Exactly one year ago, in its Global Financial Stability report, the IMF issued a stark warning when looking at the soaring level of private sector debt: it found that more than 20% of US corporations are at risk of defaults once interest rates rise, and calculated that the combined assets of firms threatened by default – those…
Emotional management is crucial to the ability to focus on what matters most in the trade. For instance, planning, stringent rule following and keeping commitments are some emotional management skills you’ll want to hone. There are those who would say that you should trade like a robot, meaning without emotions. They contend that, if you…
While affirming a tightening bias, The Bank of Canada blinked again today, opting to not raise its overnight rate for the second time in two months, noting the Canadian economy was slightly weaker than the bank had expected in the first quarter of 2018. Its next meeting date is May 30. Meanwhile, despite still relatively low-interest…
I am kind of fascinated by this VOO chart, which is based on the S&P 500. Check out the red horizontal as well as that dotted trendline. Notice how prices are mashed just beneath them. Taking a big step back, you can see the dotted line is simply the midline of the channel I’ve drawn, which goes…
The Australian Dollar has rallied nearly 2% off the yearly lows with prices now eyeing initial resistance hurdles. While the broader outlook does remain constructive, near-term the risk for a pullback in price has us looking for a possible exhaustion pullback to offer more favorable opportunities. AUD/USD DAILY PRICE CHART Technical Outlook: Earlier this month we highlighted…
Shares of eBay (EBAY) are on the rise after Morgan Stanley analyst Brian Nowak upgraded eBay (EBAY) two notches to Overweight as he expects the company to start intermediating its own payments, pulling away from PayPal (PYPL), which could be a driver of more sustained gross merchandise volume growth. MORGAN STANLEY SAYS BUY EBAY: In…
I believe it was U.S. President, Harry Truman, who once said he was tired of hearing from “two-handed-economists”. It seems that at the Bank of Canada two-handed economists continue to hold sway. Not unexpectedly, the Bank of Canada announced that it will hold its policy rate at 1.25 per cent. The Bank cited several factors…
There is a lot of weakness in the financial sector right now. I mean tons of it! The overall market looks great, and it is quite surprising this market is still managing to climb higher with out the financials being on board. The earnings season hasn’t been kind to them at all, with each report…
Americans have started to splurge on discretionary items after a ho-hum winter season. This is well reflected in the pickup in retailers’ March sales, putting an end to three straight months of a decline. Consumer outlays rose on the back of a strong jobs market, rise in income, tax cuts, and refunds. Consumer optimism, by…
Silver’s popping today. Which is what people following the futures market action have been expecting for several months now. Speculators – usually wrong at big turning points and almost always at least slightly net long silver – have suddenly gone net short. This is almost unprecedented, and implies that a short squeeze – in which…
