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Jeff Harding: This week’s data builds a further case for a declining economy and likelihood of the Fed doing another round of QE. These data hit all of the Fed’s marks for action: joblessness and unemployment, declining industrial production, low price inflation Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: The markets face numerous problems, including still-elevated bond yields in Spain and Italy, slowing global growth, and the media’s latest obsession…the dreaded “fiscal cliff”. Yet, despite all that, stocks and commodities are flashing bullish signals. Read more…
Ed Carlson: Lindsay’s model, Three Peaks and a Domed House, has a fantastic track record of calling bull market tops for over 100 years; often to the exact date and usually to within three days. The ability to create such an exact forecast requires the integration Read more…
Eric Dutram: The second quarter was, despite the overall market turmoil, a pretty solid one for the broad ETF industry. A handful of new funds hit the markets Read more…
Michael Snyder: Well, we just had another bad jobs report. The U.S. economy created just 80,000 new jobs during the month of June. Normally, about 125,000 new jobs need to be created every month just to keep up with population growth. Read more…
Jeff Harding: The recent U.S. manufacturing report is at the top of a mountain of bad economic news coming out. Whether these data will lead to a “new” recession (as defined by the NBER) remains to be seen, but at the very least the U.S. economy is stagnating, Read more…
Andy Crowder: I recently came across an article from a prominent options trader that truly disappointed me. The gentleman brought up the question as to whether or not credit spreads were a viable options strategy. For some, credit spreads are not a viable strategy Read more…
David Zeiler: Stock markets around the world soared Friday in reaction to the morning’s Eurozone debt crisis deal, but noted investorJim Rogers wasn’t impressed. Read more…
Mike Larson: I have a sinking suspicion. A feeling I just can’t shake based on multiple fundamental, technical, and timing indicators. My belief? Read more…
Stocks reversed dramatically in the final hour of trading yesterday, to end the session mixed. Trade was brisk across the board. All of the major indices were down by 1.2% or more intraday, before the market staged its impressive comeback. The S&P MidCap 400 showed Read more…
Michael Johnston: As we approach the halfway point of 2012, we are on track for yet another period of tremendous growth for the lineup of ETFs. More than a hundred new funds have begun Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: With Thursday developing into another big news day, let’s take a quick morning check on current daily resistance (or key) price levels and what to watch from here (upper and lower short-term targets) in the US Equity Markets. Read more…
Sy Harding: Global markets have rallied for two weeks, which has investor hopes high that the rally marks the end of the market correction that began in March. Read more…
Thomas Carreno: Today was a huge sign of weakness in the markets in terms of price, but not volume. We had a very large wide range bar, a typical clear sign of weakness Read more…
Jeff Harding: Much of what we see in recent economic growth is caused by one thing: cheap money and credit. This is obvious as we look at two important economic drivers: autos and homes. Both are significant in that they represent the two biggest purchases Read more…
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