Dow Up 27 Points After Fed Minutes
By Garrett Baldwin The DJIA Index added 27 points Wednesday following a busy day of earnings reports and the release of minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in March. The...
View ArticleWorld Markets Review
By Jeffrey P. Snider Since November of 2014, the S&P 500 Index (IVV) has been traded within a range of 150 or so points. During that time, it has broken the 50-day moving average a total of 7...
View ArticleGold Not Yet Bottomed in Dollar
By Commodities Now Demand and dollar prices continue to build a base Like most markets, gold takes time to recover from periods of turbulence and in early 2015 it is continuing the stabilization of...
View ArticleGeneral Electric Company Resorts To Financial Engineering to Boost Stock...
GE Underperforms Market Jeff Immelt, feeling the pressure for a stock price that has vastly underperformed the overall market during his tenure as CEO at General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), has finally...
View ArticleOil Price: A Sword That Cuts Both Ways
By Benedict Clements and Marta Ruiz-Arranz Plunging oil prices have taken the public finances on an exciting ride the past six months. Oil prices have fallen about 45 percent since September (see April...
View ArticleMore Thoughts on the Current Oil Market
WTI surged to close at $56.01 a barrel on Wednesday, while Brent closed at $62.86 after the US crude oil inventories showed a ‘less-than-expected increase’. The latest weekly inventory (week ending...
View ArticleIs LinkedIn Corp Mania Over After 20% Plunge? (LNKD)
By Mike Shedlock It’s tough predicting the end to manias. Yesterday I pondered a 21% plunge in extended hours trading in LinkedIn Corp (NYSE:LNKD). Is the mania over? Please consider LinkedIn Plunges...
View ArticleHere’s Why Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Still Betting on International Business...
By David Sterman As a resident of New York State’s Hudson Valley, I have met dozens of local citizens who worked for International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) in its heyday. A massive set of...
View ArticlePaypal Holdings Inc (PYPL) Returns to the Online Gambling World
Following the merger of Paypal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL) with eBay in 2003, the company placed a self-imposed ban on the use of its services on online gambling platforms. One of the main reasons given...
View ArticleApple Inc (AAPL): A Long-Term Short For The Patient Investor
Holiday Melt Up in Stocks Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and most stocks do routinely well during the 4th quarter, and especially the last couple of months of trading after earnings are out, and the fund...
View ArticleEconMatters: Thoughts on The Current Oil Market
WTI 6-month Chart Source: nasdaq.com, as of 3/23/2015 am Crude oil has slid into a definitive bear market starting 2H14. The post EconMatters: Thoughts on The Current Oil Market appeared first on...
View ArticleGold: Impact From The Fed and Fear Trade
Following the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen made it clear (again) that interest rates would not be ... The post Gold: Impact From The Fed and Fear...
View ArticleMillions of Dollars Gone Up in Smoke By Distressed Energy Loans
Oil companies continue to get burned by low oil prices, but the pain is bleeding over into the financial industry. Major banks are ... The post Millions of Dollars Gone Up in Smoke By Distressed...
View ArticleU.S. New Home Sales Jump to 7-year High? Must Have Been a Cold Winter…
Do you know how cold it was up north this year? How cold was it? The post U.S. New Home Sales Jump to 7-year High? Must Have Been a Cold Winter… appeared first on Smarter Analyst.
View ArticleU.S. Jobless Claims Bubbling Up
Initial jobless claims have reached an all time record low level for this time in March in a continuing string of record lows ... The post U.S. Jobless Claims Bubbling Up appeared first on Smarter...
View ArticleOil Crash Showcasing Refiners
By Chad Fraser As with any big economic shift, the oil-price plunge has left winners and losers in its wake. On the winning side ... The post Oil Crash Showcasing Refiners appeared first on Smarter...
View ArticleInsider Reveals Another Oil Crash Coming
By Karim Rahemtulla Crude oil prices touched their lowest closing level in six years last week, then rallied on the back of a ... The post Insider Reveals Another Oil Crash Coming appeared first on...
View ArticleAnother 8 Million Barrels Added to Oil Storage
EIA Inventory Report The EIA Petroleum Report came out yesterday and the report was pretty bearish. Much worse than the API Report released ... The post Another 8 Million Barrels Added to Oil Storage...
View ArticleETF Performance Review: US REITs Lead As Commodities Plunge
By James Picerno US Real estate investment trusts (REITs) are still firmly in the lead among the major asset classes for the trailing one-year period. ... The post ETF Performance Review: US REITs...
View ArticleCould An Iran Nuclear Deal Send Oil To $20?
By Tyler Durden As the deadline for Iran nuclear talks looms, the possibility of a deal which in some way lifts crude export ... The post Could An Iran Nuclear Deal Send Oil To $20? appeared first on...
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