Author: Kevin Klombies

by Kevin Klombies, Senior Analyst, TraderPlanet.com In a perfect world the S&P 500 Index has already passed through its momentum bottom (October 10th) and its correction lows (October 27th) and is ten days to two weeks away...

by Kevin Klombies, Senior Analyst, TraderPlanet.com We are going to introduce a new argument today. We show a comparison between the CRB Index and the Canadian dollar (CAD) futures from the end of 1979 through to the present...

by Kevin Klombies, Senior Analyst, TraderPlanet.comSHAOXING, China — Government statistics show that 67,000 factories were shuttered in China in the first half of the year, said Cao Jianhai, an industrial economics...

by Kevin Klombies, Senior Analyst, TraderPlanet.comTo understand what something is at times it makes sense to at least rule out what it is not. In other words after sharp gains of close to 7% yesterday in both the energy and...

by Kevin Klombies, Senior Analyst, TraderPlanet.comNov. 3 (Bloomberg) — U.S. auto sales plummeted 32 percent in October to the lowest monthly total since January 1991, led by General Motors Corp.’s 45 percent slide,...

by Kevin Klombies, Senior Analyst, TraderPlanet.comThe slope of the yield curve tends to provide incentive for money to move away from risk (especially when long-term yields are lower than short-term yields) and back towards...

by Kevin Klombies, Senior Analyst, TraderPlanet.comThe forex markets remain in a state of chaos with the Reserve Bank of Australian intervening on behalf of the Aussie dollar for the third day in a row and the Bank of Japan...

by Kevin Klombies, Senior Analyst, TraderPlanet.comOne of the more interesting twists that the markets throw at investors revolves around the impact from changes in interest rates. We argued last week, for example, that...

by Kevin Klombies, Senior Analyst, TraderPlanet.comWe have argued from time to time over the past number of years that the markets have been running six month or two quarter trends. Through the first half of 2006, 2007, and 2008...