Author: Philip Davis

It is not much of a Wonderful Wednesday as questions over the Fed’s buy back of Treasury bonds have started to mount. The news has overshadowed better than expected home sales and durable orders, as well as, strong earnings from...

Can copper keep above $3.80? They call it “Doctor Copper” because copper pricing is a pretty good indicator of economic health.  It’s more of a demand metal than gold or silver and hard to fake and there aren’t any...

It is one of the first days where earnings have not been able to pop up the market at least to start the day. A number of disappointments from world markets and the American market’s earnings have left things looking down to...

The question isn’t how low can we go, but rather, how high can the Dollar bounce? With our manipulated joke of a currency, the knee-jerk response is “not very” but I was at the Economist’s Buttonwood Gathering...

This was an interesting event!   On May 17th 1792, twenty-four stock brokers met under a buttonwood tree outside 68 Wall Street and agreed to set up the New York Stock and Exchange board. The tree was a symbol of Wall Street,...

Good Monday to all! I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend. We are ready to move into another week of earnings, and we are starting out this Monday in a few positions still. We are currently holding positions in Trina Solar (TSL)...

Last Friday, Geithner’s message was “Do as I say, not as I do.” This weekend, Timmy took a big doo doo on the rest of the World as he pressed fellow Finance Ministers into (in theory) setting mechanisms to address...