We'll Be Slugging it Out in Japan This Weekend

06Sep11:01 amEST

Americans Will Never Give Up Their Guns

But they appear to have stopped buying news ones, for the time being. You may or may not recall the early-pandemic phenomenon where many took their "stimmy checks" to the gun shop, gun store, or sporting goods store (or your vendor of choice) to purchase the hot weapon(s) they have always desired. Of course, what this was doing, in effect,...

05Sep10:20 amEST

Follow the Script

Bulls are looking for markets to follow the "higher low" script, meaning any dips will be relatively shallow and ultimately bought up nicely into the end of calendar year to perhaps challenge all-time highs on the major indices. Bears are expecting the recent late-August snapback rally to amount to a "lower high," setting up a house of horrors...

04Sep10:53 amEST

Holiday Overview and Analysis 09/04/23 {Video}

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01Sep9:11 amEST

Morning Prep 09/01/23 {Video}

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31Aug4:56 pmEST

Stock Market Recap 08/31/23 {Video}

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30Aug3:11 pmEST

Something's Gotta Give

Over the last two years Okta, which reports this evening and is shown on the monthly chart, below, has beaten both top and bottom line estimates 100% (!) of the time. Although I have always thought that earnings are the epitome of a roulette wheel gamble, insofar as the immediate reaction, I suspect something has got to give, as LeAnn Rimes...

29Aug2:45 pmEST

Dog Day Rally

Some weak labor market data this morning , via The Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS report, from the Labor Department, was enough to send rates down and stocks up. And that move is persisting well into the afternoon as I write this. As you might imagine, I view this move as wishful thinking on both counts. Not only is this data...

28Aug2:42 pmEST

Legs for Days During NVIDIA's August

With just over three sessions left before the month of August concludes on Wall Street, NVIDIA's monthly candlestick (arrow, below on monthly chart) is shaping up to close with a "long-legged doji." Courtesy of Investopedia.com , here are some important points about long-legged dojis: Thus, as the last point notes, no guarantees. But then...

27Aug9:22 amEST

Weekend Overview and Analysis 08/27/23 {Video}

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25Aug11:22 amEST

We'll Be Slugging it Out in Japan This Weekend

Slugging it out in Jackson Hole, more precisely. With Powell having spoke this morning, and ECB President Christine Lagarde speaking later today out in Wyoming, do not sleep on new Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda's remarks tomorrow. Granted, it is on a Saturday. However, the weakness in the Japanese Yen currency continues to be a theme, and...