Author: Kevin Klombies

Well… it seems like a reasonable time for some dollar strength. The markets have been trading off of the relative outperformance of energy prices for so long that it is almost inconceivable to many that this kind of trend...

We might well be comparing apples to orangutans today but… then, again, we have presented stranger comparisons in the past.The argument is that gold prices are in the process of peaking because silver prices have already...

The rally in the Greek stock market following the news of a merger between somewhat shaky banks helped propel stock prices higher yesterday. Risk on.We are going to start things out today in a rather strange direction. It has-...

As best as we can tell the dollar’s trend is essentially flat. It could quite easily tilt to the upside in the near term or, perhaps, swing back to the down side but for now the trend is no better and no worse than neutral.The...

U.S. weekly jobless claims moved somewhat higher with the 4-week moving average lifting from 402.5K to  407.5K. This was likely enough to cool off the recovering trend for the markets. One might argue that the trend is swinging...

This has most certainly been an interesting week. Toss in an unexpectedly strong (i.e. a lower number) U.S. weekly jobless claims report today… and it might get even a bit more colorful. Of course we have no knowledge of...

We are going to start things off today with the same two chart comparisons that we used in yesterday’s issue. This will serve as the foundation for the arguments that we hope to make on the following page.The premise is that the...

Once again it is Thursday and Thursday means the weekly U.S. jobless claims report. We continue to believe that the markets are trending off of this number so lower claims would tend to be cyclically positive while higher claims...

We are going to play a little defense today now that the markets are moving away from the recent state of crisis. The premise for today’s argument represents an amalgam of three separate thoughts as we cobble together a view of...