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5 Top-Ranked Growth ETFs & Stocks To Tap Post Mid-Term Rally
The mid-term election outcome has sparked a rally in the stock market. Democrats won the House of Representatives as expected while the Republicans maintained control of the Senate. This has resulted in a split Congress with a Republican president. In fact, both the Dow Jones and the S&P 500 logged in the biggest post-midterms gain […]
ECRI Weekly Leading Index Update: WLIg At -2.6
This morning’s release of the publicly available data from ECRI puts its Weekly Leading Index (WLI) at 145.0, down from the previous week’s 146.1. Year-over-year the four-week moving average of the indicator is now at 0.19%, down from last week. The WLI Growth indicator is now at -2.64, also down from the previous week. “Eurozone: […]
Smaller-Than-Expected US Corn & Soybeans Crops Rebound Values
Market Analysis The USDA stunned the market when they (1) used recently revised Chinese corn crop and stocks numbers (out 11/7) in their world data and (2) dramatically slashed US bean exports by 160 million bu. just 3 weeks ahead of the first US/China trade talks in 6 months at the G-20 meetings on Nov […]
Do Markets Prefer A Divided U.S. Congress?
(Video length 00:07:04) On the latest edition of Market Week in Review, Chief Investment Strategist Erik Ristuben and Consulting Director Sophie Antal Gilbert discussed the impact of U.S. midterm elections on markets, key takeaways from the U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed)’s recent policy meeting and October manufacturing activity levels from around the globe. Gridlock looms […]
Gold Trends And Debt Bombs
Veteran trends forecaster Gerald Celente of Trends Research Institute speaks with SBTV about how the gold price performed from the 80’s to today – the peak in 1980, why the gold price was flat in the 90’s and what fueled gold in the 2000s. Gerald also gives a price forecast based on the current geopolitical […]
E The Oil Price Collapse Will Hit Canada
Revised data from Statistics Canada confirmed that Canada’s economy suffered even worse than previously reported from the massive decline in oil prices that began in 2014. The agency lowered the national growth figure to 1.1 percent in 2016, compared with 1.4 percent previously, and to 0.7 percent in 2015, from 1 percent. The collapse of […]
S&P 500 Snapshot: Up 2.1% From Last Friday
The S&P 500 climbed through the middle of the week, only to come down a bit on Friday. The index closed up 2.13% from last Friday, but down 0.92% from yesterday (Thursday). It is up 1% YTD. The U.S. Treasury puts the closing yield on the 10-year note at 3.19%. Here is a daily […]
Australian Dollar Can Hold Up As Long As Risk Appetite Does Too
Fundamental Australian Dollar Forecast: Neutral The Australian Dollar markets seems back to the thesis that the next interest rate move, when it comes, will be a rise Of course it probably won’t come soon, and futures markets reflect this But the currency has at margin a little more support here than it did The Australian Dollar has […]
