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Weekly Technical Perspective On Euro Vs US Dollar (EUR/USD) – Tuesday, Oct. 2

Weekly Technical Perspective On Euro Vs US Dollar (EUR/USD) – Tuesday, Oct. 2

In this series, we scale-back and take a look at the broader technical picture to gain a bit more perspective on where we are in trend. Euro is trading into a critical support confluence early in the month with major event risk on tap this week. Here are the key targets & invalidation levels that matter on the EUR/USD weekly chart.  EUR/USD […]
Billion Dollar Unicorns: Should Oracle Buy MongoDB?

Billion Dollar Unicorns: Should Oracle Buy MongoDB?

According to a Market Research Media report published earlier this year, the global NoSQL market is estimated to grow 21% annually to $3.4 billion by 2024. Analysts believe that with unstructured data having surpassed structured data globally, NoSQL will be the primary DBMS platform going forward. Billion Dollar Unicorn MongoDB (Nasdaq: MDB) is already delivering results on this high growth […]
Q3 ETF Asset Flow Roundup: What’s Hot & What’s Not

Q3 ETF Asset Flow Roundup: What’s Hot & What’s Not

Despite escalation in U.S.-China trade tensions, emerging market meltdown especially in Turkey and Argentina, and rounds of tech sell-off, global stock indexes ended the third quarter on a positive note. American stocks were the biggest gainers backed by the dual tailwinds of solid corporate earnings and an improving economy. On the other hand, many emerging […]
Silver: Canary In An Inflationary Coal Mine

Silver: Canary In An Inflationary Coal Mine

The demand-side drivers of the gold price are the Western fear trade and the Eastern love trade. The fear trade has languished in recent years, leaving the love trade to do the “heavy lifting” for the price. That has gone reasonably well; China’s gold mining industry has consolidated and embraced environment-friendly mining. India’s jewellery industry […]
Lively Start To The Trading Week For The Euro And The Canadian Dollar

Lively Start To The Trading Week For The Euro And The Canadian Dollar

It’s been a very lively start to the new trading week, month and final quarter. Yesterday we had all the hoopla over the US/Canadian trade deal which sent the CAD soaring, and at the same time, we also had the Italian government threatening to break EU rules over their budget plans which sent the Euro […]
Amazing Emerging

Amazing Emerging

The consistency of the emerging markets in 2018 is enough to bring tears of joy to any chartist’s eyes. This has been a super short since I entered it at the last touchpoint.  
Italian Bonds Resume Plunge, Yields Hit Highest Since 2014

Italian Bonds Resume Plunge, Yields Hit Highest Since 2014

Earlier today, we laid out the three main reasons why, according to Goldman, the Italian bond turmoil was set to get worse: in brief, these were rising government debt (as a result of the sharply higher projected budget deficit of 2.4% through 2021), fading ECB support (QE ending at the end of 2018), and diminished market liquidity (wider bid-ask spreads and declining […]
S&P 500: All Systems Go Heading Into Earnings Season

S&P 500: All Systems Go Heading Into Earnings Season

On Monday, we flipped the calendar into a new week, month, and quarter, and beyond the weather getting cooler (at least for Northern Hemisphere readers!), that means that we’re on the verge of another quarterly earnings season for US stocks. Looking back at the performance of US companies and stocks over the last three months […]
Treasury Yields: A Long-Term Perspective – Tuesday, Oct. 2

Treasury Yields: A Long-Term Perspective – Tuesday, Oct. 2

Let’s have a look at a long-term perspective on Treasury yields as of the August 20th close. The chart below shows the 10-Year Constant Maturity yield since 1962 along with the Federal Funds Rate (FFR) and inflation. The range has been astonishing. The stagflation that set in after the 1973 Oil Embargo was finally ended […]
How Is The Trade War Going, And An Underappreciated Risk

How Is The Trade War Going, And An Underappreciated Risk

It looks like a new, renamed NAFTA has been negotiated. This is no surprise; I said as much last month. All sides had too much to lose and too much to gain for it not to get done. It’s possible that the Democrats will hold it up in congress just to spite Trump, but probably […]