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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Last week the stock market tried to move higher, but by the end of the week it had done little more than trade in a range. The lack of direction, however, has now setup many of the charts in such …
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 …
What Does The S&P 500's Tightest Range In 50 Years Mean For Stocks and Your Portfolio?
February 22, 2026
