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Boeing’s Brash Bulls; Beyond’s Crash Rules
June 29, 2020 Great Stuff
Spread Your Wings and Fly Away It was an interesting Monday, dear reader. Pending home sales spiked 44.3% in May, even as sales were still 5.1% lower than in May 2019. Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to persistently low oil prices. COVID-19 infections hit 10 million, and deaths passed […] Big Banks Bound; Nike Left Barfoot; Mobile Suit Ekso
June 26, 2020 Great Stuff
Friday Four Play: The “Follow the Bouncing Banks” Edition What in the wild, wild world of banks is a goin’ on here? Yesterday, the Federal Deposited Insurance Commission (FDIC) rolled back Volcker Rule restrictions on big banks. Put simply, the loosened rules allow banking giants to more easily channel money into risky investments, such as […] Dow Drops Sow Doubt; Dell’s Dull Doldrums
June 24, 2020 Great Stuff
The Fed Stands Alone If you read the news today … oh, boy. Four thousand cases in Blackburn, Arizona. And though the cases were rather small, no case is small when it’s the ‘ronaaaa. I don’t want to turn you off, but the Dow dropped nearly 800 points during the day. The rest of the […] Jumpy Market Is Jumpy; Fastly Faster; Apple Is Boring, That’s Good
June 23, 2020 Great Stuff
These Volatile Delights… It took only three words last night to send Dow futures plunging 400 points. “It’s over. Yes.” Those three words came from White House trade adviser Peter Navarro. They were Navarro’s response to a rather long-winded question from Martha MacCallum on Fox News’ The Story: Do you think that the president sort […] Violently Flat Markets; Leaving on a Debt Plane
June 22, 2020 Great Stuff
Handle the Market With Care Well it’s all right, trading around in the breeze. Well it’s all right, you can trade however you please. Well it’s all right, doing the best you can. Well it’s all right, as long as the Fed lends a hand. That really is the key to this market rally, isn’t […]