April 2, 2012 by Dan • Commentary

MorningWord: 4/2/12: Here on a fancy Street called Wall we have many odd habits, none sillier than going on and on about things like gdp’s, pmi’s and ism’s.  The fumiest thing about those little 3 letter zingers …

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March 30, 2012 by Dan • Commentary

MorningWord: 3/30/12: Today’s opening of U.S. markets (S&P futures up about 50bps) feels like a fairly fitting end to what was a near historic quarter.  Sentiment changed on a dime in Jan, with the change …

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March 29, 2012 by Dan • Commentary

MorningWord: 3/29/12: I think it is fairly safe to say that decent Q1 earnings are baked into the cake with the SPX at current levels, the real question for any near term continuation of the …

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January 13, 2012 by CC • Commentary

Here’s the important parts of the S&P release. In bold is the issue we’ve been incessantly talking about here at Risk Reversal for the past few months.  (via WSJ) We have lowered the long-term ratings …

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January 2, 2012 by Dan • Commentary

With the changing of the calendar, CC and I wanted to take the opportunity to thank all of you who have been with us for the past months and welcome all of you that are …

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July 21, 2011 by Dan • Commentary

MS is trading up almost 5% on this morning on earnings results that topped analyst expectations (albeit dramatically lowered ones)……The reversal off of 5 2week lows by BAC and GS tuesday and the strong relative performance by WFC …

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July 6, 2011 by CC • Commentary

Dan hinted a little about this in his earlier post on the Nasdaq Composite‘s tendency to overshoot, and I wanted to follow up on it a little bit. One of the reasons you won’t see …

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