Global Market Comments October 18, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (OCTOBER 23 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR), (THE SHUTDOWN IS OVER?FOR NOW), (SPY), (EUROPEAN STYLE HOMELAND SECURITY), (TESTIMONIAL) SPDR S&P 500 (SPY)
After 16 days of high drama, bluster, and handwringing, the Great Washington Shutdown of 2013 is finally over. President Obama held fast and won. The Republicans kept changing their goals by the day and lost. But what we got was anything but a resolution. The next shutdown is now scheduled for January 15, and the
The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent events in Libya, and have therefore raised their security level from ?Miffed? to ?Peeved.? Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to ?Irritated? or even ?A Bit Cross.? The English have not been ?A Bit Cross? since the blitz in 1940, when tea
Global Market Comments October 17, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (DOGS OF THE DOW REVISTED) (XME), (XLB), (DBB), (JJG), (MOO), (DBA), (GLD), (SLV), (PLEASE USE MY FREE DATA BASE SEARCH) SPDR S&P Metals & Mining (XME) Materials Select Sector SPDR (XLB) PowerShares DB Base Metals (DBB) iPath DJ-UBS Grains TR Sub-Idx ETN (JJG) Market Vectors
Sitting at my lakefront estate at Lake Tahoe?s Incline Village, I began to cogitate on what my trading portfolio for 2014 should look like. Then I thought, ?Why wait?? Better to get the message out now than wait two and a half more months. The entry point for risk assets is better now than it
Global Market Comments October 16, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (ONSHORING TAKES ANOTHER GREAT LEAP FORWARD), (TSLA), (UMX), (EWW), (THE BULL MARKET IN MUSTANGS) Tesla Motors, Inc. (TSLA) ProShares Ultra MSCI Mexico Cppd IMI (UMX) iShares MSCI Mexico Capped (EWW)
Have you tried to hire a sewing machine operator lately? I haven?t, but I have friends running major apparel companies who have (guess where I get all those tight fitting jeans?) Guess what? There aren?t any to be had. Since, 1990, some 77% of the American textiles workforce has been lost, when China joined the
Sitting here in the Silver State of Nevada, high in the Sierras, I feel obliged to comment on a bull market of a different sort. The Western US has found a new wrinkle in the housing collapse, where homeowners are desperately struggling to cut living costs to meet the next doubling of their adjustable rate
Global Market Comments October 15, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (YALE?S ROBERT SHILLER BAGS NOBEL ECONOMICS PRIZE), (THE TRUE COST OF OIL), (USO), (XOM) United States Oil (USO) Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM)
It isn?t often when a friend of mine wins a Nobel Prize. But that?s what happened this weekend when the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the prestigious award to Yale University?s Robert Shiller. Shiller, along with Eugene Fama, and Lars Peter Hanson of the University of Chicago will share the $1.23 million cash award
My annual electric bill here in sunny San Francisco comes to $4,800 a year. Since the California power authorities have set a goal of 33% alternative energy sources by 2020, PG&E (PGE) has the most aggressive green energy program in the country (click here for ?The Solar Boom in California?. More expensive solar, wind, geothermal,
Global Market Comments October 14, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (NOVEMBER 1 SAN FRANCISCO STRATEGY LUNCHEON), (THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN IS WORSE THAN YOU THINK), (A SAD FAREWELL TO HELEN THOMAS)
Come join me for lunch at the Mad Hedge Fund Trader?s Global Strategy Update, which I will be conducting in San Francisco on Friday, November 1, 2013. An excellent meal will be followed by a wide-ranging discussion and an extended question and answer period. I?ll be giving you my up to date view on stocks,
I am rapidly coming to the depressing conclusion that the government shutdown, now in its 15th day, is going to have a far greater impact on the economy than most economists realize. When the markets figure this out, the result for share prices could be dire, putting my entire yearend bull case at risk. My
Global Market Comments October 11, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (JOIN THE INVEST LIKE A MONSTER SAN FRANCISCO TRADING CONFERENCE), (APPLE IS READY TO EXPLODE), (AAPL), (CHL) Apple Inc. (AAPL) China Mobile Limited (CHL)
I am pleased to announce that I will be participating in the Invest like a Monster Trading Conference in San Francisco during October 25-26. The two-day event brings together experts from across the financial landscape that will improve your understanding of markets by a quantum leap and measurably boost your own personal trading performance. Tickets
You have to be impressed how Apple shares have been trading during the Washington shutdown and the debt ceiling crisis. While other highflying technology stocks have crashed and burned, Apple has held like the Rock of Gibraltar. Is this presaging much better things to come? After the bar was set extremely low in the run
Global Market Comments October 10, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE BEST ETF?S OF 2013), Guggenheim Solar ETF (TAN) Market Vectors Solar Energy ETF (KWT) First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge Green Energy Index Fund (QCLN) Market Vectors Global Alternative Energy ETF (GEX) The PowerShares Wilderhill Clean Energy Portfolio (PBW) The First Trust ISE Global Wind
I?m sure you all spent the better part of last January explaining to your clients that they should be pouring all of their money into alternative energy, social media, and biotech ETF?s. What! You didn?t? You obviously failed to get the memo. Well, neither did I. Yes, I know this sounds like the makeup of
You can? keep a good stock down. That?s the obvious message on Tesla (TLSA) shares in the wake of the fire that consumed one of its $80,000 Model?s S-1?s on a Washington state road after it ran over the rear bumper of the truck it was following. The video was quickly plastered all over YouTube