Tag: federal reserve
Gold (GLD): Will Central Banks Be Able To Move The Metal?
Gold continues to act as if it expects a hike as soon as this month. The FOMC meets on the 16th-17th. On Friday, post-August...
Why The Fed Won’t (Shouldn’t) Raise Rates In 2015
If the Federal Reserve raises rates this year, it will be one of the worst policy mistakes made be any Central Banker (in my...
Gold Prices Flat After Friday Jobs Report; Fed Up Next
The August Jobs report released earlier today seemed likely to move both commodities and equities. But after the report came in at an unspectacular...
Stocks Feel The Pain Of A Slowing Global Economy
Anyone that has been reading my weekly commentaries for the last several weeks and months shouldn’t be surprised by the recent market decline. Despite...
Stocks Behaving Like Latter Stage Of Market Cycles
In last week’s market commentary, I mentioned that currency wars and deflationary headwinds are curtailing growth. And this makes it hard to buy stocks...
Is More Quantitative Easing (QE) On The Way For The U.S.?
Two different central bankers from two different continents made news yesterday – both giving us a nod and a wink that at best low...
Why Interest Rates Are Going Nowhere Fast
There has been a great deal of discussion regarding whether the Fed is going to continue down the path of ZIRP or if...
Will The Jobs Report Send Stocks Into Price Discovery Mode?
One of my favorite posts from this year was a post that I wrote in late June before I was on Sirius-XM's "Behind The Markets"...
Markets Tame As The Fed Serves The Porridge Just Right
The market likes some level of "certainty"... especially when it feels like the market has been lacking it. Enter the Fed today. As expected, the...
Why Higher Interest Rates Are A Good Thing For Stocks
Will they or won’t they? The Federal Reserve has their decision on interest rates this afternoon and there is no way they raise rates...
