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Warning Signs For Market Are Becoming Ominous!
As the potential Sell in May and Go Away influence approaches, problems for the stock market are stacking up from both the fundamental and technical sides.On the fundamental side;New home sales fell...
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Why The Cheap Yen Isn't Boosting Japan's Exports
The value of the yen has fallen sharply since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office in December on a promise to defeat deflation, while the Bank of Japan’s decision this month to ramp up its...
View ArticleJapan Steps into the Void
By: Peter Schiff Friday, April 19, 2013 In the years following the global financial crisis, economists and investors have gotten very comfortable with very high, and seemingly persistent, government...
View ArticleWeekly Eurozone Watch: The Devil Wears Prodi
Key Data PointsGerman 10-year Bund 1 bp lower; France 1 bp tighter to the Bund; Belgium 2 bps tighter; Ireland 11 bps tighter; Italy 10 bps tighter; Spain 6 bps tighter; Portugal 24 bp tighter; Greece...
View ArticleDaily Interest Rate Monitor – April 19
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View ArticleU.S. Equity Sector ETF Weekly Performance – April 19
Breaking 20-day moving averageFinancials (XLF), Industrials (XLI), Technology (XLK)Breaking 50-day moving averageIndustrials (XLI), Technology (XLK)Breaking 100-day moving averageMaterials...
View ArticleThe Great Duration Rotation Continues, But For How Long?
Matt Tucker, CFA, is the iShares Head of Fixed Income Strategy and a regular contributor to the iShares Blog. In an earlier post I examined the mysterious rise in interest rates that we have seen in...
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5 Reasons Why Emerging Markets Are Selling Off
A confluence of recent events has been pressuring emerging countries' equity markets. Over the past couple of years emerging and developed markets have been moving in lockstep, but the two have...
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Rail Traffic Continues To Trend Lower
Recent rail trends have weakened substantially from very strong levels earlier this year. The latest weekly reading came in at 3.3% year over year, but continues a trend of low single digit readings....
View ArticleCurrency Positioning and Technical Outlook: Mostly Cloudy, Chance of Rain
There are times that we find the technical picture for the currencies to be clearer than the macro economic fundamentals. This is not one of those times. A key challenge for traders is to determine...
View ArticleAusterity Is A Consequence — Not A Punishment
The Bang! MomentThe Purpose of DebtAusterity Is a Consequence, Not a PunishmentSan Francisco, Carlsbad, Tulsa, Nashville, and BrusselsTwo seemingly different questions and comments from readers and...
View ArticleETF Insider: Did You Buy On The Dip?
Equity markets kicked off last week on a very sour note after worse-than-expected China GDP data opened up the gates for the bears on Wall Street. To top it off, extreme selling pressures in the gold...
View ArticleDeficits At The National And State Levels Are Shrinking Rapidly
A couple of updates ... From Goldman Sachs economist Alec Phillips: The Federal Budget Deficit: Shrinking Faster:The federal deficit continues to shrink. Through the first six months of the fiscal...
View ArticleEL-ERIAN: It's Official — The World Needs To Worry About The Damage Caused By QE
It is now official: "We will be mindful of unintended negative side effects stemming from extended periods of monetary easing." This is how the G-20, the most important country grouping today, put it...
View ArticleCool Video: Why There are Deserts? Explained in 2 minutes 20 seconds
Cool Video explaining why there are deserts on earth from Henry Reich's Minute Physics on YouTube. Read more posts on Marc to Market »Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook.Join the...
View ArticleGlobal Economic Growth – The Economist
In recent years poor countries have enjoyed impressive improvements in GDP per person. But in the rich world they have hardly grown at all.(click here if video is not observable)Read more posts on...
View ArticleWeekend Lecture: Palaniappan Chidambaram
Palaniappan Chidambaram, Union Minister of Finance of the Republic of India says“there are no clear signs that recovery has begun over all countries.”Click here for interview(click here if picture is...
View ArticleOverbought and Oversold Markets – April 19
The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is a momentum oscillator that measures the speed and change of price moves. The RSI moves between zero and 100 and is considered overbought with a reading above 70 and...
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CITI: We Think Both Greece And Cyprus Will Exit The Euro
Major debt restructuring for both Cyprus and Greece will probably force the struggling euro zone countries to leave the single currency, according to Citigroup's latest economic outlook, which warned...
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China's Disappointing New Growth Figures Aren't The End Of The World
Engineers used to dominate Chinese policymaking. But the Communist Party's highest organ, the seven-member standing committee of the Politburo, now includes three economists, for better or worse,...
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