Podcast: Play in new window | Play in new window (Duration: 13:16 — 6.1MB) DOW – 10 = 17,540 SPX + 6 = 2099 NAS + 34 = 5139 10 YR YLD + .06 = 2.27% OIL – .59 = 45.15 GOLD – 3.00 = 1085.50 SILV + .02 = 14.69 Private-sector hiring slowed in…
It’s not serious analysis, but it is amazing how a gap in a chart can haunt a market for so long. While there is no such gap on HUI, I took a look at the GDM and found one way back there at the start of the former secular bull market. It is almost as…
It’s not how much you make that ultimately matters in wealth accumulation but how much you keep, and the amount of your gains that get lost to taxes are a major factor in your realized returns. Thankfully, you don’t have to be a millionaire with an army of lawyers to effective game the tax code….
Transocean LTD. (RIG – Analyst Report) is a Houston based international provider of offshore contract drilling services for oil and gas wells. The company offers deepwater and harsh environment drilling, oil and gas drilling management, and drilling engineering and project management services. Some of their products, such as the Ultra-Deepwater Dual-Activity Drillship called the…
Today’s S&P close at exactly 2100 marked the culmination of a whole lot of choppin’. In fact, about six months worth, given that the big cap index first crossed the 2100 mark back in early February. ^SPX data by YCharts But do not be troubled, we are told by Wall Street. What the above chart signifies…
Gold rarely sees a pronounced backwardation in the futures markets, as we see in some other commodities. Even a slight backwardation over a period of time is unusual. This might be related to the lack of heavy physical delivery coming out (being withdrawn) from the Comex complex, especially in recent times where the number of…
Today I wanted to see which were the best Large Cap stocks. I used Barchart to sort stocks in the S&P 500 Large Cap Index to find the stocks with the highest Weighted Alpha and still had current Barchart technical buy signals of 80% or better. I also used the flipchart feature to review the…
DUST had a look of bearishness to it, which would have gone hand in hand with a bounce in the gold stocks that I have been more expecting than not. But this chart no longer has a bearish pattern. It has a sloppy pattern (that could be interpreted as an Ascending Triangle). The gold stock…
The Neiman Marcus Group (NMG) filed a prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday for an initial public offering that would raise $100 million, with that figure serving as more of a placeholder that will most likely be amended in the future. The filing comes just 2 years after a separate filing for Neiman…
The Neiman Marcus Group (NMG) filed a prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday for an initial public offering that would raise $100 million, with that figure serving as more of a placeholder that will most likely be amended in the future. The filing comes just 2 years after a separate filing for Neiman…
