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Weekly Gasoline Price Update: WTIC Down Sixth Consecutive Week

Weekly Gasoline Price Update: WTIC Down Sixth Consecutive Week

It’s time again for our weekly gasoline update based on data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). The price of Regular and Premium are down seven and six cents each, respectively, from last week. According to GasBuddy.com, Hawaii has the highest average price for Regular at $3.83 and Oklahoma has the cheapest at $2.29. The WTIC […]
Natural Gas Goes Limit Up

Natural Gas Goes Limit Up

For the second time in 2018 the prompt month natural gas contract went 30 cents limit up as bullish weather risks combined with continued fear about low storage levels to shoot the winter natural gas complex higher.  It was the March contract that made the largest move higher today, as it was the original contract […]
Energy Fund Taken To The Chipper

Energy Fund Taken To The Chipper

Crude oil. Ugly move lower over the past two weeks. The market pundits will try to explain the price action. They will offer evidence of President Trump’s tweet as the catalyst for the sell-off. Or they will point to the decline resulting from market participants’ belief the global economy is about to roll over. And […]
Agriculture Market Report – Tuesday, Nov. 13

Agriculture Market Report – Tuesday, Nov. 13

In the end-of-the-day market video, Ira reviews the day’s trading in the agriculture markets. Running length 00:09:13
Focus On The Financials

Focus On The Financials

What’s in store for Financials and the XLF for this week? In tonight’s video, Corey discusses the key support level and targets for short-term trades in both the XLF with the SP 500 and selected leading financial companies including Goldman Sachs (GS), JP Morgan (JPM), Morgan Stanley (MS), Microsoft (MSFT) and others. (Video length 00:08:36)
Why Bonds Are Going Nowhere

Why Bonds Are Going Nowhere

As we watch Jay Powell’s case dissipate on NYMEX WTI right before our very eyes, we can count on his ideology to try to make it for him in the absence of actual data. Economists will not budge no matter how much stacks against them; nor how many times we have to repeat this very […]
In Search Of Kind Of Close

In Search Of Kind Of Close

The benefits of a simple portfolio. Barry Ritholtz had a great post on Friday titled Why You Should Stick With Buy And Hold. If you buy and hold on no matter what, save for rebalancing and changing your asset allocation based on life events, and you have an adequate savings rate then you have a very […]
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                        Why The Bank Of Canada Should Back Off From Further Rate Hikes

E Why The Bank Of Canada Should Back Off From Further Rate Hikes

After raising the bank rate three times this year alone, Governor Poloz continues to signal that the Bank is nowhere near completing its current cycle of rate increases. Recent statements by the Governor indicate that Canadians should expect the bank rate to hit 3 percent from its current level of 1.75 percent[1].  According to legend, […]
Do Not Overtrade This Market Carelessly

Do Not Overtrade This Market Carelessly

Need I say more? Today was a prime example. Market opens higher on a level of optimism about talks with China, although no real substance to that optimism exists. It continues to trade higher right into resistance. Semiconductors SMH had to clear and hold over 94.00, (high was 94.48. Transportation IYT had to clear and […]
5 Stocks Paying A Juicy Yield Over 5%

5 Stocks Paying A Juicy Yield Over 5%

Each year, they would receive juicy dividends, see their payments increasing and their portfolio growing in value. Wow! This really looks like buying a seafront house in Hawaii for $200K, doesn’t it? Unfortunately, however, many 5% yielders end-up cutting their dividend. A 5% yield is only good if it keeps getting paid Over the past […]