Category Archive: Finance
Bond Yields Tumble On Trump Tweet
Anxiety seems to be the word of the day in bond markets. While reports of North Korea moving its ICBMs managed to send 10Y Treasury yields 1bps lower, a Trump Tweet on building strategic forces in Japan and South Korea has sparked a solid bid in bonds, pushing 10Y back a 2.10% handle… Traders – or algos – are […]
D.C. Dysfunction And Central Bank Chaos
On September 5th, the members of both houses of Congress of the United States will clean the beach sand from between their toes and return to work. Our public servants who occupy The House of Representatives have been working on their respective tans since July 29th. The Senate has had a little less time in […]
3 Canadian Cannabis Updates Investors Must Know Before Trading
TM editors’ note: This article discusses a penny stock and/or microcap. Such stocks are easily manipulated; do your own careful due diligence. The cannabis industry is the most rapidly developing and evolving industry’s in the world and staying on top of this market is not as easy as it sounds. As the summer season comes […]
July 2017 CoreLogic Home Prices Year-Over-Year Growth Rate Remains 6.7%
CoreLogic’s Home Price Index (HPI) shows that home prices in the USA are up 6.7 % year-over-year (reported up 0.9 % month-over-month). CoreLogic HPI is used in the Federal Reserves’ Flow of Funds to calculate the values of residential real estate. Analyst Opinion of CoreLogic’s HPI CoreLogic year-over-year rate of growth has been steady for […]
Crude Oil: Extends Its Upside Pressure On Recovery
Crude Oil: The commodity has extended its bull pressure as it looks to build up on it further. On the downside, support resides at the 47.50 level where a break will expose the 47.00 level. A cut through here will set the stage for a run at the 46.50 level. Further down, support resides at […]
ECB & BOE In Focus As Central Banks Head Back After Summer Break
Back To School & Brexit As financial markets start to grind back into action after the quieter summer period, one of the main stories dominating news wires is that of UK politicians voting on the EU Repeal Bill. UK PM Theresa May cautioned last week that the UK could be facing a Brexit “cliff edge” […]
4 Stocks Flaunting Impressive Price-To-Book Value
To arrive at a decision to buy or sell a stock at an attractive value, investors have a number of valuation metrics at their disposal. Though price-to-earnings and price-to-sales are preferred by value investors while choosing value stocks, the price-to-book ratio (P/B ratio) is also a convenient valuation metric for identifying low-priced stocks, which have […]
Day Trading Stock Picks For This Week – Tuesday, September 5
Day trading stock picks likely to move big (up or down) during the week of September 5: HTZ, CBI, THC, ENDP, OAS, AKS, CLF, SWN, NBR, plus several others. Hertz Global Holdings (HTZ) Average day range (30) is 8.47% and average volume (30) is 11 million. CBI Bridge and Iron (CBI) Average day range (30) […]
SPX 2520 Or 2360?
SPX has remained in a steady uptrend since the post election lows just above 2000 points. Soon after price broke above the Daily Kumo (cloud) and has never broken since….470 points higher…. There are bears hoping (pathetic) for a military escalation between South and North Korea… these people need a psychiatrist… and there are bulls that buy […]
Gold – Testing Critical Breakout Level, Again
Below looks at the Gold/US Dollar ratio over the past 8-years. The ratio is testing a level that has been critical to Gold bulls for the past few years and we suspect it will be critical for it again at this level! The ratio declined sharply from 2011 thru 2013, where it hit a […]
