2016-04-23 Thank you for your continued interest in the billcara.com blog. Please accept my apology for this very belated return to these pages. After passing a certain age, I decided to spend every available free hour enjoying life. I needed to. One of my concerns in the past about my
Morning Call [7:32am ET] Sometime between 12 and 1 in the noon hour yesterday, speculators made a decision they would buy the dips in the Goldminers, and before the two martini lunches were over on Wall Street, right at 2:00pm, there was a rush to buy call options in XLF
Morning Call [7:07am ET] How would you or I like to arrive at the office this morning knowing that the full weight of government regulators in the US, UK, Germany and Canada are going to come crashing down on your company
Morning Call [7:29am ET] Volume is definitely coming back into the market this week (see table below), and since prices have been on the rise, six sessions in a row now, but soaring since February 8, it is apparent that investors are now flat-out bullish and unconcerned (see VIX chart).
Morning Call [8:37am ET] Presently in capital markets there is a struggle underway between bonds and equities. The central banks of some countries, recognizing their economies are strengthening but so too is inflation, have begun to tighten. Interest rates are rising. The TED Spread will soon become the next focus
Morning Call [7:54am ET] As the S&P 1200 milestone was reached just past the hour of 1pm ET yesterday, the equity bulls started looking forward to 1225, leaving 1165 in the rear-view mirror. But some 15 minutes before the 4pm close, they could tell the traffic pattern had changed Mr.
Due to a time crunch, Bill has asked me to post this morning’s commentary. — Jack
This morning, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is holding above the much discussed 11,000 level and the S&P 500 has come close to breaking the 1200 barrier, but it is still struggling to do
Morning Call [7:52am ET] The big news (or rumor) today is that the Chinese monetary authorities may be about to float the Yuan (CNY). Traders are pondering whether that move, if true, would appreciate or depreciate the USD, Euro and Yen, and what impact that would have on interest rates,
Morning Call [8:12am ET] There is more than a little nervousness among international traders this morning. Overnight, Japan
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