The Week Ahead: Forecast For Upcoming Economic Reports
This week markets will focus on the revised GDP report, which the consensus shows falling a bit from last month’s flash estimate of 3.5 percent. Potentially upsetting markets, the consensus expects durable goods orders fell 0.5 percent in October; however, that would be mostly adjustments in the volatile transportation sector—dominated by the lumpiness in aircraft […]
China SGE Gold Withdrawals For Week 52 Tonnes
The Shanghai Gold Exchange withdrawals were 52.26 tonnes for the week ending 14 November. To put this into perspective, there are a total of 27 tonnes of gold bullion in the registered ‘deliverable’ at these prices category in all the Comex warehouses now. That’s only a few days supply work in Shanghai. The point of this, […]
Stocks: What Do The Charts Say Now?
Things have happened fast over the past four weeks. Video takes a step back and looks at the new evidence that has surfaced in the stock market since the October 15 low. Video Length: 00:16:35
Maybe US Isn’t Turning Japanese…
First, a bit of the money theory. It usually called one of theories, but to me, it’s the only one that’s working. In short, all money is debt. And it’s not the debt that banks take from Fed or Central Bank, it’s debt which is taken by people and businesses. Because only this debt is […]
E Weekly Report: Best & Worst Sectors And Stocks – November 24, 2014
Top scoring weekly returns: Buy and Hold 1 Year Click on picture to enlarge The best scoring sector across our universe of 1,600 stocks is utilities. Consumer goods, industrial goods, and services also score above average. In the services sector, focus more on large cap and mid cap stocks than on small cap stocks. Healthcare, […]
Most Of The World Panics — Is The US Next?
It’s been quite a month. In late October Japan, despite a year of fairly aggressive quantitative easing, dropped back into recession and concluded that even easier money was the cure for its ills. It announced a debt monetization plan of almost science-fictional proportions in which the amount of new yen to be created, as a […]
Alibaba Faces “Its Most Dangerous Moment”
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is China’s, and probably the world’s, biggest online commerce company. Millions of users as well as businesses and suppliers use their three main sites — Taobao, Tmall and Alibaba.com. Alibaba became one of the most valuable tech companies in the world after raising $25 billion from its U.S. IPO on September […]
The Best 5 Growth Stocks
I like growth, I like momentum and I like positive investor sentiment. I wanted to find all 3 so I took a list of stocks analysts picked as high growth and ran them through Barchart to find the 5 with the most frequent new highs in the last month to get my list. The list […]
More On Germany And Nuclear
This short paper is an upgrading of a document that I published about three years ago. I am resorting to this because of the extreme amount of criticism I received for that contribution, while my present work on the nuclear future is largely overlooked by members of the anti-nuclear booster club. This is almost certainly […]
T2108 Update – Overbought For A Hot Minute With Breakout Charts Galore
(T2108 measures the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages [DMAs]. It helps to identify extremes in market sentiment that are likely to reverse. To learn more about it, see my T2108 Resource Page. You can follow real-time T2108 commentary on twitter using the #T2108 hashtag. T2108-related trades and other trades are sometimes posted on […]
