The inverse relationship between the price of gold and the U.S. dollar is something that makes intellectual sense, but there is no shortage of historical data that suggest the two can trade in the same …
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Shares of Apple (AAPL) closed up 10% in 2016, gaining a little more than $60 billion in market capitalization in a year that saw their first year over year decline in earnings and sales since …
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Event: Oracle (ORCL) reports fiscal Q2 results tonight after the close. The options market is implying about a 4% one day post earnings move in either direction tomorrow, which is basically in line with its …
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Next week the Federal Reserve will raise short term interest rates for only the second time since June 2006, and the first time this year to a range of 50 to 75 basis points. Financial …
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Yesterday I discussed the sector rotation since the presidential election results on Nov 9th: I sincerely have no idea whether the rotation out of growth stocks, primarily Tech, and “yield-ers”… Consumer Staples, Telco and Utilities, …
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Since last Tuesday’s close, shares of Pepsi (PEP) are down nearly 7% in a straight line. Now a lot of things have gone down since then, but probably nothing more important for a company that …
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Remember the Taper Tantrum in 2013? Seems like a distant memory. But the U.S. Fed floated the trial balloon that they would start tapering bond purchases from their QE highs of about $85 billion a …
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It’s been my view for some time that on top of the very large list of risks to a fragile U.S. economic recovery (and increasingly vulnerable global financial markets) is the election of Donald Trump to be …
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The bond market is closed today for Columbus Day, but the TLT (iShares 20 year Treasury bond etf) is down a little less than 1%, suggesting that yields would be up a bit. The etf …
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Event: Pepsi (PEP) is scheduled to report its Q3 results Thursday morning prior to the open. The options market is implying about a 2%* one day post earnings move which is rich to the 4 …
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