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S&P futures are up 10 handles Monday morning, reacting to Greece’s parliament’s final approval new, stricter austerity measures. The vote now paves the way for another international bailout package that will prevent a hard default on March 20. While the market is Read more…
Stocks closed modestly higher yesterday on brisk trade. All five major indices finished in positive territory, with the Nasdaq (NASDAQ:QQQ) showing the most resiliency. The tech-rich index added 0.4%. The S&P 500 (NYSEArca:SPY) gained 0.2%, while both the small-cap Russell 2000 (NYSEArca:IWM) Read more…
Jason Cimpl: The yield on U.S. bonds is abysmal. While I realize that I don’t need to tell retirees something they already know, such a low interest rate is a crisis that faces many American citizens. Read more…
Jeff Harding: I am very critical of Bill Gross of PIMCO and have named him of one our Crony Capitalists of the Month because of his insistence that the Fed bail out his industry. Mr. Gross, as we all know, has been very successful in his run at PIMCO and I respect him for that. But I will say that I don’t Read more…
Scott Pluschau: I recently wrote a few articles explaining the Legacy Commitments of Traders report and the Open Interest of Futures. Here’s last week’s article on the Euro and its COT report. In this week’s report (January 18-24th) there were some major moves made by the commercial traders in the 10 Read more…
Matt Tucker: A picture is worth a thousand words: Read more…
Jeff Harding: The Fed didn’t change any policies yesterday, but they have really bought into the “jaw, jaw, jaw” theory of monetary policy by extending the low interest rate (ZIRP) policy out to late 2014 from their former mid-2013 target. That is, they believe if the markets rely on the Fed’s word to keep Read more…
Scott Pluschau: The 20 year+ U.S. Treasury Bond exchange traded fund (NYSEArca:TLT) is skating on thin ice. A “head and shoulders” pricing pattern developed on the Daily chart recently. A head and shoulders pattern shows a gradual overcoming of supply vs. demand and it can have serious Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: Following up with my prior inter-market post this week “Something’s Gotta Give,” let’s take a look at the sharp down-move that developed since then as seen in the iShares Read more…
Larry D. Spears: The U.S. dollar (NYSEARCA:UUP) will start 2012 on an upswing – but don’t let it fool you. What we’re seeing is only a short-term rally inspired by Europe’s travails. In the long-term, the U.S. Federal Reserve‘s loose monetary policy and the United States’ own debt burden will drive the Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: We noted extreme levels of optimism earlier today. What could possibly trigger a correction in stocks and commodities? If the Fed fails to signal and/or announce another round of quantitative easing (QE), it would undoubtedly leave the markets disappointed. Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: After gold‘s (NYSEARCA:GLD) nearly $150 rebound from its December low, Marc Faber continues to believe that gold is not done with its correction, but he recommends the precious metal during an environment of negative real yields on U.S. Treasuries engineered by a Bernanke Fed. Read more…
The Daily Capitalist: On the morning of this past Friday the 13th, I was greeted on my home page, Bloomberg.com, by the lead story– which was of investors cheering and captioned by the statement that good news is at hand, CEOs are now in a hiring mood. I had an uh-oh moment in my usual Read more…
Much has been made about the perfect market timing that can be derived by the doing the opposite of what the herd, or small investor, is doing. While this 
Fixed income investors with their bats on their shoulders for have asked the same question of U.S. treasuries for years: Yields can’t possibly go lower, can they?They may 
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