This month, the price of WTI crude oil has surged by more than 7% while Brent has surged by almost 10%. The upward movements of the crude oil may be attributed to the ongoing risks in the Middle East. The Syrian crisis has escalated, leading the US, UK, and France to launch targeted attacks. Russia…
Tough start to the week for Chinese shares. Mainland equities tumbled ahead of the latest read on GDP from the engine of global growth and trade. The number will come on the heels of the trade data we got last week which betrayed a surprise deficit, the first since February of 2017. That was summarily written off…
Oil is down as the strike on Syria’s alleged chemical weapons facilities was “mission accomplished”. The attack was by the American, French and British coalition, that the US said destroyed Syria’s chemical-weapons capabilities. The fears that this would escalate have eased so oil is back to a focus on supply and demand. Global supply is tightening and demand is strong….
Last Thursday’s signals might have produced a long trade entry following the bullish rejection of the support level identified at $6,793, which would have produced a spectacularly profitable trade. Today’s BTC/USD Signals Risk 0.75% per trade. Trades may only be entered before 5pm Tokyo time, over the next 24-hour period. Short Trades Go short after a…
Small Worlds We predict things all the time, we can’t help ourselves. And in the small world that constitutes our immediate bubble of experience, those predictions may have some validity. But in the big world that we inhabit they often don’t. Which of those worlds do you think more accurately represents stock market investment? It’s…
The Syrian strike over the weekend, and the official indication that “mission accomplished” and that was a limited one-off strike has spurred a little market reaction. There is one more loose end, as it were, and that is that the US has indicated it will announce additional sanctions on Russia for its involvement in Syria’s…
Closing out the 1st week of earnings season found the major averages higher last week. In the wake of earnings results from Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Blackrock and JP Morgan Chase, however, investors found the earnings reports to be a sell the news type of event. The banks and financial institutions managed to beat results handily,…
EUR/USD The EUR/USD pair had a volatile session on Friday, initially trying to break above the 1.2350 level, but then pulling back only to bounce again. By doing so, we ended up forming a hammer at the 50-day EMA, which of course is a very bullish sign. We still have the uptrend line and tact…
Last month I wrote that the January JOLTS report reflected very positive trends. Today they got revised away. As a refresher, unlike the jobs report, which tabulates the net gain or loss of hiring over firing, the JOLTS report breaks the labor market down into openings, hirings, firings, quits, and total separations. I pay little…
If Chinese yuan were to weaken after China GDP data, short AUD/USD? China 1Q GDP may reflect its waning domestic demand China 1Q GDP report is due tomorrow and the result is likely to point towards a relatively strong overseas demand and softer domestic demand. This may offer some sentiments to the market that weaker…
