Last night on CNBC’s Fast Money they asked me to take a quick look at the VIX (CBOE Volatility Index) trading at 2016 low, briefly below 11 for the first time since Aug 5th, 2015: …
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Facebook’s (FB) $358 billion market cap (just a tad from its recent all time highs) has catapulted the social media company to now be one of the top 10 most valuable companies in the world, …
Continue readingMarket forecasts are like belly buttons, everybody’s got one, innies and outies. And we know that equity markets spend most of their time rising in value. So if you are in the business of selling financial products …
Continue readingYesterday’s prepared testimony by Fed Chair Janet Yellen created a lil controversy, and a mild bit of equity selling pressure for the following remarks: However, signs of risk-taking have increased in some asset classes. Equity valuations of …
Continue readingCNBC The Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported after the bell Thursday that it provided $200 million of liquidity to the Swiss National Bank, via its swap lines for foreign central banks, a facility …
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