Posts Tagged ‘ Backdrop ’

SPX Update: 12-year Study of Investor Sentiment Points to a Top

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January 13, 2012
SPX Update: 12-year Study of Investor Sentiment Points to a Top

The latest American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) sentiment survey numbers were released yesterday, and amazingly, were virtually unchanged from the week prior.  For the second week in a row, bearish investors remain at 17%,...
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On FX

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January 7, 2012
On FX

On October 25 I wrote about what, at the time, looked like an overvalued EURUSD (it was 1.3950). Zero Hedge had an article attributing the strength to ongoing capital repatriation by EU (primarily French) banks. My words: As long as there is Euro repa...
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A New Lost Decade is Leading to Revolution

Memo to the Super Rich, your high-paid lobbyists and your no-compromise political puppets whose sole mission is destroying the presidency: Yes, you are succeeding. You’re also killing the economy. ...
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Bleak backdrop

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October 2, 2011
Bleak backdrop

Steadily down for the early openers: Kiwis -1.8%, Aussies -2.1% and Nikkers -1.8%. Sth Korea closed. Some Aussie states having a holiday today so trading is thin with sectors red across the board. Energy -3.1% is heading the list followed by IT -2.7...
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Very real possibility

Quicky from FTAlaphavile - 1. - Ando | September 23 3:39pm it's still a long grinding stagnation story against a backdrop of global deflation, this is just one of the dramatic interludes 2. - SilverFox | September 23 3:41pm | @ando mayb...
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The 10 Crash Commandments

I been in this game for years, it made me a animal There's rules to this s**t, I wrote me a manual A step by step booklet for you to get your game on track, not your wig pushed back The Ten Crack Commandments, Notorious B.I.G. I don't try...
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Strong Commodity Prices: My Four Favorite Ways to Profit From the Rebound

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June 29, 2011
Strong Commodity Prices: My Four Favorite Ways to Profit From the Rebound

If you're like me, you've been invested in mining companies or oil producers the last couple of months because you expected a return to the strong commodity prices of early 2011.

But if that's the case, like me, you're hurting. Commodity prices are well below the high levels...
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ADP: US added 217K jobs in February….vs 180K expected

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March 2, 2011

Bloomberg link This (strong) report may be partly due to (weak) number in January, then blamed on the snowstorms. The employment gain has occurred against a backdrop of extremely heavy, continual, govt stimulus. Nonetheless, these data add some real...
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No Easy Way Out of the Dilemma

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February 18, 2011

No Easy Way Out Of The Dilemma It seems incredible that the Fed is creating the third bubble within 11 years, but that is what is underway. In the late 1990s the Fed kept the pedal on the gas and helped engender the dot-com bubble that collapsed wi...
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Russ Winter’s Actionable- Chimin? In

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April 28, 2010

Yesterday illustrated just what happens when stock gets sold on volume against a backdrop of a comatose market dominated by algos, and HFT.  We also see that once the volume pulls back it gets met with overnight futures manipulation, and more algo activity.   Looks like we may see that this morning.  However, besides over-reliance on algo...
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Actionable The Sugar High

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May 31, 2009

In addition to a housing overshoot, the sugar high market is going to have to deal with a commercial real estate financing crisis over the duration of 2009 when $178 billion in maturities come due. This is against the backdrop of a CMBS market that has not put forth even one new issue in...
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