QUESTION: Greetings Elections were always the same dates, why is it that we’ve only started discussing them in the last week? Regards, JCL ANSWER: It is not just the USA this time, it is France & Germany plus the referendum vote on Britain … →
We apologize for the site has gone down for brief periods. We are working on that issue. The site has grown huge both from an access perspective as well as data. We outsourced to revamp the site completely so … →
As we close 2015 and begin a new year, the markets generally closed flat to neutral with a warning that as we approach the political year from hell being 2017, this is by no means going to be a walk … →
January is named after the Roman god Janus who is pictured with two faces which we still celebrate on New Year’s Eve whereby with one looking at the past and the other looks ahead at the year to come. “Auld Lang … →
We wish all of our readers a Happy, Healthy and Peaceful New Year. Tomorrow, we will post the year-end review looking ahead at the New Year – 2016.
It was very dull day to finish 2015 but not really surprising given the performance we have seen for the year. Shanghai has finished the year up 9.4% but it was the smaller Shenzhen Composite with a YTD gain of … →
Iraq warns that it will take military action against Turkey if they do not withdraw their troops from their territory. This would get complicated since Turkey is a member of NATO. So who is on whose side? Is Turkey just abusing … →
NASDAQ and NYSE are acting really insane cancelling stop loss orders and GTC (good until cancelled). These type of orders it appears will be discretionary with some brokers, but the exchanges will not accept them. The problem becomes the … →
The banks of Hungary and Portugal are in trouble. Larger buffers are needed and the economy has not yet moved into a full crisis mode. That is yet to come.
The Holiday Schedule is below. The closing for our models will be TODAY and for the most part this will be a full normal day. We are hovering around our year-end numbers in many markets from gold and the … →
