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Monday, March 26, 2007

New Home Inventory in Perspective

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This graph is from Interest rate roundup a great blog that everybody should read. Not only does it make me miss a Bloomberg terminal, it a...

Is the Oil Weekly Chart Forming an Upside-Down Head and Shoulders Pattern?

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If it is, then the last 4-6 months have been a consolidation, and a move above the neckline would indicate a possible bull run --- just in t...

Oil Prices Set Yearly High

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From Yahoo News: Oil prices settled Monday at their highest level so far this year on tensions between Iran and the West following Tehran...

Markets Stage an Impressive Rally

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The charts say it all. The SPYs, QQQQs and IWNs all tanked after the new home sales reports. But all three staged an impressive recovery t...

More on New Home Sales

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Welcome to Taylor Marsh Readers Welcome to the Left Coaster Readers From Bloomberg: The supply of unsold homes climbed to the highest in 16 ...

New Home Sales Drop 3.9%

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Welcome to Atrios Readers. For more information -- and some great graphs -- see Calculated Risk First -- this report has an incredibly large...

Dollar Update

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The weekly dollar chart still shows the dollar is in a bearish pattern of lower lows and lower highs. Also note 1.) The trend line is still...

Foreclosures Still Increasing

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From Bloomberg: U.S. homeowners are falling behind on their payments 33 percent faster than they did last year, according to a report by Cal...

OPEC Production Cuts Reduce Output By 1 Million Barrels/Day

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From Bloomberg: Saudi Arabia is shipping less oil to customers. OPEC by February reduced daily output by 1 million barrels. Global inventori...

A Quick Review of Last Week

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From IBD: The Nasdaq ramped up 3.2% for the week. That was the tech-laden composite's best return since a 3.2% surge during the week end...
Sunday, March 25, 2007

Agricultural Prices Still At Dangerous Levels

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Here is a chart of agricultural futures. Remember that in both CPI and PPI, agricultural prices have been spiking for the last three months...

Oil Prices Making a Comeback

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Here is a daily chart of oil prices: Last week's price action is circled. Notice the big jump in prices after the Iranians captured 15 ...

The Week Ahead

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New home sales come out on Monday. Pay particular attention to the inventory levels -- especially the raw numbers. The total available inv...
Saturday, March 24, 2007

Saturday = Day Off

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Going to a local art festival with my girlfriend. She's the only person who can get me away from the markets. Back sometime tomorrow.
Friday, March 23, 2007

The Market's Last Week

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Let's take a look at the charts to see what happened last week The SPYS had a nice upward bias through mid-Wednesday. They spiked after...

Existing Home Sales Increase Most in three Years

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From Bloomberg: Sales of previously owned homes in the U.S. unexpectedly rose in February at the fastest pace in three years, a sign the ho...

How Widespread are Subprime Problems?

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Pretty far. From the WSJ (subscription required) : Far from being limited to the subprime market, the data show these risky loan features h...

Oil Prices Jump

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From IBD: Near-month oil futures shot up on fuel supply fear a day after gov't data showed another big drop in gasoline and heating oil ...
Thursday, March 22, 2007

Countrywide Executives Dumping Stock

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From the Street: Insiders at Countrywide, the nation's largest mortgage lender, have sold $314 million worth of shares in the company ju...

Countrywide Financial: 2006 Defaults Could Set a Record

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From CNBC: "We believe that declining home prices and other factors ... may produce foreclosures numbers on 2006 originations approachi...
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