Category Archive: Finance
The Silver Economy
The global pension crisis is possibly the biggest issue facing policymakers and CEO’s alike today. Earlier this year research showed that US cities and states face a $3.9 trillion gap in their pension funding obligations — an entirely unsustainable funding shortfall. In Chicago, for example, it’s estimated that the pension deficit is equal to 19 years of the city’s tax revenues. […]
USD/JPY And AUD/USD Forecast – Friday, Sept. 8
The US dollar fell precipitously against the Japanese yen and of course, several other currencies around the world, and as we broke down below the 108.50 level, that was a very bearish sign. At the end of the day, it looks as if the area is trying to hold, but the fact that we broke […]
Equifax Hit With $70 Billion Lawsuit After Leaking 143 Million Social Security Numbers
One day after Equifax announced (more than one month after it itself had learned) that its systems had been hacked, resulting in up to 143 million social security numbers, names, addresses, driver’s license data, birth dates, some credit card numbers and pretty much all other critical personal data being leaked and currently for sale somewhere on the dark […]
Let The Ball Come To You
I sucked at baseball when I was younger. It wasn’t because I was physically incapable of playing baseball. It was mainly because I was undisciplined and tried to do too much. For instance, I was a decent right handed hitter, but I spent half my time practicing left handed. Baseball is hard enough as it […]
Slow Wage Growth Could Be Thanks To ‘Sticky Wages’
The economic outlook in the United States right now is remarkably positive according to many indicators; unemployment is at its lowest since the dot-com bubble, the stock market is at record highs, and inflation is relatively mild. Wages, however, seem to be bucking the trend. Growth in nominal wage rates has remained modest despite a tight labor market, puzzling […]
Policy Divergence Revisited
Three years ago, the Fed had begun tightening and all other central banks were still on easy street. Now, we are at an inflection point where the Fed is now the outlier. Other central banks are likely to tighten more than the Fed. That’s negative for the US dollar and positive for longer duration US […]
70 Firms Going Ex-Dividend: Coca-Cola, Merck And T. Rowe Price
There are several well known large cap stocks going ex-dividend next week including the following seven Top 100 Dividend Stocks: Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, T. Rowe Price, BCE Inc., Coca-Cola, Eastman Chemical, Merck and Hess Corp. Ex-dividend dates are important to dividend investors because one must own a stock on its ex-dividend date in order to be eligible […]
USD/CAD Retains Bearish Sequence Despite Mixed Canada Employment Report
Talking Points: – GBP/USD Nullifies Threat of Head-and-Shoulders Reversal Ahead of BoE Meeting. – USD/CAD Preserves Bearish Sequence Despite Lackluster Canada Employment Report. Ticker Last High Low Daily Change (pip) Daily Range (pip) GBP/USD 1.3183 1.3224 1.3094 81 130 GBP/USD is on the cusp of testing the 2017-high (1.3268), with the pair at risk for a larger advance […]
GBP/USD Elliott Wave View: More Upside
GBPUSD Short Term Elliott Wave view suggests that the rally from the 8/24 low is unfolding as an impulse Elliott Wave structure, up from the 8/24 low (1.2773), Minor wave 1 ended at 1.2979 and Minor wave 2 ended at 1.2851. Minor wave 3 is in progress and the subdivision is unfolding as an impulse Elliott Wave structure. […]
Equities Need To Get On With It
This entire week has been spent doing one thing: just hanging out beneath the trendline. No surge (thank God). No break. Just lingering. I have no quarrel with the ES being down a few points here and there, but for Pete’s sake, can we get a -40 one of these days? Is it no longer […]
