The Fed: Houdini’s Famous Levitation Trick?

Keith Schneider | September 13, 2015

After mostly sideways action, US stocks ended the week on a positive note with the S & P 500 up .64%, although still down about -5% YTD and the leading index the NASDQ 100 up 2% for the week and …


Market Stress? The Fed has a free app for that!

Geoff Bysshe | September 6, 2015

Stress AND Perspective go hand in hand in life and markets. Most importantly you can’t deal with stress properly with out perspective.

How stressed out are the financial markets?

So with so much talk about whether the Fed will not …


Here’s the scariest news about China, and it’s not getting any press

Geoff Bysshe | August 30, 2015

It would be fun to spew the so many interesting statistics that describe last week’s historic stock market collapse and rebound, but most important point doesn’t require statistics to make it clear. That point is that the complexion of the …


Plunge Protection Team in the Hamptons

Keith Schneider | August 23, 2015

The nasty market selloff in global equity markets (-6.0 %) last week begs the question, will there be a repeat of the monster recovery rally that happened in October 2014, or is it different this time?  From a purely technical …


The China Syndrome

Keith Schneider | August 17, 2015

After a very shaky start to the week as markets reacted to the devaluation of the Chinese currency, US equity markets regained its footing and closed higher by the week’s end. It is unclear that radical measures by the Chinese …


Standoff

Keith Schneider | August 10, 2015

After a stellar performance in the prior week, US equities gave up its gains yet again putting the S&P 500 up about a 1% YTD, with the Dow Industrials down about 2%. If Trump was writing this column, he might …


Are You Nauseous Yet?

Keith Schneider | August 2, 2015

After the big selloff in the last days of June over the Greek crisis (remember that?) causing most global stock indexes to close down 2-3% or more, US stocks  recouped their losses in July with the exception of the Dow …


No Way Out

Keith Schneider | July 26, 2015

Stock Markets reversed this week, with the S &P 500 and QQQ each down over -2.1%. The big news was that Ray Dalio, head of Bridgewater, the world’s largest Hedge Fund threw in the towel on China. This is big …


The Grecian Formula

Keith Schneider | July 20, 2015

The global equities markets responded favorably to keeping Greece in the Euro. The S&P 500 had one of its strongest weeks recently, ending up over over 2% with the NASDQ 100 up over 5%, led by blowout earnings in Netflix …


Déjà vu all over again

Keith Schneider | July 12, 2015

Whether or not you are a Yogi Berra or Bill Murray fan, there is no mistaking that if it feels like we all have been here before. There is good reason. In case you might have forgotten, let me jog …