June 8, 2014
Weekly Market Outlook
By Keith Schneider
Not to be outdone by his US counterpart, namely the Federal Reserve, Mario Draghi lowered interest rates yet again to .15% to spur sluggish growth and fight off deflation.
Getting people to spend money when they are not in the …
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June 1, 2014
Weekly Market Outlook
By Keith Schneider
Newly retired former CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer agreed to purchase the LA Clippers for a measly $2.35 billion dollars, arguably one of the worst performing NBA basketball teams, historically speaking. However, the team has improved recently and home games …
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May 27, 2014
Weekly Market Outlook
By Keith Schneider
Signaling a change to the fed policy of letting the markets know its intentions is quite a big tell in and of itself.
The Maestro, former Fed chairmen Allen Greenspan, was notorious for obscuring what he was thinking and came …
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May 11, 2014
Weekly Market Outlook
By Keith Schneider
In one of the most difficult markets to trade, highlighted by the disparity between small caps, high flying momentum stocks and big caps, the question remains... what forces have been pulling those stocks down? Will those forces persist and end …
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April 28, 2014
Weekly Market Outlook
By Keith Schneider
If you are looking for logic from the current market action across various asset classes you might have to wait till the Cows come home or Cattle prices retreat. Many traditional inter-market relationships have simply broken down.
For example, Cattle …
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April 14, 2014
Weekly Market Outlook
By Keith Schneider
This week, women have had a smorgasbord of negativity tossed at them. It ranged from Hillary Clinton dodging a shoe toss while giving a speech and ended with the literal tossing out of Kathleen Sibelius, Secretary of the United States …
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April 6, 2014
Weekly Market Outlook
By Keith Schneider
Considering all the hupala about Michael Lewis’s new book , Flash Boys, I would like to weigh in on the subject matter. Having been an independent floor trader on all the NY Commodities exchanges and having develped several high end …
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March 31, 2014
Weekly Market Outlook
By Keith Schneider
The big news this week is that Putin called Obama to “resolve” the crises is Crimea, actually, make that the Ukraine and Moldova, as Crimea problem has been solved, with a slight re-arrangement of the geo-political chess board. Rumor has …
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March 17, 2014
Weekly Market Outlook
By Keith Schneider
This week, out here in the high desert of Santa Fe, New Mexico amid the downdraft in the market, I got chill down my spine. I wasn’t sure whether it was an actual misdirected Artic Blast or something nostalgic, like …
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March 10, 2014
Weekly Market Outlook
By Keith Schneider
“Canon to the right of them
Canon to the left of them
Canon in front of them
Volley’d and thundered”
Excerpt from Charge of the Light Brigade
By Lord Tennyson-1855
The crisis in Crimea and the Ukraine is the problem …
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