Asian stocks are lower today as Japanese and Hong Kong shares fall. The Nikkei 225 is off 0.09% while the Hang Seng is down 0.08%. The Shanghai Composite is trading up by 0.72%. Overnight US stocks closed with gains as investors looked forward to earnings season. Back home, India share markets opened the day on a flat note. The BSE Sensex is trading higher…
S&P 500 The S&P 500 rallied a bit during the trading session on Tuesday, breaking above the 2600 level. Ultimately, I think that the market should continue to reach towards the 2680 level, an area that is resistance. If we can break above the top of that level, then we should go looking towards the…
Note: We’ve updated this commentary with data through Tuesday’s market close. Let’s take a closer look at recent activity in US Treasuries. The yield on the 10-year note ended Tuesday at 2.79% and the 30-year bond closed at 3.02%. The 2-10 yield spread is now at 0.51%. Here is a table showing the yields highs…
Wall Street is off to a disastrous start in the second quarter. Major bourses tumbled into correction for the second time this year and closed below key technical levels. Elevated trade tensions between the United States and China along with weakness in large-cap tech stocks are cited to be the reasons for the free fall….
The final Q4 GDP revision ended up showing 2.9% growth which was up 0.4% from the prior revision. The consumer was at the heart of the growth as consumer spending grew 4% which was up from the prior report which showed 3.8% growth. The non-durable spending growth was increased from 4.3% to 4.8%. The durable spending was…
CoreLogic’s Home Price Index (HPI) shows that home prices in the USA are up 6.7 % year-over-year (reported up 1.0 % month-over-month). CoreLogic HPI is used in the Federal Reserves’ Flow of Funds to calculate the values of residential real estate. Analyst Opinion of CoreLogic’s HPI CoreLogic year-over-year rate of growth has been steady for…
The re-emergence of trade war fears has sent tremors across the Wall Street. This is because China has targeted about $3 billion in American exports in retaliation against Donald Trump’s tariff on steel and aluminum import. The second-largest country has slapped a duty on 128 American food products effective Apr 2. Of these, 120 products,…
Today we have an exotic annual report to cover and lots of news after the snow has been cleared or melted here. The goods range from China to India, from Mexico to Sweden, from Qatar to Israel, from Myanmar to Japan, from Switzerland to Britain, plus lots of points in between. China At Work *Reporting…
The are few snarkier defenders of the current rotten financial status quo than Ben White of Politico’s Money Morning. So it’s not surprising that he is out this AM with the latest Trumb-o-phobe meme from Swamp Dweller’s Central. To wit, the renewed stock market swoon is purportedly all the Donald’s fault owing to his unhinged tweetstorms, protectionist trade initiatives and attacks on the casino’s sacred cow…
iStock.com/jmiksjmiks Soaring LIBOR Foretells Financial Crisis: Investors Beware This statement may sound very bold, but it’s worth making: we could be on the cusp of another financial crisis. If this is actually the case, investors need to be extra vigilant. We could see massive declines in asset prices across the board. Why could there be…
