The Composite Liquidity Indicator remains near a record extreme, and that’s scary. Here’s what you need to know. Click here to download the report (Subscribers…
New York | This week we announce the publication of The IRA Bank Book for Q2 2019, a publication of The Institutional Risk Analyst. In this issue we ask some important questions, including:** Why is Capital One Financial (COF) a better comp for Citigroup (C) than JPMorganChase (JPM)? ** Why are loss rates for real estate exposures of US banks moving back into positive territory? ** Will funding costs for banks continue to rise even as long-term Treasury yields fall dramatically? ** And just when
In technical analysis one always searches for actionable patterns. The biggest mistake people make when applying TA is they see potential patterns and treat them like they’re valid. Now mind you there’s […]
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Herds get spooked and run. That’s the crash scenario in a nutshell.We have all been trained by a decade of central bank saves to expect any stock market swoon will soon be reversed by central bank sweet talk and/or rate cuts. As a result of such e…
The 10-12 month cycle began its “second wind rally” last week. 10-12 month cycle momentum has thrust to a new high. Our last SPY option…
Unemployment at 50 year lows, S&P 500 near all time human history highs and rate cuts are all the rage. Markets were screaming rate cuts and the Fed dutifully complied, first Bullard, […]
Powell, Draghi, Kuroda and the like fully appreciate that a decade of ultra-loose monetary policies have fueled dangerous Bubbles. But they’ve thrown in the towel; a fight they are afraid to confront.
In today’s BLS jobs report, Nonfarm Payrolls came out at a gain of just 75,000. That’s on a seasonally adjusted month to month basis. The…