The Bonddad Blog

It's the end of the week. Go and think about anything except the markets. I'll be back on Monday. Until then.... Somehow this is ...

From the BLS: Both the number of unemployed persons (8.8 million) and the unemployment rate (5.7 percent) rose in July. Over the past 12 mo...

From Bloomberg: General Motors Corp., the largest U.S. automaker, reported a second-quarter loss of $15.5 billion because of strains from tr...

Is the bottoming continuing? On the weekly chart, notice the dollar has been in a decline for the last two years. Prices have continually ...

There was a lot of back and forth in the market today until about 2:30. The markets opened with a move higher, but then fell back starting ...

From CNBC: The Commerce Department reported Thursday that gross domestic product, or GDP, increased at an annual rate of 1.9 percent in the ...

I have a pet theory that before all of this is over we're going to see the following: at least one Detroit bankruptcy, at least one airl...

On the weekly chart, we can clearly see the bull market run that started in early 2007. Prices continued to move higher, breaking through...

The markets opened higher, then moved sideways to the 10 minute SMA. They rallied agian, but then started a very slow and gradual descent t...

From Bloomberg: The Federal Reserve extended its emergency lending programs to Wall Street firms through January after policy makers judged ...

I've seen this blurb on Bllomberg several times. We've seen about $450 billion of writedowns in the financial sector. About 85%-90% ...

The last few times I have posted this chart, I have speculated it was forming a double top. While this is still looking like a strong possi...

On the weekly chart, notice the CRB has been in a rally since the end of last summer. Prices have continually moved higher, broken through ...

The markets gapped up at the opening and then dropped a touch until they hit the 10 minute SMA. Then they shot higher from 124 to 128.80. ...

Sorry for taking so long to get to this. There were some other stories that I thought were a bit more important. On the 6 month chart, we ...

The Mess That Greenspan Made had some interesting charts up last week that got me thinking. First, here are the charts: On both...

From Bloomberg: Merrill Lynch & Co., the third- biggest U.S. securities firm, will sell $8.5 billion of stock and liquidate $30.6 billio...

I'll hit the charts later today. For now, consider the following: From the WSJ: Projections suggest the federal budget deficit c...

The markets opened with a quick upswing but couldn't maintain momentum. Prices started to drift lower after 9 AM, slowing falling below...

IBD highlighted the above chart on their front page today. It's very interesting. Notice the following: -- Prices were in a confirmed ...