The U.S. Dollar struck a 7-year peak versus the Japanese Yen in the wake of unexpectedly strong labor data from the U.S. which tended to cement investors’ view of a forthcoming interest rate increase from the Federal Reserve Bank. Last Friday’s release of non-farms payroll data showed 321,000 new jobs were added last month, well above expectations…
As yields across the Treasury complex continue to rise this week – amid desks complaining of no liquidity at all (and following yesterday’s weak auction) – the yield curve (5s30s) has collapsed to 108bps, its flattest since June 2008. 2s30s continues to slide also (at 212bps) almost eerily perfectly tracking the plunge in the curve of…
As natural resources bounced all over the charts in 2014, readers turned to the experts interviewed by The Gold Report for insights on what was driving these ups and downs, and how they could protect themselves—or, better yet, benefit—from the volatility. We combed through interviews with experts featured during the year, and offer some thoughts you might…
The New York and London gold and silver markets have gone into an interesting state, wherein much is claimed, but little is ever allowed to leave. New York and London ought not to be permitted to set prices for the world using the power of the United States Dollar. There will be a Christmas posting later,…
Written by Gary Markets closed early in accordance to Holiday schedules. During the last several minuted the averages suffered a -0.4% drop that recovered 0.2% at the close. Holiday market traffic is hard to judge what is the ‘real flavor’ of the investors thinking. But it was obvious that some investors decided to jump ship at…
As soon as I noticed the unusually high options trading activity in Conn’s Inc. (CONN), I triggered the trade I first discussed on December 12th. On the shortened trading day of Christmas Eve, January call options flew off the shelves in CONN. At the time of writing, the Jan $17.50s saw volume of 3,536 versus open…
Since 2010, the average return for our weekly best scoring small caps has outpaced the R2K by a median 711 bps over the following year. The best performers from one year ago are CENX up 147%, UEIC up 62%, GTIV up 52%, and GBX up 51%. The best small cap sector is utilities. The top…
Today I used Barchart to sort the S&P 600 Small Cap Index stocks to find the ones with the most frequent new highs in the last month and S&P 600 Small Cap Index (NASDAQ:HWAY) was right at the top of the list: Healthways, Inc. is the leading and largest provider of specialized, comprehensive Health and Care Support programs and…
Happy Holidays! We wish all our readers happy holidays and a prosperous and healthy new year. As we announced last week, the blog will go on a one week hiatus over the holidays until year end – unless something especially noteworthy happens that requires immediate comment (asteroid strike, Greek presidential election going awry, etc.). A…
Why it’s almost Christmas Eve, Mr. Scrooge! The Global markets are closed tomorrow and we’re bound to have a very slow day – if you are looking for a Santa Clause rally on today’s trading, you are very likely to be disappointed. Today is a day for relaxation and reflection. Remember, the words of Jacob Marley,…
