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Markets Sing When Fed Officials on the Same Sheet of Music
Last Thursday night, Fed Chair Yellen and former Fed Chairs Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan and Paul Volcker took part in a panel titled, “When the Federal Reserve Speaks… the World Listens.” Fed Chair Yellen said that some slack remains in the U.S. labor market. She said that the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is not […]
Taking the Sheen off the Oil Rally
From the latest headlines within the energy sector, there is a well-defined resistance level for WTI crude at $40 a barrel. Last week, U.S. crude stockpiles rose by 2.3 million barrels to 534.8 million barrels, the seventh week at record highs, data from the U.S. government’s Energy Information Administration showed. The recent price recovery was […]
Hawkish Fed Chatter Sends Dollar Higher, Oil Lower
The ink was still wet on the March 16 post-Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) policy notes when the U.S. central bank held the line on interest rates while substantially scaling back its expectations for further moves ahead. At the December FOMC meeting, the Fed had projected four rate hikes in 2016 but the U.S. central […]
A Big Swing in Sentiment Stokes Broad-Based Rally
Two Friday’s ago, Treasuries got hammered after the release of February’s employment report, which showed that nonfarm payrolls were growing above expectations despite global economic issues. But the move lower was met with strong buyer interest and the trend toward lower yields resumed, which in turn kept the rally for equities in place. Stocks ended […]
When Bad News Is Still Good News
The European Central Bank (ECB) provided global markets this past week with a big lift by announcing a slew of fiscal stimulus measures targeting weak growth in the broader European economy. Faced with a regional economy stubbornly resistant to revival, the European Central Bank borrowed a page from Star Trek and went where no central […]
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Banking Free Money from Covered Calls
While at the World MoneyShow in Orlando, Florida, the workshop sessions that I conducted with the highest attendance were those that dealt with the business of selling covered call options. One standing-room only session was centered around my latest advisory service, Quick Income Trader, which focuses on selling calls on high-powered growth stocks like NVIDIA […]
Improving Data Brings Back Buyers
Just when investors were wondering what would be the catalyst to save the market from swooning to new lows, some good old-fashioned economic data crossed the tape, trumping all the headlines surrounding central bank stimulus, oil prices and junk bond defaults. As the week unfolded, the market was fed a steady diet of improving economic […]
Buying Blue Chip Dividends on Any Dips
The three-day short covering rally that provided some near-term relief saw most defensive sectors and stocks take a breather, affording some pin action in the popular technology, consumer discretionary, financials and health care companies. But true to form, the rally in oil prices stalled out early Friday morning and so did the global equity rally. […]
Treasury Yields Tank On Global Recession Fears
This past week saw some not-so-reassuring events unfold within the bond market. For a brief moment, the U.S. 10-year Treasury Note traded with a yield of only 1.57%, a level not seen since late 2012. A confluence of large unknowns enveloped investor sentiment that was punctuated when WTI crude took out the recent lows and […]
The Race to Zero Interest Rates May Have Started
Market participants commonly describe the current trend for global interest rates as remaining “lower for longer.” Following the rapid and seemingly coordinated moves to flex fiscal stimulus across the developed world, bold actions by the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan and the People’s Bank of China showed the power and direction of this […]
