Category Archive: Finance
E The Daily Shot And Data – March 18, 2016
The US dollar has experienced 2 consecutive days of 1% declines – something we haven’t seen in years. The declining dollar now drives risk assets such as equities, commodities and emerging market currencies and is in effect a form of monetary easing. Source: Investing.com Dollar-yen dipped below 111, a support level the currency pair is […]
5 Momentum Stocks That Rallied Over 10% In The Past Month
Major benchmarks posted significant gains over the past one month led by bullish factors like a strong rally in crude and encouraging economic data. Coming to figures, the Dow, S&P 500 and tech-laden Nasdaq Composite Index gained a respective 6.5%, 6.4% and 6.4%. Moreover, the Dow moved north for the fifth straight session […]
Market Talk – March 18, 2016
The strong Yen continues to weigh on the Nikkei even though other core Asian Indices performed. Minutes from the Jan BOJ meeting were released which showed that additional stimulus were discussed, including the possible expansion of QE. However, having opened unchanged and after a long week the Nikkei closed down -1.25% on the day and 2.5% lower […]
Economics Can’t Be Tested In A Vacuum
The economy is one of the most complex systems that exists in the world. Perhaps even the most complex system. I like to think of the monetary system like a car. There are very specific institutional structures that act as certain parts of this system and in a vacuum that car or system will do […]
Precious Metals Report – March 18, 2016
Ira Epstein leads us through the day’s precious metal highlights. (Video length 00:06:26)
Oculus Innovative Sciences Announces Pricing Of $3.4 Million Underwritten Public Offering
PETALUMA, Calif., March 18, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Oculus Innovative Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: Common Stock – OCLS, Warrants – OCLSW) today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 3,400,000 units, consisting of 3,400,000 shares of common stock, and warrants to purchase an aggregate of 850,000 shares of common stock, at an offering price […]
SP 500 And NDX Futures Daily Charts – Option Expiration
The downside from this current US election season, besides being faced with some more repugnant choices than usual, is that the blatant hypocrisy and corruption of our ruling elite is exposed for all to see. I wonder if this will be an historic moment when both of the leading candidates are facing prosecution. Trump for […]
6 Stocks Leading The Dow Back To Green In 2016
The Dow turned positive in the year-to-date frame to erase losses incurred since the start of 2016 after five consecutive sessions of gains. After hitting a two-year low on Feb 11, the blue-chip index gained 9.4%, mostly led by a strong rally in oil prices and a gradual reduction in recession fears following encouraging economic […]
Well That Didn’t Work
The Bank of Japan and European Central Bank eased recently, which is to say they stepped up their bond buying and/or pushed interest rates further into negative territory. These kinds of things are proxies for currency devaluation in the sense that money printing and lower interest rates generally cause the offending country’s currency to be […]
