Saturday, March 8, 2014

International Week in Review; Peering Into the Mind of A Central Bank Editioin

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This is up over at XE.com

Weekly Indicators for March 3 - 7 at XE.com

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 - by New Deal democrat This week's edition of Weekly Indicators is  up at XE.com .  Behind the decent February jobs report, a lot of...
Friday, March 7, 2014

February jobs report: surprisingly decent

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- by New Deal democrat In February 175,000 jobs were added to the US economy.  The unemployment rate rose slightly, up 0.1% to 6.7% . Dec...
Thursday, March 6, 2014

The ECB Drops The Policy Ball

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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Euro, Yen and Pound Technical Update

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This is up over at XE.com http://community.xe.com/forum/xe-market-analysis/euro-yen-and-pound-technical-update

The cutoff in extended unemployment benefits by Congress wasn't just vile, it explains much of the economic weakness so far this year

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  - by New Deal democrat Before getting to the main subject of this post, let me say that I consider it an act of moral depravity to ...

A Quick Check of Where the Markets Are

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With all of the political unrest over the last few days, let's take a look at the SPYs to see how the equity markets are reacting. ...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Paul Krugman agrees with me!

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 - by New Deal democrat (about gas prices essentially determining the inflation rate). Oh, yeah, and gas prices are cheaper than ...
Monday, March 3, 2014

Markit Manufacturing Numbers Point to EU Growth

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Junk Bonds Continue to Rally; Junk Spreads Continue to Narrow

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The above chart of the junk bond ETF shows that investors are still reaching for yield.  The above chart is still very bullish.  Let'...
Sunday, March 2, 2014

And For the 8,000 Bonddad Blog Post .... International Week in Review, The Big US GDP Miss Edition

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Saturday, March 1, 2014

Weekly Indicators for February 24 - 28 at XE.com

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  - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicator column is  up at XE.com . Something more than the unusually cold winter weather may be beh...
Friday, February 28, 2014

My housing bet with Calculated Risk: January 2014 results

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 - by New Deal democrat As most readers know Bill McBride a/k/a Calculated Risk and I have a charitable bet about the direction of h...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

Australian, European and Dow Jones ETFs Forming Short Term Tops on 30-Minutes Chart

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    Above are the 30-minute charts for the Dow Jones, Australian and European ETFs.  All three have several common technical fe...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Cattle ETF Rallying

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Above is the daily chart of the cattle ETF.  Since the beginning of February it has rallied a little over 10%, rising from 26.7 to ~29.7....

New home sales hit best record in 5 years, but still show YoY deceleration

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  - by New Deal democrat Housing bulls finally got a piece of good news this morning in the January new home sales report. But the YoY%...

USD/JPY Consolidating In a Triangle Pattern

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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

How concerned should we be about the recent downturn in sales?

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  - by New Deal democrat I have the answer  up at XE.com .

Two US Indexes At Key Inflection Points

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Above is a chart for the IWMs (top chart) and SPYs (bottom chart).  Both are currently at key inflection points (~117 and 185, respec...
Monday, February 24, 2014

ECRI now claims we're in the longest recession since 1929-32

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 - by New Deal democrat I haven't addressed the badly blown recession call by the formerly highly-regarded ECRI since its 2 year anni...