Kurt Osterberg

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A Little-Known Indicator Sees VIX Soaring To 40

When Morgan Stanley’s chief equity strategist Michael Wilson released his 2018 equity outlook earlier this year, one particular observation struck us: a curious correlation between volatility a...
On April 20, 2018 / By Kurt Osterberg
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British Pound Rally Running Out Of Catalysts

The outlook for the pound, while still bullish, is looking less optimistic today. More specifically, factors including the ongoing slowdown in regional growth, lower expectations for a May rate hike, ...
On April 20, 2018 / By Kurt Osterberg
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From Fake Boom To Real Bust

More is revealed with each passing day. You can count on it. But what exactly the ‘more is of’ requires careful discrimination. Is the ‘more’ merely more noise? Or is it something of actual su...
On April 20, 2018 / By Kurt Osterberg
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ECRI Weekly Leading Index Update – Friday, April 20

This morning’s release of the publicly available data from ECRI puts its Weekly Leading Index (WLI) at 148.9, up 1.1 from the previous week. Year-over-year the four-week moving average of the in...
On April 20, 2018 / By Kurt Osterberg
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Canada’s Future Is Not In Pipelines

We must resist short-term focus and pressure to borrow more debt and waste more cash developing antiquated energy sources, and instead double down on developing longer-term prosperity and health with ...
On April 20, 2018 / By Kurt Osterberg
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Bitcoin Breakout?

As you know, I don’t trade cryptos, but I find the charts of the big ones fascinating. Having risen about 30% since its last recent low, Bitcoin is at a bit of a “moment of truth”, since it is u...
On April 20, 2018 / By Kurt Osterberg
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Inflation Or Employment

Inflationary fears are growing and US rates continue to rise Employment has become more flexible since the crisis of 2008/2009 Commodity prices have risen but from multi-year lows During the next rece...
On April 20, 2018 / By Kurt Osterberg
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Stocks, Yields Tumble After Draghi Admits “Growth May Have Peaked”; ECB To Delay QE Unwind

As we have showed repeatedly over the past month, the European economic imploding, and nowhere is this more obvious than the Citi Eurozone Economic Surprise Index why will soon hit its post financial ...
On April 20, 2018 / By Kurt Osterberg
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EUR/USD Elliott Wave View: Still Trading Sideways

Short-term EUR/USD Elliott Wave view suggests that the pair remains in a sideways triangle range between 1.2554 and 1.2153 levels as mentioned in the previous post here. Until we break out of the ran...
On April 20, 2018 / By Kurt Osterberg
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US Dollar Shows Strength Ahead Of ECB, BoJ Rate Decisions

EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK (ECB), BANK OF JAPAN (BOJ) HIGHLIGHT NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR It’s been an interesting week across global markets, as earlier-week breakouts in both the British Pound and US eq...
On April 20, 2018 / By Kurt Osterberg