Photo credit: jonesylife || Oh look, a dozen doves flying at the FOMC! June 2015 July 2015 Comments Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in April suggests that economic activity has been expanding moderately after having changed little during the first quarter. Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in June indicates…
The hourly chart of 3x Gold Miner bear DUST looks bearish to me. If the pattern becomes activated it would target the little gap and lower, down to 22. It’ll be interesting to see if it can tick down below 31.
Yesterday I found myself reading GMO’s latest quarterly letter and thinking, ‘wow, I’m fairly bearish but Jeremy Grantham just sounds like a grumpy old man!’ Until I came upon this passage: …you may think that I am particularly pessimistic. It is not true: It is all of you who are optimistic! Not only does our species have…
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (GT – Analyst Report) reported a 5% increase in adjusted earnings per share to 84 cents in the second quarter of 2015 from 80 cents a year ago (all excluding special items). Moreover, earnings comfortably surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 74 cents. Adjusted net income improved 1.8% to $229 million from…
Fed Says Little, Sheds No Light If the Fed had a clue as to what it will do in September, it likely would have said so. Instead, it reiterated the same hash we have been hearing for years. Here is the complete text of today’s FOMC Press Release. Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee…
Now that we’re getting a hearty rally, a new opportunity may be revealing itself by way of the emerging markets fund, shown below. There’s a gap at 37.56, which also corresponds nicely with a broken supporting trendline. The closer we get to that price level, the more appealing the risk/reward ratio is.
The Fed did nothing, but continued to smooth the way for some rate hikes. The hikes have little to do with the economy or The Recovery™. Or what George Mason Prof Tony Sanders calls The Bartender Recovery. The Fed would like to get off the zero bound so that they have room to cut the next…
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The Federal Reserve provided limited forward guidance in today’s statement. It said that it “anticipates that it will be appropriate to raise the target range for the Fed funds rate when it has seem some further improvement in the labor market…” This is the key. There will be two more employment reports that will be released…
Shares of Galena Biopharma (GALE) are up 5% after the company announced that it has launched its anti-nausea drug known as Zuplenz . Zuplenz is an oral soluble film that helps reduce nausea and vomiting in patients with: Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting — CINV Radiotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting — RINV Post-operative nausea and vomiting —…
