Monthly Archives: December 2014

Can The Rally In Treasury Bond ETFs Continue?

The strength in the Treasury bond markets has surprised many analysts. At the end of last year, many were expecting that interest rates will go up in 2014 as the economic growth picks up and Fed moves towards raising interest rates. But interest rates have moved significantly lower this year, benefiting Treasury bond ETFs. One…

Jorge Posada’s (Financial) Slump

Add Yankee great, Jorge Posada to the long list of names of professional athletes who have been misled by their investment advisors. There are of course several accounts of this around the web but according to the NY Post, he lost millions on a real estate deal, and in a hedge fund run by his advisors. The…

Great Graphic: Oil, Metals, And China’s Mfg PMI

These two Great Graphics were created on Bloomberg. The first shows the price of crude oil (white line) and the JOC-ECRI index industrial metals index (yellow line). The metals included are steel, copper, aluminum, zinc, lead, tin and nickel.   The two times series were indexed to levels seen twelve months ago. They both moved largely sides for the first…