Author: Scott Hoffman

There wasn’t any substantial news overnight, and there’s no economic releases of importance due today-we’re mostly looking at some reversals of yesterday’s moves. June S&P:Momentum sell short day; the...

I came into today looking for directional moves in many of the futures markets. We had a lot of volatility early last week, then some consolidation in many of the markets late last week. I believe that volatility is cyclical; so...

Michael Lewis has written some great books on finance related topics (Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, et al), and is a writer for Bloomberg. He wrote a great article about the AIG bonus kerfuffle the other day; I got around to...

Stocks are higher over optimism about the forthcoming plan from the US Treasury Department to deal with “toxic assets”. We’ve waited a long time for this, let’s hope it’s good. Existing home sales...

I’m not in the office today-I’m at home working on some projects, so I haven’t been following the markets as closely today.In spite of today being a witching day, I thought it might be kind of quiet today.This...

There are no reports out this morning; there is a Cattle on Feed out after the close.No big news overnight, there were stories about bearish demand for agricultural and industrial commodities, but nothing major. June...

Commodity prices are sharply higher. Traders are viewing the Fed’s decision to buy Treasuries as inflationary and a reason buy own hard assets.For the time being, this is being taken as bullish for equities. At some point...