We only rolled out the awesome new Layers feature late last night, and I’m having a ball with it. As I mentioned, the one feature I really want to add is the ability to Save charts, so rest assured, that’s coming. Let me offer an exampl…
So when the gambler ends up juggling lit sticks of dynamite, he’s confident nothing bad can happen because nothing bad has ever happened, no matter how much risk he takes on.
UK inflation (CPI) hit 5.5 percent in January – the highest since 1992 when it stood at 7.1 percent and was on the verge of crashing down to just 2.2 percent a few months later. The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics also put the in…
As international travel came to a near complete standstill in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the aviation industry suffered what it described as “the worst year in history for air travel demand”. According to the International Air Transport Associa…
The strong push last week has turned the short to intermediate term outlook bullish. The numbers now portend …
Average Mortgage Size in the United States increased to 453 Thousand USD in February 11 from 446.90 Thousand USD in the previous week. Average Mortgage Size in the United States averaged 211.82 Thousand USD from 1990 until 2022, reaching an all time hi…
After seeing its bookings cut by more than 40 percent due to the pandemic in 2020, Airbnb bounced back remarkably well in 2021. Despite Covid’s persistent dampening effect on international travel, the short-term rental market leader reported a 56-perce…
4690-97. That’s the critical zone on the ES S&P futures that the bears need to hold, or else lose the plot. If they hold, then we get a pullback to around 4445 and we’ll see from there which way they want to go.
But if they break 4490, then w…
It’s big picture time! Here are nine important futures markets with many decades of data:
The graph below shows the stock market (in blue, by way of the SPY) and the junk bond market (by way of JNK, although you just as easily look at SJNK, HYG, EMB, or a variety of other debt-sensitive instruments). My view is that credit will lead the…