S&P 500 During the Friday session, the Nonfarm Payroll Numbers came out slightly better than expected at 215,000 for the month of March, as opposed to the expected 205,000. Initially, the S&P 500 fell during the day but found quite a bit of strength as we shot higher. We ended up forming a very positive…
There were some fireworks this week. Gold went up on Tuesday (it was a shortened week due to Easter Monday), from a low of $1,215 to $1,244 over the day, a move of over 2 percent. Silver moved from $15.02 to $15.44, almost 3 percent. What happened on Tuesday to drive this move down in the dollar?…
Incredible. In a matter of weeks, we’ve gone from a VIX in the 30s to a VIX that is threatening to go SUB-TEENS. Trade accordingly………like this guy:
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein Why in the world do investors completely disregard facts? Here’s a headline for you written by Amy Whyte on a recent article that appeared at ai-cio.com: “return chasing is rampant among US pensions, endowments, and insurers, the International Monetary…
The big economic news on Friday was the Department of Labor’s Employment Report for March. The mainstream press focused on two numbers: the 215K new jobs and the 5% unemployment rate. Over the next few days we’ll dig in a bit deeper to look at some of the underlying employment demographics, which in many ways…
Under various nation-building initiatives undertaken by the new government in India, the “Make In India” campaign has hogged limelight and there is a sense of optimism that it can trigger manufacturing driven growth. However, I am sceptical about the impact the manufacturing sector can have on the country’s exports and GDP growth. This article explains…
EUR/USD is trading at higher levels than it used to. What does this mean moving forward? Here is a technical view from Nordea: Here is their view, courtesy of eFXnews: While some technicals suggest the USD may pause here, the overall decline in volatility, caused by better global data – notably from China – is…
The Federal Reserve may have left interest rates steady last week, but the central banks of several Asian countries are due to make key policy decisions during the coming week. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will announce its decision on Tuesday and Moody’s Analytics expects the RBI will cut its policy rate by 25…
No bear market: another confirmation. During the last two bear markets once price fell below the 12 month moving average it never recovered until the bear was over. As you can see in the chart bellow, price has already recovered the long term average. All of the monthly indicators are turning back up. This was…
There came a certain point last year where it looked like Greece was ready to exit the Eurozone – if not under its own volition, then by force. The European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund – Greece’s troika of lenders – had just about had enough. Lo and behold, both sides managed…
