Real-time Monetary Inflation (per annum): 8.5%Profit-taking in the New York Mercantile Exchange's August crude oil contract led to a lower close Tuesday, but the overnight session turned higher and... read more »
Um, “worse than expected”? I guess that sums it up today as Consumer Confidence data was terrible.
Stock price declines today were milder than expected given the news. But, silly me,... read more »
I thought this deliberate end-of-month/quarter shenanigans were against the rules right? Oh, they don’t enforce this type of activity—never have, never will.
Anyway, with volume... read more »
While I have not mentioned it much on the blog, one of my favorite sectors to invest in is the energy sector. When it comes to energy ETFs, the 800 pound gorilla is (NYSE: XLE), the energy select... read more »
Some investors in global and emerging market funds are starting to become nervous that such markets have risen too far, too fast (see Asian Investor article). After a nice run since early March,... read more »
Real-time Monetary Inflation (per annum): 8.5% Two weeks ago, we pondered the odds of further gasoline price hikes (see "Playing The One-Armed Bandit Gas Pump"). In a nutshell, the odds... read more »
They are not ETFs. They are not ETNs. They are MacroShares, and after today, they are gone. Bye-bye MacroShares. Back on May 15, MacroMarkets announced that today, June 25, would be the last... read more »
Real-time Monetary Inflation (per annum): 8.3% By the way traders took crude oil down $1.23 a barrel, or 1.8%, this week, you'd think there was too much oil sloshing about. Analysts, though, were... read more »
The story is front and center: GS is reported (later denied) able to pay huge bonuses to employees this year. (Guardian story is here.) How can this happen especially now? TARP money to trade with... read more »
I thought it might be entertaining at least but the show was a bust-a bore-a ramped, camped and dumped deal. Bull's got excited early with (ho hum) "better than expected" employment data... read more »
