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Volatility Increasing And An Opportunity Still In Cannabis
Allison Ostrander, Director of Risk Tolerance and Options Trader at Simpler Trading joins me to share her thoughts on the recent weakness in US equity markets. Along with this weakness, we saw the VIX move up and is currently holding a slightly higher level. Another market we have been talking more about is the cannabis […]
The Ratio Of Part-Time Employed: September 2018
Let’s take a close look at the latest employment report numbers on Full and Part-Time Employment. Buried near the bottom of Table A-9 of the government’s Employment Situation Summary are the numbers for Full- and Part-Time Workers, with 35-or-more hours as the arbitrary divide between the two categories. The source is the monthly Current Population Survey (CPS) […]
South Sea Forecast: Stockjobbing Becomes Technology
In 1720, the South Sea Bubble arose from what seemed to be good intentions. The South Sea Company was given an exclusive monopoly on the Spanish Americas in exchange for assuming a large part of England’s debt. The debt holders received preferred shares in the South Sea Company that paid 6% interest. The business operators […]
7 Leveraged/Inverse ETFs Off To A Strong Start In October
Thanks to heightened volatility and uncertainty, the leveraged and inverse leveraged space has grabbed investors’ attention at the start of October. This is because investors grabbed products in this space to magnify returns on quick market turns. While the dual tailwinds of strong corporate earnings and a booming economy will likely keep the positive momentum […]
What To Expect For Q3 Retail Earnings
A discussion on the Q3 earnings season that is set to kick off with the banks this Friday, with rising rates, trade wars and wage pressures all expected to be front and center on earnings calls. Retailers in focus for this season are Amazon, Wal-Mart and Target, all of which have promising reports ahead. Audio Length: 00:48:25
Italian Stocks On Precipice Of Bear Market As Tria Fails To Put Out Fire
Italian Finance Minister Giovanni Tria is an unenviable position. He tried to convince Deputy PMs Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio to respect E.U. budget concerns when setting fiscal targets, but they didn’t listen. So here we are, two weeks after Italy’s dynamic deputy duo decided on a 2.4% deficit target for 2019, and Italian assets are a […]
Some Weird Action In GDX
David Erfle, Founder and Editor of The Junior Miner Junky shares some of his thoughts on the weird action in GDX over the past couple of days. With gold down, yesterday GDX managed to get a buy throughout the day but today is a different story. We also look at a couple of stocks that […]
AUD/USD: The FX Market’s Cleanest Trend Keeps Trending
For bears, AUD/USD is the gift that keeps giving. “The Cleanest Trend in the FX Market,” as we’ve been calling the pair in our trade recommendations for months now, hit a 20-month low earlier this week. Imagine: a trader who went short the pair at its peak above 0.8100 in late January and then went […]
Secular Trends In Employment: Goods Producing Versus Services Providing – Tuesday, Oct. 9
The Department of Labor has monthly data on employment by industry categories reaching back to 1939. At the highest level, all jobs are categorized in either Service-Providing Industries or Goods Producing Industries. The adjacent chart illustrates the ratio of the two since 1939. The latest monthly employment report showed a gain of 134K nonfarm payrolls, […]
The Phillips Curve Myth
It is a well-known belief that by means of monetary policy, the central bank can influence the rate of real economic expansion. It is also held that this influence, however, carries a price, which manifests itself in terms of inflation. For instance, if the goal is to reach a faster economic growth rate and a […]
