Author: Kevin Klombies

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Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) — Treasuries posted their biggest monthly gain since Ronald Reagan was in the White House, as President-elect Barack Obama said the U.S. faces a “time of great trial” and the economy...

In yesterday’s issue we showed the two charts below and commented that we now had two very good reasons to be somewhat less positive on the long end of the bond market. We were careful NOT to write that we were negative-...

We have been arguing in favor of higher long-term Treasury prices for the past while so we thought we should show two charts that now argue that bond prices have, by and large, done what they were supposed to do. We are not...

We should start off by noting that we are REALLY big adherents to the notion or concept of above or below ‘trend’. Our conviction is that any time a market, sector, or security starts to push either higher or lower...

We argued (and argued) that the U.S. dollar was going to resolve higher and have been using a level of around 93 for the U.S. Dollar Index as our first target point. Then we argued that the markets are driven by four...

by Kevin Klombies, Senior Analyst, TraderPlanet.comAs of the close of trading yesterday the Fed funds futures were trading at levels that suggested that following next month’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting the...

by Kevin Klombies, Senior Analyst, TraderPlanet.comThe Asian crisis in 1998 helped push Japanese short-term interest rates down close to 0%. With the exception of a brief foray higher into 2000 Japan held a zero interest rate...

by Kevin Klombies, Senior Analyst, TraderPlanet.com Our lives would most certainly be easier (read: less stressful) if we were only concentrating on one market. If all we had to do is argue whether the S&P 500 Index, for...

by Kevin Klombies, Senior Analyst, TraderPlanet.comIn yesterday’s issue we started off by commenting that in a perfect world the S&P 500 Index made its momentum bottom on October 10th and its first test of the lows-...