My focus in the last week has been internally debating what to do with my many long June options. I have expressed a variety of views through June premium (the largest position in my personal …
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Next week’s economic calendar is chock full of goodies. The big ones are the pair of ISM numbers, plus we’ll get our weekly jobless claims, and that all leads up to the All Important™ jobs …
Continue readingReuters (Reuters) – Asian shares and the euro edged up on Monday after the leaders of France and Germany pledged to unveil a comprehensive plan to solve the euro zone’s two-year-old sovereign debt crisis by …
Continue readingMorningWord: 10/7/11: Well, we had kind of a constructive week so far even if it started out looking like we may crash…..Tuesday’s volatility was saved by rhetoric in Europe that was picked up by …
Continue readingMorningWord: 10/3/11: Last week was one of those weeks that if you blinked you might not have noticed that we ended the week at about the same spot that we started it……but there was a …
Continue readingThis morning’s 8:30am release of the the much anticipated jobs data including the unemployment rate should help tip the scales as we move closer to the Sept. 20 FOMC meeting and the market’s expectations for …
Continue readingThe SPX has rallied a little more than 7% off of Friday mornings lows, capping the worst month in the index since May 2010, which included the “flash crash”. As I said in this space …
Continue readingDshort The S&P 500 closed up 0.49% after slipping briefly into the red during the last ninety minutes of trading. August 2011 is now on the books as the worst S&P 500 monthly performance since …
Continue readingWSJ 9:55 a.m. ET all the time: Come and get your final University of Michigan consumer sentiment index for June. It’s expected to fall because consumers feel lousy. 10:00 a.m.: Now that Chicago PMI has …
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