Global Market Comments February 23, 2016 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (WHERE DRIVERLESS CARS WILL TAKE US), (TSLA), (AAPL), (GOOGL), (AN AFTERNOON WITH GENERAL COLIN POWELL) Tesla Motors, Inc. (TSLA) Apple Inc. (AAPL) Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL)
Global Market Comments February 22, 2016 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (HOW LOW WILL BIOTECH GO?), (IBB), (GILD), (CELG), (VRX), (TESTIMONIAL) Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD) iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology (IBB) Celgene Corporation (CELG) Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. (VRX)
Long-term readers of this letter prospered mightily from my addiction to biotech stocks, one of the top performing sectors in the stock market during the first half of last year. Readers made three round trips in hepatitis C drug developer Gilead Sciences (GILD) in the past four months, adding 5.77% to the value of their
?If you want to be an economist on Wall Street, here?s a tip. If weekly jobless claims don?t go up, nothing bad is happening,? said Drew Matus, chief economist at UBS.?
Global Market Comments February 19, 2016 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (HOW THE REST OF 2016 WILL PLAY OUT), (SPY), (AAPL), (PANW), (BAC), (GILD), (TLT), (TBT), (HYG), (AMLP), (FXE), (FXA), (FXC), (CYB), (FCX), (GLD), (SLV), (ITB) (A NOTE ON THE MARCH OPTIONS EXPIRATIONS) SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) Apple Inc. (AAPL) Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (PANW)
Traders and investors can be excused for being confused, befuddled, and clueless about the future direction of all asset classes after the trading violence of the first six weeks of 2016. $500 points down! $400 points up! Ten year Treasury bond yields at 1.55%! Negative interest rates in Japan! Oil hits $26! HELP! Professional Investment
We have the February options expiration today and have the good fortune to see two positions in our model trading portfolio expire at their maximum potential profit point. Those who held on through the dog days last week will be richly rewarded. Good job, and on to the next trade. You are one of the
?Gold and silver are money. Everything else is credit," said John Pierpont Morgan, Founder J.P. Morgan Chase Bank and Morgan Stanley.
Global Market Comments February 18, 2016 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MY MOST DANGEROUS ADVENTURE EVER), (BRING BACK THE UPTICK RULE!)
I was walking into the post office here in Incline Village, Nevada when I came across three little old ladies sitting at a card table. One asked ?Have you registered yet for the February 20 Nevada caucus??? I answered that I was an independent, as I didn?t trust anyone. That meant I couldn?t vote in
?I?d rather vote for a dried dog turd than Donald Trump,? said Liz Mayer, a strategist for the Republican Party.
Global Market Comments February 17, 2016 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (WHY I?M BUYING THE EURO), (FXE), (UUP), (DXJ), (RSX), GREK), (THE CASE FOR EUROPE), (FXE), (DXJ), (RSX), GREK), (OPTIONS FOR THE BEGINNER) CurrencyShares Euro ETF (FXE) PowerShares DB US Dollar Bullish ETF (UUP) WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity ETF (DXJ) Market Vectors Russia ETF (RSX) Global
I am used to my readers thinking that I have gone ?Mad?, am out of my tree, or have started smoking California?s number one cash crop (hint: it?s not almonds).Such was the abuse that I received last week when I demanded they buy oil at $28 a barrel last week. After all, no other authority
I have been to Greece many times over the past 45 years, and I?ll tell you that I just love the place. The beaches are perfect, the Ouzo wine enticing, and I?ll never say ?No? to a good moussaka. However, I don?t let Greece dictate my investment strategy. Greece, in fact, accounts for less than
Global Market Comments February 16, 2016 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (NO ZERO INTEREST RATES HERE!), (TLT), (BAC), (C), (JPM), (MS), (GS), (THE NEW COLD WAR), (THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY) iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (TLT) Bank of America Corporation (BAC) Citigroup Inc. (C) JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) Morgan Stanley (MS) The Goldman Sachs Group,
Global Market Comments February 12, 2016 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (JANET LAYS AN EGG) (SPY), (TLT), (FXY), (GOOGL), (AAPL), (TWTR), (FB), (WHO THE GRAND NICARAGUA CANAL HAS WORRIED) SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (TLT) CurrencyShares Japanese Yen ETF (FXY) Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) Apple Inc. (AAPL) Twitter, Inc. (TWTR) Facebook, Inc.
Financial markets often behave like demanding, spoiled, and fickle children. If they don?t get what they want RIGHT NOW they throw a temper tantrum.That is exactly what bourses are doing around the world.? The Dow Average rallied 500 points this week in the hope that my former Berkeley economics professor, Federal Reserve governor Janet Yellen,
Global Market Comments February 11, 2016 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE BATTERY IN YOUR FUTURE), or (THE GREENING OF EXXON), (USO), (SNE), (TSLA), (XOM), (SCAM OF THE MONTH)United States Oil (USO)Sony Corporation (SNE)Tesla Motors, Inc. (TSLA)Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM)
Yesterday, I provided to you the evidence that oil may never again reach a triple digit price click here for ?Oil: It?s Different This Time? . Today I am going to tell you what will replace it. Sony Corp. (SNE) invented the lithium ion battery in 1991 to power its high end consumer electronics products.
Global Market Comments February 10, 2016 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (OIL: IS IT DIFFERENT THIS TIME?) (USO), (LINE), (CHK), (FCX), (KOL), (THE BIPOLAR ECONOMY), (AAPL), (INTC), (ORCL), (CAT), (IBM), (TESTIMONIAL)United States Oil (USO) Linn Energy, LLC (LINE) Chesapeake Energy Corporation (CHK) Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (FCX) Market Vectors Coal ETF (KOL) Apple Inc. (AAPL) Intel Corporation (INTC)