Weather Brings Natural Gas Back To Life
April natural gas prices were finally able to get moving today, registering their largest percentage daily move since February 20th as prices moved 1.7% higher on colder weekend forecast revisions. This was a textbook weather-driven move, with the front of the natural gas strip leading prices higher. Seen another way, increased weather-driven demand clearly moved […]
Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – The Primacy Of Conscience
Stocks were led by a narrow group of big cap tech related stocks, with the NDX 100 driving all the gains. Tomorrow we will have the CPI data, which *could* move the market. Some of the yield related futures are pricing in a four rate hike year. A strong CPI number may encourage that. Gold […]
Don’t Dream It’s Over
There is freedom within, there is freedom without Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup There’s a battle ahead, many battles are lost But you’ll never see the end of the road While you’re traveling with me……….
3 ETFs To Benefit As Faster Rate Hike Worries Cool Down
The United States economy added more jobs than expected in February. However, wage growth slowed in the period, which led analysts to bet on gradual rate hikes by the Fed. As a result, multiple analysts argue that current concerns regarding the potential impact of high wage growth are being blown out of proportion and the […]
February 2018 Consumer Expectations: Financial Situations Continued To Improve In February
from the New York Fed The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Center for Microeconomic Data released the February 2018 Survey of Consumer Expectations, which shows a slight increase in short- and medium- term inflation expectations. Consumers’ expectations about their personal financial situations continued to improve. Expectations about changes in taxes declined to a new series’ […]
Treasury Yields Tumble – Erase Post-Payrolls Spike
After Friday’s excited celebration of slowing wage growth spiked 30Y Treasury yields, it appears a weekend of reality-checks has prompted some to see economic growth prospects sliding… And the yield curve is testing back to its flasttest since the start of Feb…
E American Midstream Partners: Strong Segment Performance To Continue In 2018
American Midstream Partners (AMID) is a strong growth-focused master limited partnership. It is specifically involved in gathering, treating, processing, fractionating, and transporting natural gas, oil, and condensate to link producers and suppliers to diverse natural gas, NGL, and oil markets. Like similar MLPs, this particular partnership operates more than 3,000 miles of pipelines that gather and […]
Don’t Fall For Corporate America’s Dirty Trick
eBay … $6 billion. Alphabet … $8.6 billion. Pepsi … $15 billion. Wells Fargo … $22.6 billion. Cisco … $25 billion. Apple … $60 billion. Wage increases? Bonuses? Capital expenditure? Job creation? Nope. Planned stock buybacks for 2018, fueled by the recent corporate tax cut. Trump Administration and Congressional Republicans So far in 2018, U.S. […]
Market Talk – Monday, March 12
Having seen a record set for the Nasdaq and strong recovery in other core US markets, Asia opened the week on a positive note. The Hang Seng set the pace with an impressive +1.95% return with good performances from across the plain. We saw Energy, construction, banks and autos all helping to inspire confidence in […]
