) which on a cumulative basis for the first 11 […]
Is The Canary In The Gold Mine Coming To Life Again?
A Chirp from the Deep Level Mines Back in late 2015 and early 2016, we wrote about a leading indicator for gold stocks, namely the sub-sector of marginal – and hence highly leveraged to the gold price – South African gold stocks. Our example du jour at the time was Harmony Gold (HMY) (see “Marginal Producer Takes […]
Barclays Remains Bullish On GE, Says Earnings Date Push-Back ‘Not A Negative’
In a research note this morning, Barclays analyst Julian Mitchell told investors he does not see the push-back of General Electric’s (GE) earnings date to October 30 from October 25 as a negative, as he believes it increases the likelihood of the company’s new CEO will be able to provide more thorough “forward looks,” rather […]
