From Wikipedia: “In English, the phrase fly in the ointment is an idiomatic expression for a drawback, especially one that was not at first apparent, e.g. We had a cookstove, beans, and plates; the fly in the ointment was the lack of a can opener.” For four centuries, ‘a fly in the ointment’ has meant a small defect that spoils something valuable or...Read More
Gold has been misunderstood and ignored by retail investors, financial advisors and pension managers as a critical portfolio asset during normal market conditions. However, during periods of market stress, such as we are experiencing now, gold becomes a safe haven asset that will mitigate losses in the portfolio. For a number of years, many experts have been warning about overinflated market...Read More
Back at the 2008 crash low in the HUI there was a reversal pattern, that is pretty rare, which helped confirm that very important low. If you ever wondered what the 2007 – 2008 top looked like and the decline that followed to the 2008 crash low this daily chart for the HUI paints the Chartology I posted at the tent, in real time, as the impulse move to the downside took place.The 2007 &ndash...Read More
From Wikipedia: “In English, the phrase fly in the ointment is an idiomatic expression for a drawback, especially one that was not at first apparent, e.g. We had a cookstove, beans, and plates; the fly in the ointment was the lack of a can opener.” For four centuries, ‘a fly in the ointment’ has meant a small defect that spoils something valuable or...Read More
Gold has been misunderstood and ignored by retail investors, financial advisors and pension managers as a critical portfolio asset during normal market conditions. However, during periods of market stress, such as we are experiencing now, gold becomes a safe haven asset that will mitigate losses in the portfolio. For a number of years, many experts have been warning about overinflated market...Read More
Back at the 2008 crash low in the HUI there was a reversal pattern, that is pretty rare, which helped confirm that very important low. If you ever wondered what the 2007 – 2008 top looked like and the decline that followed to the 2008 crash low this daily chart for the HUI paints the Chartology I posted at the tent, in real time, as the impulse move to the downside took place.The 2007 &ndash...Read More
From Wikipedia: “In English, the phrase fly in the ointment is an idiomatic expression for a drawback, especially one that was not at first apparent, e.g. We had a cookstove, beans, and plates; the fly in the ointment was the lack of a can opener.” For four centuries, ‘a fly in the ointment’ has meant a small defect that spoils something valuable or...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold daily chart shows the massive move from $1450-1740's within a 5 week period, wow!Read More
The Dow finished the the week up 12.7%The Dow finished the last day of the holiday-shorted week up over 280 points, losing some of its midday rally after Democrats in congress blocked McConnell's bid to unanimously add $250 billion in small-business aid. However, the Fed announced new programs directed at small and medium-sized business, totaling up to $2.3 trillion. This news was enough to out...Read More
Stocks chugged higher as the government responded to the coronavirus crisis with more funding While the first full trading week of April was a short one, it was jam-packed with market-moving headlines, which, for the most part, kept the major indexes chugging higher. On Monday, the Dow extended its Friday rally as news over slowing coronavirus cases in New York and Europe encouraged investors. Som...Read More
Bank stocks will kick off earnings season next week Investors will return from a long weekend to the start of yet another earnings season, with bank stocks taking center stage this week. Blue chips JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and Goldman Sachs (GS) will start it off, while sector peers Morgan Stanley (MS) and Wells Fargo (WFC) will also attract investor's attention. Dow component and healthcare issue Uni...Read More
BlackRock's massive Aladdin software will be hosted on Microsoft's platformLast night BlackRock, Inc (NYSE:BLK) announced Aladdin, its investment management and operations platform, will be hosted on Microsoft's (MSFT)Azure cloud network. In response, Deutsche Bank hiked its price target to $478 from $462, and Jefferies moved to $525 from $514. At last check, BLKis up 6.1% to trade at $478.24.BLK...Read More
The company pulled their quarterly and full-year outlookStitch Fix Inc (NASDAQ:SFIX) is up 23% to trade at $16.68, despite at least three analysts cutting their price targets today, including one to $11 from $15 from Piper Sandler. This surge came after SFIX became the latest company to pull its third quarter and full-year outlook due to the coronavirus outbreak. However, the e-tailer stated thei...Read More
Rio Tinto's 40-day moving average has had bearish implications in the past Copper prices have taken a backseat to gold amid the global COVID-19 pandemic. That hasn't stopped mining stockRio Tinto plc (ADR) (NYSE:RIO) however, from joining in on the broad-market rally. RIO is up 31% since its March 23 bottom of $35.35, but this rally has taken the copper name to a trendline that, if history is any...Read More
The Federal Reserve proposed an additional $2.3 worth of financial aidThe Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) is heading into the holiday weekend on a hot streak, up almost 400 points at midday. Today's rise comes after the Federal Reserve pumped another $2.3 trillion into businesses and revenue-pinched local governments. Fed Chair Jerome Powell, in a video press conference earlier, acknowledged...Read More
The U.S. Senate just warned its members against using Zoom as a video chat platform The U.S. Senate just advised its members against using popular video chat platform Zoom Video (NASDAQ:ZM) due to security concerns, asking them to find an alternative platform while working remotely. Zoom has addressed some of these security concerns by hiring Facebook's (FB) former security head Alex Stamos. Despi...Read More
Deutsche Bank cut its price target to $295 from $300Costco Wholesale Corp (NASDAQ:COST) is down 2% to trade at $299.76, after a price-target cut from Deutsche Bank to $295 from $300. The analyst stated that Costco's core same-store sales and U.S. comp sales for March fell short of their expectations, as stock-up strength faded and customers stayed home. COST has taken a number of volatile swings...Read More
Jefferies downgraded Anthem stock to "hold" from "buy," and cut its price target to $257After yesterday's pop for insurance providers, traders are pulling back from Anthem Inc (NYSE:ANTM) this morning. The stock is trading down 0.8% at $244.99 on a downgrade from Jefferies to "hold" from "buy." The analyst also cut its price target to $257 from $354, adding that the insurance stock is the most ex...Read More
The Fed announced a $2.3 trillion lending plan for the economyIn the wake of yesterday's outsized gains, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) futures fought their way into the black, after paring triple-digit losses from earlier this morning.Futures on the Nasdaq-100 Index (NDX) and S&P 500 Index (SPX) are sitting just below fair value, as investors unpack the 6.6 million rise in weekly jobless...Read More
APRIL 2020In a recent essay published at Project Syndicate, Harvard economics professor Kenneth Rogoff sets an ominous tone. Humanity, he says "is facing something akin to alien invasion" - an apt analogy, we thought. "With each passing day," he goes on, "the 2008 global financial crisis increasingly looks like a mere dry run for today's economic catastrophe. The short-term collapse in global ou...Read More