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The New Era Of Crisis Volatility

The New Era Of Crisis Volatility

Image Source: Pixabay Tracy Alloway, Co-Host of Odd-Lots, explains how corporations have been able to get away with increasing prices during times of crisis events. Alloway also breaks down the corporate debt environment and her views on a future with increased global volatility.We also chat about Alloway’s path in financial journalism and her favorite memories of […]
Selective Listening Among Dueling Fed Speak

Selective Listening Among Dueling Fed Speak

Image Source: Pexels This morning has been a banner one for those who follow every utterance from key Federal Reserve talking heads. So far today, we’ve had three of them in rapid succession. Looking at the initial reactions by stock and bond traders, we seem to have some selective listening going on. Shortly after 10 am EST, […]
VIX, Yields Spike As Ugly 7Y Auction Buyers’ Strike Sends Tail To One Year High

VIX, Yields Spike As Ugly 7Y Auction Buyers’ Strike Sends Tail To One Year High

While yesterday we at least had a mediocre 5Y auction to wash the bitter taste from the very ugly 2Y sale early in the day, today’s sales of 7Y paper sticks out like a sore thumb. A very ugly sore thumb.Pricing at a high yield of 4.399%, the stop was more than 50bps lower than last month’s […]
Gold Closes In On New Highs

Gold Closes In On New Highs

Image Source: Pixabay In last night’s Closer and today’s Morning Lineup, we discussed areas in commodity markets that have been selling off. One that has avoided those declines has been gold. As shown below, gold’s outperformance isn’t exactly new. Gold relative to a broad basket of commodities massively outperformed early on in the pandemic, but that outperformance reversed up […]
Chart Of The Day: Assurant – Consumer Insurances

Chart Of The Day: Assurant – Consumer Insurances

Image Source: Pixabay   100% technical buy signals 4 new highs and up 15.18% in the last month 40.80+ Weighted Alpha The Chart of the Day belongs to the consumer insurance company Assurant (AIZ). I found the stock by using Barchart’s powerful screening functions to find stocks with the highest technical buy signals, highest Weighted Alpha, superior […]
Cloud Stocks: Nvidia To Continue Dominating

Cloud Stocks: Nvidia To Continue Dominating

Photo Credit: Masaru Kamikura/Flickr.com With AI taking off, Nvidia’s (NVDA) pioneering efforts in the accelerated computing space are paying off. Today, Nvidia’s platform is used by 4.5 million developers and powers 76% of the TOP500 supercomputers. The company recently announced very strong quarterly results. Nvidia’s Financials Nvidia’s third-quarter revenues grew a jaw-dropping 206% to $18.12 billion, […]
The Business Cycle And The Markets Now

The Business Cycle And The Markets Now

Image Source: Pexels My view on interest rates, stock markets, and government debt.Video Length: 00:12:50More By This Author:Stocks And BondsWhy Bonds Fooled Investors In 2022 Watch The Markets, Not The Fed
Huge Collapse In New Home Sales On Top Of Steep Negative Revisions

Huge Collapse In New Home Sales On Top Of Steep Negative Revisions

New home sales revisions yesterday were exceptional. I created a new chart to show the changes.New home sales from Census Department, chart by Mish Last month I reported New Home Sales Jump 12.3 Percent Smash ExpectationsThat didn’t happen. Barring no further revisions (unlikely), sales did jump 8.6 percent. But from August unrevised the jump was actually […]
Grains Report – Tuesday, Nov. 28

Grains Report – Tuesday, Nov. 28

WHEAT General Comments: Wheat markets were lower again yesterday on the poor demand potential for US Wheat and on fund selling due to chart patterns. The weekly export sales report was bad once again last week and reports indicate that Ukraine is using Black Sea ports to load export Wheat. Russia is still exporting and […]
Record Cyber Monday Sales Fueled By ‘BNPL Craze’ As Consumers Spend Beyond Their Means

Record Cyber Monday Sales Fueled By ‘BNPL Craze’ As Consumers Spend Beyond Their Means

Image Source: Unsplash The ‘buy now, pay later’ (BNPL) craze is sweeping across America as debt-ridden consumers tap another credit lifeline that has propelled record sales for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. This trend has become another financial crutch for consumers hooked on spending beyond their means. Data from Adobe Analytics showed that more Americans than ever relied on […]