With Japan’s move to negative interest rates the FED is throwing out ideas for such also. In spite of all this action, Japan stock markets are down three percent since their move. Go Figure. In the meantime the S&P will…Continue Reading →
Back on February 10, 2015, almost a year ago we outlined in this blog why Oil could decline to $ 22. We revisited that projection on October 13, 2015. Today Oil is back on the front page. Yes we still…Continue Reading →
What is the goal here? Why are two particular people moving to the top in the election cycle? I would suggest that the population is tired of capital moving into a lot of areas that do not make their lives…Continue Reading →
You would think he would be a global market CEO, but Tim Cook of Apple apparently is more a techie based on his fretting about the value of the dollar yesterday. A little tip here, he hasn’t seen anything yet…Continue Reading →
The over reaching FED is a force that all investors must keep in the back of their mind. At the moment, the S&P price level swing low of 1812.29 set on 1/20/16 is kind of the FED’s breakpoint. A market…Continue Reading →
As mentioned a couple of days ago, today January 22nd, marks eight years for this website. We had three main objectives at the start: I. To present to readers an overview of a major economic situation that was close to…Continue Reading →
It is always interesting to put an investor reaction overlay to the markets. Today our website and email responses have jumped, reaching and exceeding October 2014 levels. My response to the questions asked is simple,: First, yes we have seen…Continue Reading →
Over the weekend we finally got around to seeing the movie “The Big Short”. I kind of related to the dialogue, having started trading in 1970, and then starting this Blog in January 2008 as the fiasco was about to…Continue Reading →
The markets have had a bit of a dip since the beginning of the year but there has been little panic. That is to be expected after two generations of traders have learned that the FED will always step in…Continue Reading →
Janet Yellen and the FED are so predictable and being so they are allowing some other entity to take control, ie, either; the Market, Global credit conditions, Political Upheaval, or Terrorism. They are trying to keep the game going, raising…Continue Reading →