Monthly Archives: April 2024
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04Apr3:16 pmEST
Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes
After being one of the undisputed monsters off the pre-Halloween low, AMD is now displaying serious signs of changes in latitudes and changes in price attitudes . More importantly, the relevant issues for us is whether the large semiconductor play is functioning as a leader to the downside now, too, after clearly being one of the leaders to...
03Apr1:47 pmEST
Looking for a 5x4 By Memorial Day
Powell gave remarks at Stanford University earlier today where he is still sticking to his guns that we are merely seeing a "bumpy" path down to 2% target inflation. In other words, the recent data are not swaying him off his rate cut plan for later this year, just yet. Powell and his cohorts at The Fed have been awfully stubborn on this...
02Apr12:25 pmEST
It's How Civilizations Fall
The SOFR is an acronym which stands for, "Secured Overnight Financing Rate," and is the replacement to LIBOR (which stood for "London Interbank Offer Rate"). LIBOR was deemed too prone to manipulation (try to hold your laughter) and thus the SOFR calculation was tweaked a bit from the LIBOR. But, essentially, SOFR acts like LIBOR did, as...
01Apr11:12 amEST
April Bond Fool in the Rain
I almost never headline a blog post with a chart. Typically, I use a photo relevant to the title or body of the post. However, and this certainly is no April Fools' Day joke, TBT (ultra-SHORT ETF for Treasuries, essentially a bet on higher rates by being long TBT) has been the mainstay in my portfolio for over fifteen months now with Members....