A person is placed on suicide watch when he or she displays certain self-destructive patterns and behaviors. Likewise, a market is placed on crash watch when it displays certain destructive patterns and behaviors. As I’…
Recently it seems that virtually everytime there’s a choice between a bearish count and a bullish count, the bullish count wins. This was once again the case yesterday, as the bulls did what they needed to in order to knockout the bear coun…
This is a short excerpt from this week’s Professional Edition Fed Report to be posted Tuesday. The ICI reports mutual fund inflows weekly with a…
The “lipstick on a pig” quote is pretty infamous after the 2008 U.S. presidential race and former Merrill Lynch analyst Henry Blodget’s enthusiastic recommendations on stocks that he privately derided. It looks like there is still lots of lipstick …
What’s this all about?….some provision in the Dodd-Frank Act that allows the SEC to take you before an Administrative Judge instead of a Federal District Judge….so you do NOT get full discovery? I could be wrong…but it sure sounds like “Hey…we …
The Treasury has not announced a CMB this week, which means that apparently the $40 billion in CMBs due to expire on Thursday will not…