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Equities led by oil and travel surged the most in about six weeks after promising early results for an experimental vaccine. Commenting about crude, China announced that its...

19 May, 2020

Equities led by oil advanced for a second day. Hopes are rising on progress for the treatment of the disease, the development of a vaccine, and the...

06 May, 2020

How long will it take before most begin questioning the government’s draconian action of shutting down the economy and society?  Is the economic/societal nuclear carpet bombing worth it?   The headlines

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01 April, 2020

At the time of this writing, S & P 500 futures hit limit down for the second time in a week. Last night’s mega sized neutron Federal Reserve bombing of the markets had little impact. All are attempting to digest the ceaseless ...

16 March, 2020

Equities were relatively quiet as all mulled how the spread of coronavirus beyond China will affect earnings. Nominal selling, focused in the technologies, commenced late morning sending averages down between 0.5% and 0.75%. ...

21 February, 2020

All Democratic candidates are making similar promises. Government picks the winners and losers, pulling support away from entrepreneurship. All support massive social, environmental and deficit spending, negative interest rates, quantitative easing and massive tax increases. ...

20 February, 2020

Chinese shares ended its brutal selloff today ending about 1.50% higher. Monday 90% of securities listed on the Chinese exchanges dropped the maximum amount allowed in one day. One trader commented “this was ...

04 February, 2020

I think there is little disagreement that three of the four mega capitalized technology companies that posted profits last week exceeded expectation. One pundit sounded like Ross Perot when he exclaimed “there is a giant sucking sound” ...

03 February, 2020

Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari made comments that’s validated many of yesterday’s remarks stating hedge funds and “other investment vehicles” are the primary reasons for the illiquidity in the repo market. Kashkari further opined one of the greatest risks is ...

22 January, 2020

An argument can be made the proverbial buy on rumor and sell on fact phenomena could occur following the agreement of any trade deal. Yesterday the “New NAFTA” was agreed upon and the markets had little reaction. Can we make the assumption that ...

11 December, 2019