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Now Is The Time – Fear Rises As Financial Markets All Over The Planet Start To Crash

Now Is The Time – Fear Rises As Financial Markets All Over The Planet Start To Crash

Can you feel the panic in the air? CNN Money’s Fear & Greed Index measures the amount of fear in the financial world on a scale from 0 to 100. The closer it is to zero, the higher the level of fear. Last Monday, the index was sitting at a reading of 36. As I write this […]
Why Greece May Want To Reconsider Reopening Its Stock Market

Why Greece May Want To Reconsider Reopening Its Stock Market

As The Greek government presses The ECB for ‘permission’ to reopen its stock market, it may want to reconsider. GREK, the Greek Stock Index ETF trading in US markets, was down over 3% yesterday and has plunged to its lowest since the peak of the crisis in 2012 (near its lowest since 1989). Just as in China, The […]
Staying Positive Amid The Summer Doldrums

Staying Positive Amid The Summer Doldrums

The market this year has been split between areas of tremendous strength and sectors of depleted optimism. Nowhere is this better illustrated than the divergence between soaring growth stocks and underwhelming value names. When you add to that the mess of commodity prices and lackluster action in bonds, the picture becomes very murky indeed. Most diversified portfolios […]
Blame The Fed For The Commodities Slump

Blame The Fed For The Commodities Slump

When we left you at the end of last week the world was falling apart. As you know, the economy functions on electronic credit… not cold, hard cash. Without the banks pumping more credit into the system – by way of loans – it sags. The Dow fell 163 points – or about 1% – on Friday. […]
Risk Off – Financial Review

Risk Off – Financial Review

Podcast: Play in new window | Play in new window (Duration: 13:16 — 6.1MB) DOW – 127 = 17,440 SPX – 12 = 2067 NAS – 48 = 5039 10 YR YLD – .04 = 2.23% OIL – .75 = 47.39 GOLD – 5.00 = 1095.50 SILV – .20 = 14.64 Chinese stocks fell sharply today. The Shanghai Composite […]
Eros International – All Time High

Eros International – All Time High

The Chart of the Day belongs to Eros International (NYSE:EROS). I found the Indians language film stock by using Barchart to sort today’s All Time High List for the stocks having the highest Weighted Alpha, then used the Flipchart feature to review the charts. Since the Trend Spotter signaled a buy in 5/15 the stock gained 100.28%. Eros International Plc co-produces, […]
S&P Valuation Behind The Curve

S&P Valuation Behind The Curve

Apparently, no one sent the market memo to the S&P 500 until last week when investors woke up to the prospect of “stretched” valuations after months of warnings from US Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen. Last Friday’s substantial losses come on the heels of global equity losses to which US benchmarks are not immune, but […]
The Secular Advisor – July 27, 2015

The Secular Advisor – July 27, 2015

Economy – Additions & Updates Additions – inflation expectations, World trade, China electricity consumption & manufacturing Updates – initial jobless claims, housing, sentiment, manufacturing  Asset Allocation – Additions & Updates Additions – US only allocations, currency trends Updates – none Economic Summary: Initial Jobless Claims – falling Inflation Expectations –  on target Housing – existing home sales: expanding, new home sales: falling Sentiment […]
Baidu Inc Shares Fall After Earnings Miss

Baidu Inc Shares Fall After Earnings Miss

Baidu Inc (ADR) (NASDAQ:BIDU) released its latest quarterly earnings report after closing bell tonight, posting adjusted earnings of RMB11.19 per ADS or $1.81 per share on RMB16.58 billion ($2.673 billion) in revenue, a 38.8% year over year increase. Analysts had been looking for earnings of RMB10.58 or $1.88 per share on revenue of RMB16.57 billion for […]
The Most Important Market Trendline Since 2009 Was Just Broken

The Most Important Market Trendline Since 2009 Was Just Broken

The trend is your friend… until it ends… Charts: Bloomberg