It seems everyone is moving to yield. Am wondering if this is the safer route for prognosticors or if they really believe one will do better with a high yield portfolio than a growth portfolio. Using ETFs here is a yield oriented lazy portfolio There …
The employment number was better than suggested yesterday. Still, over two million are out of work and the average work week has dropped to 33.3 hours. Employers seem to be cutting hours prior to dismissing employee. This would indicate that higher unemployment is coming. One …
Early Asian trading is modestly positive. Chevron has said it will have a rough fourth quarter, hard to believe. But that will make news in the morning. Citi’s mortgage agreement with Congress is intriguing and will also be front page stuff. This could be really …
The market was almost even as Obama began his speech. This could not have been a bigger downer. He raised the specter of double digit unemployment, multi-year recession and trillion dollar deficit—–all for years, not just this year. Nothing new, really with this talk or …
We have gone from overbought to oversold. But the market doesn’t read charts. Wal-Mart was the crusher in this morning’s news. Last year’s darling reported ugly revenues so the stock is down 10% in pre-market. 10%! You cannot ignore the horrendous earnings from retailers. There …
The market went down hard. Yesterday I exclaimed at how strong the Transportation and Russell 2000 indexes were. Well, today they were down 4% and 3.4% respectively. Importantly, the S&P stopped going down right at 902. Nine hundred is viewed by technicians as being the …
In the face of pretty disturbing economic indicators and corporate pratfalls as well as generally overbought conditions one would expect this correction. The preannounced revenue and earnings shortfall at Intel is especially troublesome. Chip sales are a leading indicator, their use has become omnipresent. The …
Have an appointment this morning so this will be short. I should have bought an inverse ETF yesterday. This will hedge my rather active buying of the last three weeks. As the market declines these inverse ETF rise. Its not a panacea due to portfolio …
Asia is up about 2% as it opens, much to almost everyone’s amazement. Could this be yet another harbinger of a higher US market? See ya in twelve hours, or so, and we will know.
A surprisingly good show. The Dow was up only 62, less than 1% but the Russell and Transports advanced 2%+. The better showing of the mid-caps (Russell) is encouraging. The mid-caps will probably be the sweet spot if we are able to keep this going. …