Recent Commentaries tagged (economy)
What's Behind the Sinking Global Shipping...
By Michael Snyder If the global economy is not heading for a recession, then why is global shipping slowing down so dramatically? Many economists believe that measures of global shipping such as the Baltic Dry Index are leading economic indicators. In other words, they change... ***This is a pr...
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Tags: michael-snyder | guest-post | economy
Will The The REAL Economic Indicators Please...
By Karim Rahemtulla of Wall Street Daily I'm always on the lookout for new and different economic indicators that help decipher the direction of the market and the economy. Most of the common ones are lagging indicators. They show what has happened a month or two back. By the... ***This is a pre...
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Tags: guest-post | wsd | economy
The Quiet After the Storm
It's all quiet on the equity front. For the past month, the S&P 500 Index has experienced an unusually calm period of lower volatility. Bespoke Investment Group says the timeframe between December 28 and January 26 has been remarkably lacking in "1 percenters." The firm found that it's been more ...
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Tags: economy | markets
Sector Detector: Quack, quack…ducks are...
Courtesy of Scott Martindale, Sabrient Systems and Gradient Analytics The stock market is behaving extremely well from a technical perspective. And why not? The world seems stable enough to give investors the confidence to maintain a "risk-on" allocation. Sure, there is still plenty to worry abou...
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Tags: economy | greece | etfs
The Trend Trader For Futures Trading on...
The Trend Trader helps to identify the current trend status of your favorite futures markets. It not only helps us to stay on the right side of market direction, but also helps us avoid those without a trend. You can even use the grid as a spread matrix too - buying strength and selling weakness....
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The Trend Trader For Stock Trading on...
The Trend Trader helps to identify the current trend status of your favorite stocks. It not only helps us to stay on the right side of market direction, but also helps us avoid those without a trend. You can even use the grid as a spread matrix too - buying strength and selling weakness. Before y...
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Tags: stocks | nyse | new-york-stock-exchange | securities | market-capitalization | dow-jones | money | markets | investment | commentary | economy | market-news | economics | education | diversification | leverage | liquidity | speculation | hedge
The Trend Trader For ETF Trading on...
The Trend Trader helps to identify the current trend status of your favorite ETF markets. It not only helps us to stay on the right side of market direction, but also helps us avoid those without a trend. You can even use the grid as a spread matrix too - buying strength and selling weakness. Bef...
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Forget Financial Collapse, Get Ready for an...
By Michael Snyder The people out there that believe that the U.S. economy is experiencing a permanent recovery and that very bright days are ahead for us should have their heads examined. Unfortunately, what we are going through right now is simply just a period of "hopetimism" between...***This ...
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Tags: michael-snyder | guest-post | economy
Those Tantalizing Housing Market Bottom Calls
By Tim Iacono While the debate about whether the U.S. housing market has hit bottom is certainly heating up, hopefully it won't rise to the current temperature of the brouhaha over whether last Friday's labor market report was good, bad, indifferent, or just an outright fabrication by the...***Th...
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Tags: real-estate | guest-post | tim-iacono | economy
A View of U.S. Economy from Corporate Tax...
By Russ Winter There has been much ado about the US employment numbers both from surveys and the BLS. Most of this centers around bogus numbers from the BLS, but I prefer to jump to the quick, and look at withholding taxes. Really what difference does it make if there...***This is a preview. Plea...
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The Trend Trader For Futures Trading on...
The Trend Trader helps to identify the current trend status of your favorite futures markets. It not only helps us to stay on the right side of market direction, but also helps us avoid those without a trend. You can even use the grid as a spread matrix too - buying strength and selling weakness....
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The Trend Trader For Stock Trading on...
The Trend Trader helps to identify the current trend status of your favorite stocks. It not only helps us to stay on the right side of market direction, but also helps us avoid those without a trend. You can even use the grid as a spread matrix too - buying strength and selling weakness. Before y...
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The Trend Trader For ETF Trading on...
The Trend Trader helps to identify the current trend status of your favorite ETF markets. It not only helps us to stay on the right side of market direction, but also helps us avoid those without a trend. You can even use the grid as a spread matrix too - buying strength and selling weakness. Bef...
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Tumblin’ Tuesday – Keep on Rolling
Got to roll debt baby, call it the tumblin' default. That's the theme for the week as Greece gets yet another final deadline extension to come up with more and more concessions so they can borrow even more money that they will never be able to pay back. "Honey, got no money" is the line line tha...
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Tags: debt | economy
A Spark That Lit the Economy
Friday's employment data was the latest of a series of data showing marked improvement in the U.S. economy. ISI counted 18 straight weeks of stronger U.S. data including better vehicle sales, same store sales, homebuilding and manufacturing. Also, U.S. money supply is growing at a robust 10 perce...
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Tags: economy | markets
