The financial media, monetary policy lords, and global stock markets are now interconnected at a level that goes far beyond anything it once was. You cannot rely on and act on information the way you could in years past. A major shift occurred over the last two...
Today’s analysis includes a few choice articles, charts, and interviews since events impacting the stock market are increasingly nefarious. In addition to my usual Dow and S&P 500 technical analysis, the NASDAQ 100 and Russell 2000 charts will follow the topics at...
The just-in-time (JIT) supply chain that sustains the world’s addiction to semiconductors (chips or microchips) for electronic goods dipped further into the abyss last week as China ordered power cuts that shut down a broad swath of mainland electronics manufacturing...
Today’s main event was a TaperCaper continuation and interest rate expectations from the FOMC meeting. News cycles on numerous topics and bombshell revelations occurring at breakneck speed (aka full-spectrum dominance agenda) make it increasingly difficult to...
It was definitely steamy with extreme drought in regions across the United States, but gold and silver did not hit seasonality liftoff this summer. There were numerous opportunities to trade upside sweet spots and short downside swoons on the whim of economic reports...
Remember when Ben Bernanke finally walked the quantitative easing (QE) taper talk in Dec. 2013, six months after letting the cat out of the bag during his May 2013 congressional testimony that launched an infamous “taper tantrum?” Remember when Janet Yellen pulled the...