[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets After a higher opening, the markets remained steadfast and unwavering in making this session a positive one after the past few of days of floundering. Despite this effort, the S&P 500 still remains a few points lower than it started the month. Solid earnings by American Express stabilized the financial sector for the …
A Dying Dead-Cat-Bounce
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets An encouraging morning rally ran out of steam mid-day with the major indexes heading south and closing below their unchanged lines. The exception was the Nasdaq, which managed to cling to a gain of +0.23%. No macro data points were released today, but the weakness in the banking sector, which I addressed yesterday, …
US Dollar And Bond Yields Slammed
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets Just yesterday, I talked about how bond yields have been slipping and sliding despite the Fed’s efforts of hiking rates in December and March. The 10-year yield has dropped from 2.62% to 2.26% over the past 4 weeks. That trend accelerated today as that yield got slammed even more ending up at 2.18% …
Bounce-Back Monday
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets To me, today’s trading session had the look of a relief rally after last week’s sell-off, and the fact that the war mongering with N. Korea did not turn into anything more but jawboning over the Holiday weekend. The major indexes gained solidly with the S&P 500 trying to make up the losses …
One Man’s Opinion: Just A Quick Reminder: The Federal Reserve Is Almost Insolvent
By Sovereign Man September 10, 2008 was one of the last “normal” days in the world of banking and finance. That afternoon, the US Federal Reserve published its routine, weekly balance sheet report, indicating that the central bank had total assets worth around $925 billion. Just a few days later, Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, kicking off the most severe …
ETFs On The Cutline – Updated Through 04/13/2017
Below please find the latest High Volume ETFs Cutline report, which shows how far above or below their respective long-term trend lines (39 week SMA) my currently tracked ETFs are positioned. This report covers the HV ETF Master List from Thursday’s StatSheet and includes 366 High Volume ETFs ETFs, defined as those with an average daily volume of more than …