Will Government Intervention Help?
The bond market is still suffering
Energies Watch From A Distance
Energy futures heated up and ended mostly to the upside as the implications of Sunday’s attack settled
What The Market Is Weighting
Stocks staged a recovery after diving at the open, but remained relativelyunchanged at mid-day.The market continues to weigh the progress made in the first wave of attackson Afghanistan along with increased features of retaliatory terrorist attacks onU.S. soil. Many had speculated that that attacks
Oil Retreats On Relief
Todays Mid-day Futures Alert was written by Eddie Kwong. The fact that the U.S. attack was confined to bombing and took place only on Afghani soil served to temper fears of a disruption of the flow of oil from the Middle East. In a reassuring statement, OPEC stated that production would b
A Nice Comeback
Stocks are staging a nice comeback after diving early in the session on weak employment and earnings news.The Dow pared a nearly triple-digit loss and is up 50 at 9110.The shaky start began after the Labor Department reported the largest monthly drop in payrolls in 10 years. Despite expectations of
This Pattern Keeps Working
Astute traders
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Not Holding Back
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Dell Rings The Bell
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PowerRating) sprang out of the gates on the opening bell, following up yesterdays expansion bar with a 10% gap opening. The strong opening from one of the biggest players in a beleaguered
They’re Still Talking About It
There will not be an emergency meeting
They Went The Full Nine Yards
Nine cuts in nine months. The Federal Reserve showed it is willing to go the full nine yards with monetary policy in order to get the economy back on its feet. Yesterday, the Fed cut rates .50% to 2.5% in its fastest and most forceful easing of monetary policy in nearly ten years. Th
Bonds Boiling
Debt futures are rallying for the ninth consecutive session just one day after the Federal Reserve cut overnight interest rates to their lowest level in 39 years. Yesterdays cut in the federal funds target rate to 2.5% risks sparking inflation, a phenomenon that has occurred every
The Best Since April
Skeptics have pooh-poohed it