Without Alcoa to lead off the Dow, the big banks basically kick off earnings season now. They mostly report earnings during a relatively quiet week with just 2 dozen companies expected to report earnings. But things pick up the second week of the season with about 200 companies reporting. That doesn’t mean you should ignore…
New U.S. Sanctions Hurt Russia’s Ruble and Benchmark Index Last Friday, as part of the U.S. effort to punish Moscow for “malign activity around the globe”, the U.S Treasury Department targeted numerous Russian oligarchs, officials, and companies by freezing their assets under U.S. jurisdiction. In addition, the U.S. also prohibits U.S. citizens or entities from…
Cash is the most risk-free position in your portfolio: you can’t make money but you also can’t lose money. That’s why investors and traders shift from holding assets to holding cash when they think that the market’s risk is increasing. Investors and traders who are starting to learn how to invest and trade want to…
EUR/USD 4 hour The EUR/USD bullish momentum broke above multiple resistance trend lines (dotted red) and is building an uptrend channel. This bullish price action could be either wave 1 (green) of the uptrend or a bearish correction within a larger ABC (brown) zigzag within wave 2 (purple). 1 hour The EUR/USD broke above multiple…
Gold prices ended Tuesday’s session up $3.11, marking the third consecutive rise, as a weaker U.S. dollar index provided support to the precious metal. The greenback fell after an official from the European Central Bank said that policymakers there would end bond purchases this year. Traders and investors are awaiting inflation data and minutes from…
Wholesale sales, seasonally adjusted, bounced back moderately in February 2018 after a sharp decline (revised even lower) in January. Sales in the latest monthly figures are left still lower than in December and only slightly more than in November. This is the familiar aftermath of Harvey and Irma’s aftermath. Unadjusted, year-over-year wholesale sales increased by…
AUD/USD extended its upside movement from 0.7642 to as high as 0.7769, facing the resistance at 0.7785. Support is at 0.7725, as long as this level holds, the upside move could be expected to continue. However, a breakdown below 0.7725 support would suggest that the uptrend is complete, then another fall towards 0.7650 could be…
Global economic growth is sputtering, and it isn’t the weather. The economic expectations bar is low thanks to repeated downgrades, but the surprise index is falling even faster as noted by the Financial Times. “Last year it became apparent that global growth was accelerating, but there are now reasons to believe that the acceleration phase is…
After opening the day flat, share markets in India have continued to trade rangebound, and are trading marginally below the dotted line. Sectoral indices are trading on a mixed note with stocks in the PSU sector and stocks in the energy sector leading the losses. The BSE Sensex is trading down by 3 points (down 0.1%), and the NSE Nifty is trading down by 15…
The market volatility this year has been blamed on a lot of factors. The initial selloff was blamed on a hotter than expected wage number in the January employment report that supposedly sparked concerns about inflation – although a similar number this month wasn’t mentioned as a cause of last Friday’s selling. The unwinding of…
