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Hot Options Report For End Of Day – Monday, Jan. 29

Hot Options Report For End Of Day – Monday, Jan. 29

Top tickers for end of the day: BUD, AAPL, CMCSA, AMD, WFT.
Is The Shine Coming Back To Silver?

Is The Shine Coming Back To Silver?

Since gold and silver are “joined at the hip,” much of what is written about gold and the dollar in the parallel Gold Market update applies equally to silver, so here we will look mainly at the points that need to be made separately for silver. The first point that we will look at is that silver’s […]
Weekly Gasoline Price Update: Regular And Premium Up Four Cents

Weekly Gasoline Price Update: Regular And Premium Up Four Cents

It’s time again for our weekly gasoline update based on data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). The price of Regular and Premium were up four cents from last week. According to GasBuddy.com, California has the highest average price for Regular at $3.28 and Santa Barbara, CA is the most expensive city, averaging $3.42. South Carolina […]
More Treasuries Coming This Year With Less Buyers

More Treasuries Coming This Year With Less Buyers

Marc Chandler, Head Of Global Currency Strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman joins me while on a trip in Europe to recap what to look forward to this week in terms of data and news. We discuss the upcoming treasury announcement outlining the total treasury issues this year which is expected to be nearly double from […]
Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – The Wild Ones – Into The Void

Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – The Wild Ones – Into The Void

Stocks were slumping today, taking a break from their recent parabolic rally higher, with a record setting lack of meaningful corrections. The precipitant was word that AAPL is cutting back on its manufacturing forecasts for the iPhone X. The equity market is frothy to say the least. It could still keep melting up higher. But […]
GDX Broke Above Its October 2017 High

GDX Broke Above Its October 2017 High

SPX Monitoring purposes; Long on 1/23/18 & 2839.13. Monitoring purposes GOLD: Neutral. Long-Term Trend monitor purposes: Neutral. Momentum weakens first before it goes high in the market. In August and November 2017, there were minor highs, the RSI started making lower highs as SPY made minor new highs before a pullback started. The situation going […]
Nasdaq Volatility At Multi Year Highs

Nasdaq Volatility At Multi Year Highs

Video length: 00:14:37 Stocks take a hit today as interest rates continue to climb higher. In tonight’s important video newsletter you get a full analysis of the volatility in this market. Many key stocks are reporting quarterly earnings this week and the implied volatility is at levels not seen since 2016. Watch this video newsletter […]
Globally Synchronized What?

Globally Synchronized What?

In one of those rare turns, the term “globally synchronized growth” actually means what the words do. It is economic growth that for the first time in ten years has all the major economies of the world participating in it. It’s the kind of big idea that seems like a big thing we all should […]
Tax Reform: The Devil’s In The Details

Tax Reform: The Devil’s In The Details

Over the years, one of my “beats” has been an occasional publication called the Legislative Defense Alert. The idea was to warn readers of legislation that might threaten their wealth, so they could prepare. There was only one problem: After the 2010 midterm elections, nothing ever happened on Capitol Hill. There was plenty of light, of […]
Two Measures Of Inflation And Fed Policy – Monday, Jan. 29

Two Measures Of Inflation And Fed Policy – Monday, Jan. 29

Note: The charts below have been updated with the latest Personal Consumption Expenditures price index from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The annualized rate of change is calculated to two decimal places for more precision in the side-by-side comparison with the Consumer Price Index. The BEA’s Personal Consumption Expenditures Chain-type Price Index for December, released this morning, shows […]