Benchmarks finished Thursday’s choppy run mostly lower as investors took a cautious approach ahead of Friday’s nonfarm payroll report. While the day’s mixed economic reports had some negative impact on the S&P 500 and the Dow, the Nasdaq ended in positive territory due to gains in Internet stocks.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, make sure to […]
Escalating political tension between Ukraine and Russia over the Crimean region dragged the benchmarks down to their worst selloffs in about a month. Concerns that the movement of Russian troops in the Crimean region of Ukraine may lead to larger conflict saw investors moving to the safe havens. Encouraging reports on ISM Manufacturing Index, construction spending and personal income failed […]
US Dollar gapping down relative to Japanese Yen.Carry trade will force massive margin calls on Hedge Funds that bought US stocks.This could be the 1929 crash scenario that has been advertised for the past weeks.8 bankers have committed suicide since 1st of year.George Soros bought $1.3Billion in S&P500 puts betting on a crash.Stay tuned for updates.http://johngaltfla.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/JPY_USD_0302_1712ETjgfla.jpghttp://johngaltfla.com/wordpress/2014/03/02/03-02-stock-market-alert-risk-the-hell-off/?utm_source=FMN&utm_medium=twitterS&P500 Futures just opened.Gapped down […]
Posted Wednesday, February 26 – 7:45 AM(AFP) – US stocks gained modestly in early trade Wednesday with investors mostly tentative ahead of Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s testimony in Congress on Thursday.An hour into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 54.46 points (0.34 percent) at 16,234.12.The broader S&P 500 gained 5.54 (0.30 percent) at 1,850.66, while the Nasdaq […]
Benchmarks moved up on Thursday as investors received a boost after a reading on manufacturing activity hit a four year high. Also, Facebook’s deal to buy WhatsApp and Tesla Motors’ strong results somewhat added to the positive sentiment. The gains on Thursday came despite weak data from China, Japan and Euro zone amidst a report of contraction in Philadelphia Fed’s […]
USD/JPY bulls may soon take the initiative – technical analysisForex News | Written By Dimitry Loukashov |
Created: Feb 20, 2014 13:47 GMT
Today there are two indicators of the U.S. economy – the core CPI for this month and initial jobless claims for the previous week (Unemployment Claims) coming out at once.The CPI is longer-term indicator and therefore it is more […]
Stock Market Uncertainty Following Recent RallyStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Feb 19, 2014 – 04:24 AM GMTBy: Paul_Rejczak
Our intraday outlook remains bearish, and our short-term outlook is neutral:Intraday (next 24 hours) outlook: bearish
Short-term (next 1-2 weeks) outlook: neutral
Medium-term (next 1-3 months) outlook: neutral
Long-term outlook (next year): bullishThe U.S. stock market indexes gained between 0.1% and 0.8% on Friday, […]
Stock Trading Alert: Uncertainty Following Recent Rally By: Paul Rejczak | Tue, Feb 18, 2014 SharePrintEmailStock
Trading Alert originally published on Feb 18, 2014, 6:52 AMOur intraday outlook remains bearish, and our short-term outlook is neutral:Intraday (next 24 hours) outlook: bearishShort-term (next 1-2 weeks) outlook: neutralMedium-term (next 1-3 months) outlook: neutralLong-term outlook (next year): bullishThe U.S. stock […]
While my background is as a long-only investor, I believe there are very few asymmetric opportunities for the risk-averse long investor in today’s market. While this is a negative, the upshot is that there is no shortage of exciting opportunities to short (massively) overvalued stocks. Today, I will profile three stocks which I believe are significantly mispriced and are likely […]
Weaker-than-expected domestic manufacturing data hammered benchmarks yesterday and the markets witnessed their worst selloff in many months. Nine of S&P 500’s industry groups slumped, with this index along with the Dow suffering their worst declines since June 20. Nasdaq had its biggest single-day decline since June 1. The decline on the first trading session of February came right after benchmarks […]
