The stock market continued to grind its way higher last week, even as it traded off following Friday’s substantially weaker than expected September Employment Report, which led the market to finish the week with a stubbed toe. Candidly, following the missed relative to expectations results from restaurant company Darden (DRI), we were bracing for a […]

Three weeks after comparing fund managers who lose money for their clients by desperately clinging to hypotheses about how the world should work (as opposed to how it actually does work) to the Cassini spacecraft (which careened into Saturn’s atmosphere at about 78,000 mph last month), Bloomberg’s Cameron Crise is back with some more “deep” macro thoughts for you. See if you’re […]

Fundamental Forecast for Japanese Yen: Bearish USD/JPY appears to be on its way to test the July-high (114.50) as it clears the monthly opening range following the U.S. Non-Farm Payrolls (NFP) report, but the near-term outlook remains clouded with mixed signals as the rebound from the 2017-low (107.32) appears to be losing momentum. Even though U.S. […]

The Value Line Geometric Index ($XVG) is an equal weighting of all the stocks on the NYSE. It has been consolidating sideways for almost 20 years. In the last several months it has broken out to the upside. This suggests a powerful and sustained move higher in the stock markets is likely to take place, […]

Listen: we live an uncertain world. And part of that uncertainty is directly attributable to the increasingly cartoonish cast of the characters upon whose dispositions our fate depends. We gave you a brief overview of what we’ve called “The Austin Powers World” earlier on Sunday. In short, the geopolitical scene is a fusion of a James […]