December 28, 2014
Weekly Market Outlook
By Keith Schneider
Last week we highlighted how Putin might maneuver on the global chessboard and cozy up to Turkey to prop up the failing Russian economy and check the west. He made some key moves this week, cancelling a strategic pipeline project …
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December 22, 2014
Weekly Market Outlook
By Keith Schneider
Since the year is just about up and the performance numbers are just about finished, barring an unusual end of year reversal of historic proportions, all US asset classes have put in a stellar performance. What is most unusual however …
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December 15, 2014
Weekly Market Outlook
By Keith Schneider
Equity markets finally succumbed this week (SPY down 3.6%) to tanking oil prices and crashing junk debt pressured by possible defaults in the oil frack patch. This week’s drop was one of the worst weekly performance in years. One might …
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November 17, 2014
Weekly Market Outlook
By Keith Schneider
Putin left this week’s G-20 meeting being held in Australia early, but not before a snuggle session with an uneasy Koala Bear. Historically speaking, snuggle sessions and G-20 meetings have had little impact on the markets even when measured by …
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November 9, 2014
Weekly Market Outlook
By Keith Schneider
The recent nuclear melt up of the US Equities markets right on the heels of what was looking like a meltdown to the core, finally had the markets mainly in digestion mode over the past several days.
Last week, the …
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November 3, 2014
Weekly Market Outlook
By Keith Schneider
This week Fed Reserve chairperson Yellen managed to end quantitative easing without causing a financial meltdown. Just two weeks ago the market was a in free fall, but by the close of the month have more than managed to keep …
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October 27, 2014
Weekly Market Outlook
By Keith Schneider
After the swift drop over of almost 10% in the S&P 500 over the past several weeks, the market came back with a vengeance. Initially, the selloff brought the bears out of the woods and shook off even diehard bulls …
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October 19, 2014
Weekly Market Outlook
By Keith Schneider
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Is life and finance imitating art? Amid the expanding Ebola pandemic, getting treatment for Ebola in Africa is very difficult, however getting people to the morgue is easy. In fact, there are reports …
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October 12, 2014
Weekly Market Outlook
By Keith Schneider
This week’s price action in the equity markets is enough to rekindle fond memories of the 1987 crash when the stock market dropped a bit, like 22 standard deviations. Mathematically speaking that is about 20 times the normal daily trading …
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September 29, 2014
Weekly Market Outlook
By Keith Schneider
After this week’s debut of the Alibaba IPO and the subsequent roller coaster ride that equities endured which included the 250 plus point one day slide on Thursday, one might conclude that Alibaba is named appropriately; they just forgot to …
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