The Bonddad Blog

Go and do something else aside from economics and market watching. I'll be back tomorrow afternoon.

SPY: -.01% QQQQ: +.05% IWN: +.48% Translation: money flowed into the small cap market today. Everybody else was scratching their heads. Loo...

First a disclaimer. The BLS has revised this number a great deal. Recently they reported they added an additional 800,000 jobs to the 2006...

From the WSJ: In the clearest sign yet of how rapidly funding is vanishing for the risky loans that helped fuel the housing boom, nervous cr...

From Bloomberg: Rising mortgage defaults by subprime borrowers may add more than 500,000 homes to a residential real estate market already b...

This is a graph from Investors Business Daily Note that sales are still growing, but they are coming in below where analysts thought they we...

Because the employment report is so important right now, I think it's a good idea to get a look at the daily market charts before the ne...

The closing price indicates this was a good day -- the SPYs were up .76%, the QQQQs were up .91% and the IWNs were up 1.03%. But we had two...

Big thanks to Bonddad's girlfriend for this from MSNBC: Now the housing slump is hitting yet another target: housing-related jobs, a lis...

From Bloomberg: The coldest February since 1979 caused U.S. retailers' sales to grow at the slowest pace in 11 months as consumers delay...

  Why is Pace University making it so hard for Chris Williams to get a union contract?   The U.S. House passed legislation last week that wo...

The Federal Reserve Issued the Beige Book yesterday. Here's a link to the report. Here are some highlights from various news sources: W...

From the WSJ: Hedge-fund investors betting on the riskiest home-mortgage loans are learning a difficult lesson: The higher they fly, the fur...

From CNN: "I don't think '08 is going to be a great year, but it's going to be much better than '07," CEO Don Tomn...

I've been posting the daily stock charts since the market sold-off last week. After a big sell-off, the daily charts can give us an ide...

From CBS Marketwatch: Crude-oil futures climbed Wednesday to touch a high of $62 a barrel after U.S. data showed that supplies of crude decl...

I've always like Briefing.com. The link just listed is to a new page that keeps a running tab on up/down volume etc... by the hour. I...

From Bloomberg: A year after the housing slump began, the spring selling season is off to a rocky start with a glut of unsold properties and...

The following paragraph about the oil market caught my eye: "There is an expectation that when the equity markets complete the current ...

From the WSJ: Turmoil in the market for bonds backed by home mortgages is starting to infect its commercial cousins: mortgage bonds backed b...