The Wall Street Examiner | Be prepared. Stay ahead of the herd.

Largest Central Banks Now Hold Over 15 Trillion in...

I could not help noticing that China’s imports from Japan fell 16.2pc in December....

Nowhere To Go But Sideways

The blowoff ended yesterday morning and SPX cash has drifted down irregularly, hitting the...

The Mighty Ben

Treasury yields reached the top of the recent range and appeared headed for a...

Pushing Non-Official Holders of Local-Issued European Debt into Subordination

I spotted some interesting commentary on the maturing March 2012 Greek bonds. After buying at 40-45...

Today's Markets

Nowhere To Go But Sideways

By Lee Adler

January 27, 2012

The blowoff ended yesterday morning and SPX cash has drifted down irregularly, hitting the...
Read More »

SPX Update: Using Elliott Wave Theory to Choose Entries and Stop Losses

By Pretzel Logic

January 27, 2012

Yesterday the market formed a bearish reversal bar: it gapped higher at the open,...
Read More »

Questionable quiescence

By The Daily Stool

January 26, 2012

Early openers lurch into Friday: Kiwis +0.4%, Aussies +0.7%, Nikkers flat and Sth Korea...
Read More »

Bulls finally pause,bears terrified to go short

By The Daily Stool

January 26, 2012

Could be an historic turn at these levels,but until the SPX cracks 1285-1290 I...
Read More »

7-Year Note Treasury Auction Results

By Treasury Auction Results

January 26, 2012

CUSIP: 912828SD3Term and Type: 7-Year NoteSeries: G-2019Interest Rate: 1.250%High Yield: 1.359%Price: $99.274515Allotted at High:...
Read More »

Treasury announces 13-Week Bill

By Treasury Offering Announcements

January 26, 2012

CUSIP: 9127953N9Term and Type: 13-Week BillOffering Amount: $31,000,000,000Auction Date: 01/30/2012Issue Date: 02/02/2012Maturity Date: 05/03/2012PDF...
Read More »

Treasury announces 26-Week Bill

By Treasury Offering Announcements

January 26, 2012

CUSIP: 9127955Y3Term and Type: 26-Week BillOffering Amount: $29,000,000,000Auction Date: 01/30/2012Issue Date: 02/02/2012Maturity Date: 08/02/2012PDF...
Read More »

Market All Revved Up With Places To Go

By Lee Adler

January 26, 2012

After hitting yesterday’s late 2 day cycle projection of 1327 the rally marched on...
Read More »

Economic and Financial

Between Various Rocks and Various Hard Places

By Charles Hugh Smith

January 27, 2012

The U.S. and European economies are firmly between various rocks and various hard places. Having...
Read More »

Deutche Bank’s Ackermann on the LTRO

By Bruce Krasting

January 27, 2012

Note: I'm experimenting with video. Bear with me.
Read More »

Largest Central Banks Now Hold Over 15 Trillion in Fictitious Capital

By Russ Winter

January 27, 2012

I could not help noticing that China’s imports from Japan fell 16.2pc in December....
Read More »

Pushing Non-Official Holders of Local-Issued European Debt into Subordination

By Russ Winter

January 26, 2012

I spotted some interesting commentary on the maturing March 2012 Greek bonds. After buying at 40-45...
Read More »

Bernanke Goes All In

By Bruce Krasting

January 26, 2012

Well, we got an inflation target from the Fed. Basically, thinking at the Fed...
Read More »

The New American Divide

By Charles Hugh Smith

January 25, 2012

The widening divide between the Upper Caste and everyone below is not just of...
Read More »

Fed Action Contains Seeds of Its Own Destruction

By Lee Adler

January 25, 2012

Russ Winter of Winter (Economic and Market) Watch and the Wall Street Examiner’s Lee...
Read More »

FOMC Statement and Watch Live Dog and Pony Show Here at 2:15

By Lee Adler

January 25, 2012

For immediate release Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in December suggests...
Read More »

Economic and Financial

What Have We Learned in the Past 13 Years?

We have learned nothing since 1999 except the Central State and Central Bank will intervene in the market to bend price and risk to serve the Status Quo. If we learn nothing, then we deserve to lose. This is not a popular concept in America a...

Want a Raise? Vote on it! The Swiss do.

Switzerland is vote crazy. It has a referendum on most issues. There is a vote coming up that I’m sure will pass. This time around, the Swiss are going to vote themselves a big salary increase. As a result, Switzerland will have the highest minimum w...

Tomorrow Is A Big Day – Why Fed Should Not Act

Tomorrow is a big day, with the FOMC announcement and the Fed revealing what it wants you to think about what it thinks it’s going to think it wants you to think. Or something like that. This Fed “tranparency” thing has been covered to death in the mainstream media. I think it’s another utter...

Stick it to the Local Issued Bond Holders

ZeroHedge (ZH) has a long winded but remarkable post on the issue of subordination and the motivation of hedge fund holders of non-local bonds to stick up (called blocking) the process and, in fact, go the legal route on debt defaults. ZH cites historical examples of how successful this approach has been. ZH believes these actors will...

Bond Market Tiers Mean Tears, Stocks On A Tear

Stocks look bullish and bonds bearish. Russ Winter of Winter (Economic and Market) Watch, ML-Implode.com’s Aaron Krowne, and the Wall Street Examiner’s Lee Adler discuss whether this split can continue, and for how long. Russ expounds on the two tier hornet’s nest developing in the bond market, and why it should result in higher...

The World Needs 600 Million New Jobs

By Stephanie KeltonThe International Labor Office (ILO) has just released asobering report on the growing crisis in worldlabor markets. We began the year with 1.1billion people – one out of every three people in the global laborforce&...