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Charts of the Week Topics Covered This Week Include: Is The Crowd Too Bearish? S&P 500 Drawdown Are U.S. Stocks Wildly Undervalued Given Earnings Estimates? Revisiting Size-Dependent Value And Growth Relative Valuations Revisiting S&P 500 & 3-Mth Treasury Bill Comparative Returns Equities Still Correlated Positively To Higher Short-Term Yields Measuring Gold’s Decline Manufacturing Jobs –… Continue...
The Upside Bias Of Quadruple Witching Remains In The Flash-Crash World Audio (1:12) The upside bias of quadruple-witching expirations continues.
On Friday the ECRI reported a -6.9% annualized growth rate for its Weekly Leading Index (WLI) in the week ending June 18, 2010. As this marks the third week in a row of a declining growth rate, the index is garnering much attention. <Click on...
Europe Has Short-Circuited Default/Devaluation Adjustment Mechanisms Audio Stresses within the European Monetary Union will be absorbed by steeper coupon yield curves at higher rates than would exist otherwise.
Inflation Watch Update The attached tables update inflation rates through April 2010. We also update our comments on OER as we believe it remains the dominant inflation story.
Late last month we noted that stock volume was soaring. We said: Since April 7 the S&P 500 is nearly unchanged. An uptick in volume in a market that moved from a strong uptrend to no trend is what technicians call a “distribution...
Goldman, Greece And Government Audio link to conference call Webcast A transcript of the April 29, 2010 conference call.
Comment On January 15, 2010, the Federal Reserve added the following announcement to its usual weekly release of banking statistics (H.8 data): Supplementary Information Regarding Banks’ Adoption of FAS 166 and 167 The effects of banks’...
Today (March 16) the FOMC meets. It is the first regularly scheduled one-day meeting since September 16, 2008, two days after Lehman filed for bankruptcy and the day the Federal Reserve approved an $80 billion loan to AIG. (the FOMC has conducted...
The Nikkei-NASDAQ Analog Enters Make-or-Break Zone The analog between the Nikkei 225 and the NASDAQ Composite is entering a critical zone.
Bloomberg.com – Fed in Talks With Money Market Funds to Help Drain $1 Trillion The Federal Reserve is in talks with money-market mutual funds on agreements to help drain as much as $1 trillion from the financial system as policy makers prepare...
Bond Returns In The Last High-Inflation Era A look back at history offers a guide for the inevitable outburst of inflation following excessive monetary stimulus.