Global Markets Boiling Over

Geoff Bysshe | April 12, 2015




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Choppy Action

Keith Schneider | March 30, 2015




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Was That Patient or Patience?

Keith Schneider | March 23, 2015

The equity markets, gold, treasuries and the euro all roared last Wednesday after Yellen removed the key word “patient” from the Fed plans. This was of course the exact opposite of what Mr. Market expected. For weeks the market was …


Magic Trick

Keith Schneider | March 16, 2015

A soaring dollar, collapsing energy prices and virtually all commodities, took a toll on equities markets this week. Amid big volatility, indexes swung back and forth with two key US equity markets ending the week in warning phases. Last week …


Climate Change

Keith Schneider | March 8, 2015

The markets ended the week with a huge sucking sound, one that sounded like a lot of equity pouring down into the ever increasing mysterious Siberian craters. Of course that equity just followed what was already sinking into that hole-- …


Old Rules, or How to Retain an 86% Approval Rating

Keith Schneider | March 1, 2015

At the close on Friday, as the US Stock market closed down marginally for the week, just a tad off new all-time highs, news came out of Moscow that the charismatic and vocal opposition leader, Boris Nemstov, was gunned down …


Seeing is Believing

Keith Schneider | February 23, 2015

Last week, after several days of pause and digestion at new highs, equity markets mostly roared after an initial nasty swoon Friday morning.  The Greeks summoned their Gods and they performed a miracle. They brought forth a reprieve from bankruptcy …


Bad Week for Pessimists

Keith Schneider | February 17, 2015

The sideways to downward biased market action in US Equities that has persisted for the last 6 months was finally halted this week with US equities closing on all-time highs. The risk off plays of misanthropes and of those inclined …


Era Checking

Keith Schneider | February 9, 2015

This week the broadest measure of the US stock market, the S&P 500 index ended basically flat for the year, reversing the brief five week era of negative bias with an up 3%  week.  Noteworthy, was the announcement by the …


Fuhgeddaboudit

Keith Schneider | February 2, 2015

Initially, right after the Greek elections the markets surprisingly shrugged off the results that brought in an anti-austerity party and ignored the much higher odds that Greece will leave the EU and default on a huge debt load. However, by …