$74 billion in T-bill paydowns so far in April have been enough to cover net new Treasury coupon issuance with $40 billion left over for other games. It hasn’t helped the bond market. Treasuries continue to be liquidated, and short term T-bill rates co…
I’ve read some grumbling and hand-wringing with respect to the real estate fund symbol IYR, whose analog I’ve mentioned a number of times. It’s certainly been stubborn about weakening, but I wanted to provide this perspective on w…
Again, he gets paid $5 million a year for this. And in spite of it, even today, people are coming on bended knee to get his counsel. (And pay to have access to it). In fairness, though, all the “pros” on Wall Street are equally inept. O…
After more than a decade of uninterrupted growth, Netflix suffered its first subscriber drop in the first three months of 2022. The world’s largest video streaming service ended the quarter with 221.64 million paid memberships, down 200,000 from the pr…
As of yesterday, the markets had spent the month in a steady progression of lower lows and lower highs. The most recent “lower high” to watch is represented here with an arrow. At the absolute peak of Tuesday’s rally, we got a sin…
According to CB Insights, there were 1,068 unicorn companies in the world as of March 30, 2022. In 2021 alone, 519 of these privately held startups valued at $1 billion or more were “born”. The global unicorn herd passed the 1,000-mark at the beginning…
I don’t want to scare my fellow bears, but this the pattern on the ES S&P 24 hour futures chart is still bullish… Potentially. That is, unless and until it posts an hourly close below 4434. Until then, for day traders and other short term orient…
After having had a taste of remote working through the pandemic, employees are now yearning for even greater flexibility when it comes to their working hours. According to a report by Adobe, 51 percent of enterprise employees would like to have complet…
The market in recent days has been, for me, uninspiring. I’m far more engaged with my novel-writing than I am these exasperating financial markets, but the show must go on – – – so I went through my entire watch list of futu…
Nothing unravels quite as dramatically as systems which are presumed to be rock-solid and forever. Here’s the default Bullish case for stocks and the economy: let’s call it Plan Zero. 1. The economy and equities can grow forever (a.k.a. infinite grow…