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Liquidity In The Market Has Vanished And Spreads Are Widening

Liquidity In The Market Has Vanished And Spreads Are Widening

Image Source: UnsplashLiquidity in the stock market has vanished over the last few days.Video Length: 00:16:06More By This Author:A Steeper Curve May Cause The Technology Sector To Sink Further Stocks Rally Back In A Roller Coaster Session Markets Scream Of Risk-Off Ahead Of August CPI Report
3 AI Stocks Worth Buying In September 2024

3 AI Stocks Worth Buying In September 2024

Photo by Mohamed Nohassi on Unsplash  It is fair to assume that any data, from visual to textual, has been used to train AI models since the dawn of the Internet. It is now incumbent on AI companies to clean and fine-tune those datasets to reduce noise and deliver useful products.In the worst-case scenario, even if current AI […]
One Way Or Another

One Way Or Another

  Oh what a tangled web we weave…   When first we practice to deceive  —Sir Walter Scott    Last week brought news that the stock market had gone up… a little. A photo showed a happy face on Wall Street, and a smile on the face of the newscaster. Rising stock prices are always accompanied […]
Weekly Commentary: Validating The Bubble Thesis: Q2 2024 Z.1

Weekly Commentary: Validating The Bubble Thesis: Q2 2024 Z.1

Image Source: DepositPhotos  Up 10.0%, down 12.2%, down 1.3%, up 1.1%, up 9.8%, up 2.2%, down 9.7%, down 3.1% and down 8.8%. The past nine weeks of SOX performance. Nvidia: Up 15.8%, down 13.9%, down 7.7%, up 3.8%, up 19.8%, down 2.3%, down 5.1%, down 4.1%, and down 8.8%. Nasdaq100: Up 5.9%, down 5.9%, down […]
Chinese Automakers Are Far Ahead Of Ford And GM On Cost And Quality

Chinese Automakers Are Far Ahead Of Ford And GM On Cost And Quality

Image Source: PexelsFord’s (F) CEO, Jim Farley, is very scared of Chinese automakers. He should be. The US trails badly.An ‘Existential Threat’?!Jim Farley labels China’s electric carmakers ‘existential threat’.That’s a term we hear about climate change and nuclear war. But cars?The Wall Street Journal reports What Scared Ford’s CEO in China Jim Farley had just returned from […]
Beyond Politics: The Real Reason Behind Economic Data Revisions

Beyond Politics: The Real Reason Behind Economic Data Revisions

Image Source: DepositPhotos Data revisions or political data manipulation? When revised data support the in-group’s political policies, members of the out-group sometime allege that the numbers were cooked for partisan advantage. But the tension between speed and accuracy better explains data revisions than nefarious activity.The monthly employment report provides a good example. Market analysts and […]
Asia Week Ahead: Central Bank Developments And An Incoming Data Flood

Asia Week Ahead: Central Bank Developments And An Incoming Data Flood

Image Source: Unsplash China: Monthly data dump before mid-autumn  Ahead of the mid-autumn festival next week, China publishes its August data dump on Saturday morning. We are generally looking for another month of sluggish growth data this month, with the three big economic activity indicators of industrial production (5.1% prior, 4.8% forecast), fixed asset investment (3.6% […]
Election Impact On The Economy

Election Impact On The Economy

Image Source: DepositPhotosAlhambra CEO Joe Calhoun provides his take on the impact of the presidential debate and presidential elections on the stock market and economy.   Video Length: 00:13::51More By This Author:Weekly Recap And DARP Update – Saturday, Sept. 14Weekly Recap And DARP Update – Saturday, Sept. 7Weekly Recap And DARP Update – Friday, Aug. […]
When Should The New York Department Of Financial Services Have Rehabilitated American Transit Insurance?

When Should The New York Department Of Financial Services Have Rehabilitated American Transit Insurance?

 Hey! Maybe we can grow our way out of the problem!At one point in time, I was a Fellow in the Society of Actuaries, a Life Actuary specializing in investment issues. Eventually, I was hired by a hedge fund to analyze all types of insurance stocks. I knew some things about reserving outside of life […]
XPDUSD Trading Strategy: Palladium Analysis & Forecast

XPDUSD Trading Strategy: Palladium Analysis & Forecast

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