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Some Fed Officials Are Seeing Clearly
Author: Bob Lang (info)
Website: http://trade-mentor.com
Posted: March 5th, 2008 at 11:31 am EST
Memo from the Fed: ‘We Get It Now’
It’s tough to admit you make mistakes, especially when you have a big ego. The complacency by the Fed last year and the Government as a whole in their tar-footed response to the subprime mortgage and housing mess is typical of Washington action. But the […]
2008 Market Outlook: Election Year Impact
Author: Andrew Hart (info)
Website: http://bigtrends.com
Posted: January 3rd, 2008 at 9:55 am EST
As the New Year begins we’re continuing our 2008 Outlook Series. Rather than wrap our 2008 forecast into one long report, we’ve decided to make this week’s TrendWatches our 2008 outlook. On Monday we looked at sectors, and yesterday’s TrendWatch focused on the indices’ 2008 performance. Today we’ll look at the political […]
Three Sides of the Fed Argument
Author: Bob Lang (info)
Website: http://trade-mentor.com
Posted: July 31st, 2007 at 12:51 pm EST
In the past, we’ve had extended talks about the Fed and their position in the markets. Mostly, it’s been our stance (and the correct one) that the Fed is in ‘watch mode’, and is not active in terms of rate moves. Of course being data dependent, that opinion is subject to change. […]
Market Update - First DOW 12,400+ Close
Author: David J. Kosmider (info)
Website: http://eidoan.com/
Posted: December 14th, 2006 at 5:18 pm EST
On strong earnings reports and economic data, stock prices shot way up in the first hour of trading today. After that, performance was mixed on the major indexes. The Russell 2000 and the NASDAQ 1000 declined slightly from this point, while the rest of the major indexes continued to climb slowly for the rest of […]
Market Update - Fed Leaves Rates Unchanged
Author: David J. Kosmider (info)
Website: http://eidoan.com/
Posted: December 12th, 2006 at 5:25 pm EST
The Federal Reserve decided to leave rates unchanged today at 5.25% for the fourth straight meeting. The markets reacted negatively to the Fed’s worries about the housing market. All of the major indexes traded lower today, except the S&P 100 did end 0.02 points higher today. Though the majority of the declines were around noon […]
Market Update - Oil passes $63/barrel
Author: David J. Kosmider (info)
Website: http://eidoan.com/
Posted: November 30th, 2006 at 5:18 pm EST
The markets ended mixed today with only the S&P 500 (SPX) and the Russell 2000 (RUT) ending the day in positive territory. All of the major indexes were showing gains for the day at the start of the last hour of trading, but a sharp sell off in the last few minutes sent several of […]
Pick Your Poison
Author: James Brumley (info)
Website: http://bluegrassportfolio.com
Posted: November 28th, 2006 at 5:00 am EST
Well, we’d be kidding ourselves if we said things weren’t ‘interesting’ right now. What appeared to be a non-stop rally finally took a major blow yesterday, which prompts us to ask the question of whether or not this is the end of the road (it’s not yet, technically). In the meantime, the U.S. dollar is […]
Who’s Winning The Value-vs-Growth and Market Cap War?
Author: James Brumley (info)
Website: http://bluegrassportfolio.com
Posted: November 14th, 2006 at 6:06 pm EST
Who’s winning the value-vs-growth war? More importantly, who’s likely to win it in 2007? And for that matter, how do the large companies stack up against the small companies right now? Read on.
Interest Rates and the Bond Market
Author: Bob Lang (info)
Website: http://trade-mentor.com
Posted: November 13th, 2006 at 1:37 am EST
We’ve seen some serious gyrations in the bond market the last couple of weeks. A cascade of buying into bonds ensued after when some slow growth news hit the wires. In fact, the ten year bond yield peaked in this latest cycle on Oct 23 just under 4.85%. From that point, yields cascaded lower, reaching nine month lows just above 4.5%. Not a big move you say? For a rate this low and to be this late in the growth cycle, it was pretty substantial.
Market Update
Author: David J. Kosmider (info)
Website: http://eidoan.com/
Posted: November 9th, 2006 at 5:43 pm EST
After three days of election-fueled gains, the markets traded lower today. All of the major indexes were down today with the highest percentage loss coming from the Russell 2000. Gold, Silver and Oil all saw major gains today though.
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