Bloomberg interviewed Alicia Munnell from the Boston College Center for Retirement Research. She of course has come to be a thought leader for what ails the Social Security system. Shockingly it boi...
The headlines say the durable goods new orders improved. The unadjusted three month rolling average improved. .Analyst Opinion of the Durable Goods Situation Our analysis is more positive than the hea...
The CRB Index gapped higher today and it follows a gap higher opening on Tuesday, which has not been filled. Today’s gains lift the commodity index to a trendline drawn off the January and Febr...
Shares of AstraZeneca (AZN) are dropping sharply after the company said its MYSTIC trial failed to show its two-drug combination extended progression-free survival compared with standard-of-care chemo...
In what is likely to provide a big boost to second quarter GDP numbers, wholesale and retail inventories surged in June according to Advance Indicators from the Census Department. The advance number...
The plunge in US equity markets continues – led by big tech names… Sending VIX soaring to 11 for the first time in 3 weeks. As stocks slip, and VIX spikes, liquidity is also disappe...
The Chicago Fed’s National Activity Index, which we reported on this morning, is based on 85 economic indicators drawn from four broad categories of data: Production and Income Employment, Unem...
Photo Source Investing in the safest banks has historically been very lucrative. They have high returns on equity and can dig economic moats around their businesses in the form of high switching costs...
Rick Ackerman kicks off today with his targets for gold, silver and the US dollar. The burden of proof is still on the bulls to finally push the gold price past the election night highs. As for the do...
Work Day (Ticker: WDAY) is on the move and is breaking out right now. WDAY spent the past month and a half consolidating and the past week really tightening up. When we see patterns tighten up, build ...