Margin Debt Vaults to An All-Time High in April
April continued 2013's idyllic period for risk-taking everywhere. A back-of-the-napkin survey shows US stocks went up with the S&P 500 (SPX) clearing +1.85%, while...
Turnaround Tuesday: Is the Market Vulnerable to a Trend Reversal?
Considering that the Dow Jones Industrial Average has risen 18 times in a row on Tuesdays, investors probably shouldn't be hitching their wagons to...
Stock Market Report and Economic Update: April 2013
By Greg Naylor April was an uneventful month in terms of economic news, allowing the stock market and bond market to continue...
Tightening Fed Policy: Is A Smooth Exit A Sure Thing?
What factor is most responsible for the recovery Fed policy has - by most accounts - stimulated in financial (housing and labor also?) markets...
Interview With Estimize Founder Leigh Drogen
For the past 12 months, I have been part of Estimize, a community of 13,000+ professional and non-professional equity analysts who are contributing their...
Heads Up: It’s NFP Friday!
By Andrew Kassen Welcome to Non-Farm Payroll (NFP; a.k.a. "the monthly unemployment data) Friday! Excluding Central Bank rate decisions and the occasional errant twitter...
Brexit: What a British Exit from the EU Looks Like
By Alex Salomon Are you familiar with Brixit? Not yet? It might become the next catchy buzzword for yet another European Union drama. Brexit,...
Doc Copper: The Personal Physician to King Dollar
By Andrew Kassen Copper is often held up when analysts and commentators are having an "intermarket analysis" moment to bolster whatever argument they're...
Stock Market Report and Economic Update: March 2013
By Greg Naylor March was an eventful month, as the Euro zone dealt with another crisis, this time in Cyprus, and the sequestration went...
Reviving The Yen Carry Trade
By Andrew Kassen "The Yen Carry Trade" - whatever your tenure in and familiarity with financial markets, it's a litmus phrase evoking a...
