Bloomberg is out with an article detailing the largest election day-inauguration day decline ever. The story implies that this is somehow relevant to today’s stock market. The reality is that [ … ]
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CHART OF THE DAY: RBS.L
While the U.S. markets are closed the UK is not. This should be a sleepless night for holder of RBS. The LSE counterpart hit a bump in the road today [ … ]
WHAT’S WRONG WITH A SWEDISH MODEL?
It seems the U.S. government had a pretty good blueprint for the ensuing credit crisis and decided not to implement it. Who ever went wrong with Swedish models? In the [ … ]
BECOMING A BIT MORE CONSTRUCTIVE
The S&P 500 is down a swift 9.85% since my warning on the 6th that the market was getting too complacent. Earnings headwinds and bank concerns have resulted in very [ … ]
CREDIT INDICATORS IMPROVING
By just about any metric, we’ve seen a drastic improvement in the credit crisis indicators. The corporate bond market has found a bid in recent weeks, the TED spread is [ … ]
JANUARY EFFECT? NO THANKS.
The January Effect (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/j/januaryeffect.asp) is a widely followed theory. It is the basic idea that so goes January so goes the year. The January effect, however, has not proven to [ … ]
MAULDIN ON 2009
As I have said here before, Mauldin is one of the best. If you don’t read his stuff you should. You’ll find an excerpt below and the link to the [ … ]
A SHOT ACROSS THE BOW
Yesterday was what I like to refer to as a “shot across the bow” type of day. A warning shot, if you will…. The market has become very complacent despite [ … ]
MAULDIN ON 2009
John Mauldin has an excellent new report out regarding 2009. If you don’t follow him he’s a must read. His website can be found at www.2000wave.com As I have in [ … ]