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Natural Gas Futures: Further Weakness Likely

Natural Gas Futures: Further Weakness Likely

Considering advanced prints from CME Group for natural gas futures markets, open interest remained choppy and went up by around 19.5K contracts on Thursday. In the same direction, volume resumed the uptrend and increased by around 32.4K contracts.  Natural Gas: Next on the downside comes $2.600Prices of natural gas seem to have entered a consolidative phase in […]
Bitcoin Is Up 133% YTD As ETF Hype Grows, Price Hits 18-Month High

Bitcoin Is Up 133% YTD As ETF Hype Grows, Price Hits 18-Month High

Image Source: Pexels  Bitcoin jumped above $38,000 on Dec. 1 for the first time in 18 months, driven by the latest spot BTC ETF developments.Bitcoin (BTC) ended November on a high note, recording its best monthly close in over 18 months. The cryptocurrency surged above $38,000 amid several positive developments regarding the spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds […]
EUR/USD Forecast: Getting Stretched

EUR/USD Forecast: Getting Stretched

In the end, the overall sentiment leans towards a somewhat unfavorable turn of events. The EUR/USD initially made an attempt to rally during Thursday’s trading session, only to make an about-face and exhibit signs of negativity. This shift in sentiment may be attributed to the preceding prolonged upward trajectory witnessed in the market, necessitating a retracement of sorts. […]
Bitcoin Jumped To $3880 And Ethereum Is Back To $2100

Bitcoin Jumped To $3880 And Ethereum Is Back To $2100

Bitcoin chart analysisYesterday, the bitcoin price was consolidating in the $37,600-$38,200 range. Early this morning, bitcoin started a bullish consolidation and climbed to $38839. At that level, we formed a new price high for the previous year and a half. We encounter resistance for sa and see a pullback to the $38600 level. We expect […]
A Decomposition Of Per Unit Price Inflation In Nonfinancial Corporate Sector, Through 2023Q3

A Decomposition Of Per Unit Price Inflation In Nonfinancial Corporate Sector, Through 2023Q3

For nonfinancial corporate business sector, using price per unit real gross value added.Figure 1: Quarter-on-quarter inflation of price of gross value added (black line), contribution of unit labor costs (blue bar), of non-labor unit costs (brown), and of profits (green). NBER defined recession dates shaded gray. Source: BEA 2023Q3 2nd release, Table 1.15, NBER, and author’s […]
Crude Oil Forecast: Markets Continues To Look To Upside

Crude Oil Forecast: Markets Continues To Look To Upside

For OPEC, the challenge lies in achieving a delicate balance—striving to sell crude oil while maintaining a reasonable price point to meet their budgetary needs. The crude oil markets experienced a noteworthy uptick during Thursday’s trading session, coinciding with the pivotal OPEC meeting. WTI Crude OilThe West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Crude Oil market exhibited bullish momentum on Thursday, signaling […]
Looking For Goldman Sachs Mutual Funds? Grab These 3 Now

Looking For Goldman Sachs Mutual Funds? Grab These 3 Now

Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) is a world-renowned company that provides investment management, portfolio design and advisory services to individual and institutional investors worldwide since 1988. Its strategies cover asset classes, industries and geographies. As of Dec 31, 2022, GSAM had $2 trillion in assets under supervision.The fund has more than 2,000 professionals across 31 […]
ETF Battles: S&P 500 Dividend Growth Vs. Quality And Yield – A Surprising Twist

ETF Battles: S&P 500 Dividend Growth Vs. Quality And Yield – A Surprising Twist

Image Source: Pixabay  In this episode of ETF Battles, I referee an audience-requested contest between S&P 500 dividend ETFs from Global X (QDIV) vs. ProShares (NOBL). Which ETF wins this dividend bash?Program judges David Dierking at TheStreet and Tony Dong at ETF Central examine this dividend ETF duel to see which ETF is the better choice.Each ETF […]
BRN Is Trying To Stabilize Above $80/Bbl

BRN Is Trying To Stabilize Above $80/Bbl

BRN is trying to stabilize above the $80/bbl psychological level following the confusion sparked by the OPEC+ meeting on Wednesday. Despite the OPEC+ announcement of it’s new 900k bbl/day supply cuts, investors have remained uncertain on whether these reductions will be fully taking place as they are being introduced on a “voluntary” basis. Previously implemented […]
Recovery On German Bund Can Lift EURUSD Higher

Recovery On German Bund Can Lift EURUSD Higher

German Bund is falling sharply and impulsively for the last three years without overlaps, so its a bearish trend, but five waves down and  potential wedge shape and divergence on RSI may suggest that trend is coming to an end and that market can see a change in trend. We can actually already see price […]