greek

Wall Street’s Incessant Rose-Colored Glasses

Submitted by Joseph Calhoun via Alhambra Investment Partners,

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power not truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.
Steven Wright
I think one of the hardest […]

Greek debt crisis: Greece begins repaying ECB and IMF as banks …

The VAT rose from 13% to 23%, making some meats, cooking oils other than olive oil, cocoa, vinegar, salt, flowers, firewood, fertilizer, insecticides, sanitary towels and other basics all more expensive.Services hit by the new VAT increases include restaurants and cafes, funeral parlors, taxis, cramming and tutorial schools very popular with Greek students seeking to make up for the deficiencies […]

Bonds Bid, Stocks Skid, & Crude Crushed As Yellen Pleads & Greece Bleeds

China loses momentum in its manipulation overnight… US industrial production data was dismal… Yellen admits The Fed needs to raise rates sooner or may be forced to raise rates more aggressively… and stocks did not drop until TV images showed blood on the streets of Athens… This just seemed appropriate…“hearts on fire” indeed – can the small undersize reality of […]

The Daily, Part 1 of 3, 7-11-15

* * * *
7/11/2015 Investment House Report
* * * *MARKET ALERTS:Targets hit: None issuedBuy alerts: JACKTrailing stops: None issuedStop alerts: None issuedThe market alert service is a premium level service where we issue intraday alerts relating to the general market conditions, when stocks hit action points (buy, stop, target, etc.), and when we see other information impacting the market or […]

New York stock exchange suspends trading after technical glitch …

Traders work on the floor of the New York stock exchange at the start of the trading day on Wednesday. Photograph: Justin Lane/EPA
The New York stock exchange halted trading in all securities on Wednesday morning after a “major technical issue”.Related: New York Stock Exchange shut down over ‘technical issue’ – live updates
The exchange posted the news on its website and […]

European Stocks, Chinese Stocks And Commodities Are All …

European Stocks, Chinese Stocks And Commodities Are All Crashing – Are U.S. Stocks Next?
By Michael Snyder, on July 7th, 2015A global stock market crash has begun.  European stocks are crashing, Chinese stocks are crashing, and commodities are crashing.  And guess what?  All of those things happened before U.S. stocks crashed in the fall of 2008 too.  In so many […]

Greece Saved the Biotech Bull Market!

Biotechs rise on Greece ‘No’ Vote!Amazing news, right? I mean, who would think the news out of Greece would push biotech stocks higher?But apparently it did. The Greek people let the world know they ain’t interested in more austerity (not that they really had any). Meanwhile, biotechs were the strongest group of stocks on the market to kick off the […]

The 4 Stocks That Weighed on the Market Monday – General Electric …

The 4 Stocks That Weighed on the Market MondayBy Paul Ausick July 6, 2015 4:01 pm EDTPrintEmail July 6, 2015: Markets opened lower on Monday following the Greek vote on Sunday to tell the the troika not only “no,” but “hell, no.” European equities markets closed lower and only the Shanghai exchange closed higher in Asia. U.S. stocks briefly traded […]

#MarketUpdate: It’s all Greek to me…The markets opened in the…

#MarketUpdate: It’s all Greek to me…The markets opened in the red as expected, rallied to near unchanged and at midday are just modestly lower. The Dow is off 44 points, Nasdaq Comp in the red by 14 pts, S&P-500 lower by 6pts, and the Russell 2000 is holding up the best with only a 3 point loss. For some context, […]

Greek crisis: financial markets buffeted after no vote | World news …

A currency trader walks by a screen showing the Korea composite stock price index at the Korea Exchange Bank headquarters in Seoul. Photograph: Ahn Young-joon/AP
Share prices were sent tumbling across the Asia-Pacific on Monday after Greece’s resounding no vote in the weekend’s bailout referendum raised fears it could be forced to exit the eurozone.While significant losses had not descended into […]