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 »
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 »
A few weeks ago, I wrote the post "Volume Surge in (NYSE: UNG) Natural Gas" which became a popular post and a few readers have asked me to follow-up on UNG and comment on the Triangle... 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 »
According to the recent TIM (Trade Ideas Monitor) report and the TIM Sentiment Index (TSI), institutional brokers became less bullish over the last five trading days, trending towards neutrality by... 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 »
Doh!!! Tomorrow is another Treasury auction and to prepare our fearless Fed is buying while our Treasury is selling. How does that work? Two separate sets of books. The former... read more »
The only positive from today is Monday's have proven to be good buying days of late. But that's the only thing. Clearly some complacency ("the bottom's in" and etc) combined with light... read more »
That's sort of the way I see the buying-tentative. No one seems to be throwing everything they've got at markets. Days like today have been common. Investors start strongly but then take a... read more »
