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Barron’s – Bright Outlook for the Economy and Stocks The members of Barron’s 2018 Roundtable arrived at our annual gathering in a jolly mood. And why not? U.S. stocks returned an impressive 20% last year, and are off to...
The Wall Street Journal – Five Potential Risks to the Oil Rally As sentiment on oil has turned positive, hedge funds and other speculative investors have amassed a record number of long positions—bullish bets on oil. If sentiment sours,...
OPEN Commitment of Traders Analysis For January 12, 2018 On January 12, 2018, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) released the Commitments of Traders (CoT) statistics for Tuesday, January 9, 2018. Click on the open button...
Barron’s – This Bond Bear Market Doesn’t Look Too Fierce Investors may be rattled, but falling prices probably won’t stop them from buying new Treasuries. The bond bear market has finally arrived, according to Bill Gross. The...
The Wall Street Journal – Stock Market Roared During Donald Trump’s First Year, Boosted by Earnings and Tax Cut U.S. stock markets soared to records during President Donald Trump’s first year in office, benefiting from a mix of...
The Financial Times – Gavyn Davies: Ultra low market volatility – friend or foe? A pre-eminent question for 2018 is whether these low volatility levels are reflecting excessive complacency (and possibly extreme leverage) among investors. A...
The New York Times – What’s $27 Billion to Wall Street? An Alarming Drop in Revenue Twenty-seven billion dollars has gone missing on Wall Street. For more than a decade, the world’s top investment banks practically minted money from the...
The Financial Times – Chris Giles: 2018: the year of fake economic data Unreliable statistics are giving official number crunchers a bad name f 2017 was the year of fake news, 2018 is shaping up to be one of fake data. And just as fake news...
Bloomberg.com – The Stock Market Never Goes Down Anymore S&P is at widest level to its 200-day moving average since ’13 S&P trades at 3.4 times its book value, the most since 2002 he New Year’s rally has pushed the S&P 500...
Volatility and inflation are finally offering the greatest potential to upside surprise heading into the New Year.
Conditions are favorable for widening by U.S. TIPS breakevens given hefty economic data improvements and seasonal tailwinds to start 2018.