Despite Higher GDP, U.S. Economic Data Continues to Disappoint: Episode 26

* As I mentioned in my video blog I recorded on Friday,  the jobs data that came out on Friday was just not weak enough for the market * So the markets' carnage continues, because everybody still bel...

9 Feb 201625min

* It really was a brutal week on Wall Street, led by the tech-heavy NASDAQ, which is down about 5-1/2% on the week; 3% of that alone came today, now down about 17% from its high * Not officially in a...

6 Feb 201627min

* So far the month of February is just 4 trading days old, and already the U.S. dollar index is down just over 3 percent * We closed January at 99.6 and we closed at 96.5 * Gold, going the other way...

5 Feb 201625min

* It was another tough day in the stock market today; the Dow Jones finished down 295 points, NASDAQ fared even worse, down 103 points, that's about 2.25% * These 100-point moves are coming quite oft...

3 Feb 201632min

* First it was the ECB, and then it was the Bank of Japan, cutting interest rates overnight to -.1% * That is the first time in this 20-year experiment of cheap money - I think they've been at zero, ...

30 Jan 201629min

* As I said in my last podcast, when the the Federal Reserve issued its press release yesterday at 2:00pm, Janet Yellen did not give the markets they were hoping for; in a way, it was almost as if she...

29 Jan 201627min

* The Mario Draghi "No-Limits"-inspired rally from Thursday and Friday of last week ended on Monday with the Dow Jones down just over 200 points; the NASDAQ was down about 75 points, so an even bigger...

27 Jan 201629min

* The U.S. stock market ended the week with a 2-day rally, in fact the Dow Jones closed better than 200 points today, to about 1690 *  NASDAQ, even stronger, up 119, closing at almost back up to 4600...

23 Jan 201623min