An Anecdote On The German Housing Bubble
I don’t know if there is a German housing bubble or even whether there will be one. I do know that we hear a lot about it in the press – the result of zero, even negative, interest rates. So let me give you a little anecdote from my trip to Germany last week. I […]
Gold’s Shift
I was initially going to try to write something about equities (specifically, the ES), but Good Lord, what on earth is there to say except… endless abortions. What I mean by that is that every time it seems we’re set up to fall (see green tint), voila, we abort the breakdown and Yellen saves the […]
Stocks Get Closer To June Record High, Will Uptrend Continue?
Our intraday outlook is bearish, and our short-term outlook is bearish. Our medium-term outlook remains neutral, following S&P 500 index breakout above last year’s all-time high: Intraday outlook (next 24 hours): bearish Short-term outlook (next 1-2 weeks): bearish Medium-term outlook (next 1-3 months): neutral Long-term outlook (next year): neutral The main U.S. stock market indexes […]
June Producer Price Index: Final Demand Inches Up
Today’s release of the June Producer Price Index (PPI) for Final Demand came in at 0.1% month-over-month seasonally adjusted, up from last month’s 0.0%. It is at 2.0% year-over-year, down from 2.4% last month, on a non-seasonally adjusted basis. Core Final Demand (less food and energy) came in at 0.31% MoM, down from 0.3% the […]
OpGen Announces Pricing Of $10.0 Million Public Offering
GAITHERSBURG, Md., July 13, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — OpGen, Inc. (Nasdaq:OPGN) announces the pricing of a public offering of an aggregate of 25,000,000 units. Each unit is comprised of one share of common stock (or common stock equivalent) and one common warrant to purchase one share of common stock. The units are being offered at […]
Yellen’s Cautious Tone Lifts Aussie And Kiwi Dollars
The Aussie and Kiwi Dollars benefited from the greenback’s slide after yesterday’s testimony by the head of the Federal Reserve suggested some caution ahead in terms of interest rates. Though Janet Yellen was cautiously optimistic that inflation would be picking up in the near term, the release this Friday of personal inflation date (CPI) will go a […]
E VBI Vaccines: Hidden Vaccine Gem
TM editors’ note: This article discusses a penny stock and/or microcap. Such stocks are easily manipulated; do your own careful due diligence. One of the more interesting and under followed biotechs in the market just announced the official plans to start a major Phase III clinical trial for a drug that has an increasingly unmet […]
NIFTY Elliott Wave View: Resuming Higher
Short-term NIFTY Elliott Wave view suggests that the rally to 9709.3 ended Intermediate wave (1), and the pullback to 9449.06 low ended Intermediate wave (2). Intermediate wave (3) is unfolding as an Elliott wave double three structure where Minor wave W of (3) is currently in progress towards 9894.8 – 9954.5. Up from 6/30 low at 9449.06, Minor wave […]
AUD/JPY, CAD/JPY Press Breakouts As Risk Appetite Surges
Video length: 00:08:11 Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s two day testimony in front of Congress got off to a better start than most market participants could have hoped for yesterday. The Fed chair’s comments on inflation being a symmetric target – that rates could stop rising if inflation stumbles – is seen as perhaps a […]
Weekly Unemployment Claims: Down 3K From Last Week
Here is the opening statement from the Department of Labor: In the week ending July 8, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 247,000, a decrease of 3,000 from the previous week’s revised level. The previous week’s level was revised up by 2,000 from 248,000 to 250,000. The 4-week moving average was 245,750, […]
