Sensex, Nifty Trade Lower; Energy & Metal Stocks In Red
Indian share markets continued to trade on a weak note during the noon session. Losses were largely seen in PSU stocks, metal stocks and energy stocks. The BSE Sensex is trading lower by 150 points and the NSE Nifty is trading down by 62 points. Meanwhile, the BSE Mid Cap index is trading up by 0.1% & the BSE Small Cap index is down by 0.1%. The rupee […]
E Market Briefing For Wednesday, March 14
March Madness might reasonably describe the bullish rationales that predominate market behavior currently; aside any day (of course) we get an ‘actual’ S&P decline like Tuesday’s projected likely faltering morning rally; and then failing midday recovery effort. Even now they’ll say just another dip; and ignore possibilities the market is running out of fuel, as […]
The X’s And Y’s Of Jerome Powell And The Long End, As Calculated By Eurodollar Futures
For the end-of-bond-bull-market-crowd, 3% is a line in the sand. There is no inherent significance in that number, except that it’s a round one. The benchmark 10s as of now trade with regard to that level as if it’s a ceiling. That’s what makes it so momentous. In 2013, the yield finally broke 3% the […]
Exxon And Biofuels: The Oil Giant Sees Promise In Algae
Production of advanced biofuels made from algae could grow rapidly in the late 2020s, according to Synthetic Genomics, the biotech company that has formed a partnership with ExxonMobil (XOM) to develop the fuel. The two companies said last week that by 2025 they were aiming to set up one or more demonstration plants to produce […]
Q Ratio And Market Valuation: Z.1 Update
The Q Ratio is a popular method of estimating the fair value of the stock market developed by Nobel Laureate James Tobin. It’s a fairly simple concept, but laborious to calculate. The Q Ratio is the total price of the market divided by the replacement cost of all its companies. Fortunately, the government does the […]
Retirement Risk: Don’t Trade Downside Protection For More Upside
We have a key belief about saving for retirement: The potential for additional upside is not worth an outsized risk of devastating downside. Case in point: The recent Reuters Special Report on the riskiness of Fidelity Investments’ target date series Freedom Funds highlights important issues on the risk faced by participants in target date funds—risks that may […]
Indian Indices Turn Volatile, Inflation Eases, And Top Stocks In Action Wednesday
On Tuesday, share markets in India opened on a positive note but ended the day in red. The BSE Sensex closed lower by 61 points to end the day at 33,857. While the broader NSE Nifty ended the day higher by 5 points to end at 10,426 levels. Among BSE sectoral indices, IT stocks fell […]
Trade Wars – There’s A Lot More At Play Than Tariffs
John Rubino joins me today to continue our discussions on tariffs and the bigger picture of trade wars. The recent tariffs with Canada and Mexico are just the start of what could be a busy year for analysts both from the markets side and political side. Free trade can be positive for many countries and […]
FV Top 5 Charts Of The Week
In this video we run through the weekly email newsletter “The Top 5 Charts of the Week”. In this week’s edition we look at US economic confidence reaching almost record highs, the Energy Sector at a cyclical/structural low point in the S&P500, the astonishing performance of a select group of sectors, factors, and styles in […]
How Low Can Natural Gas Storage Levels Get?
Natural gas prices were relatively stable today, eventually settling up modestly on a day where they traded positive through most of the trading session. The theme of small trading ranges continued, with just a 3.5-cent trading range again today. This pulled the daily trading range far below what we tend to see this time of […]
