Posts Tagged ‘ Last Tuesday ’

Bank Stress Tests and the All-Clear-to-Rally Signal

March 16, 2012

Earlier this week I repeated that I've been cautiously bullish (too cautious, I also said) since October.

I also told you I was optimistic that all the major indexes would break through the important psychological, headline, and large-round-number resistance levels they started flirting with two weeks...
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Bulls In Clover While TBAC Is Smoking Dope As Usual

By Lee Adler

February 2, 2012

Bulls In Clover While TBAC Is Smoking Dope As Usual

The Treasury market panic continued this week, with yields heading for new lows, thanks partly to a return of central banks to the table at a modest level, but mostly due to a ratcheting up of public buying. Bond fund inflows hit a record last week. It’s sheer panic. Bedlam. The panic atmosphere has...
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Looming U.S. Government Shutdown Sign of Future Financial Crisis

By Kerri Shannon

April 6, 2011

Looming U.S. Government Shutdown Sign of Future Financial Crisis

Washington for months has been tangled in a messy political debate over the 2011 federal budget. The newest deadline to reach a budget deal - April 8 - is just a couple of days away.

The phrase "government shutdown" is being used with increasing frequency.

Temporary funding measures have...
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Con Con Surprise, No Surprise

By Lee Adler

February 23, 2010

It’s odd the way the players pay attention to some numbers and not others. There’s no reason why the market should have been surprised by the ConCon. ABC News does a comprehensive consumer confidence survey weekly that always foreshadows the ConCon. Last Tuesday ABC had this to say:
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