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As if the largest stock market decline since October 2008 wasn’t enough to put the fear of God back into stock market bulls (and by the way, it was hilarious to see Matt Lauer once again shaking with financial fear on the Today Show this morning) – here’s another piece of bad news: This drop […]
It’s looking more and more apparent by the day that deflation is returning to the financial markets – and with a vengeance. Yes sir, deflation is back – it’s out to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and apparently it has just run out of gum! The reflation trade is being exposed as the fraud we […]
Flipping through the Wall Street Journal Online, there’s not much love for Europe or the Euro right now, as headlines read: EU Worries Push Stocks Lower Europe Contagion Infects Global Markets Turmoil Helps Push Euro to a 14-Month Low (For some further fun reading on being a WSJ contrarian, check out our fun piece on […]
Yesterday we mused that a turning point may be appearing in the markets, as indicated by the negative divergences that are popping up. In a rare act of God, we were right! Well, at least for a day. And they’ll never be able to take that away from us. Stocks, commodities, and just about everything […]
Perhaps the most visible social mood trend today is the extreme backlash against Wall Street by “Main Street”. If you want to rally someone on your side at a cocktail party – provided you are anywhere but New York City – a sharp comment denouncing Goldman Sachs will probably win you a sympathetic friend! We […]
We’ve written a lot about the outlook for the Euro and the Eurozone recently, and any way we slice it, it sure doesn’t look good! Perhaps fellow contrarians David Galland and Kevin Brekke can find a silver lining to these dark storm clouds? Read on to learn more… *** The Euro Is Screwed By Kevin […]
Asset prices are continuing to decouple, slowly but surely, it appears. Today, equities and energy were up big – while the rest of the commodity sectors had a bad case of “The Mondays”: Why is this potentially significant? Because markets have been moving more or less in tandem for 5 or 6 years now – […]
The Chicago Board Options Exchange publishes a daily report detailing open put vs. call option positions of traders. Since this represents bets made on stock prices rising vs. falling in the near future, it’s an interesting gauge of sentiment. Today I pulled this data since 2004 from the CBOE’s website, and plotted the 200-day simple […]
While oil has been on a tear during the reflation rally, it’s cousin natural gas has not received the same love from traders. “The Natty”, which currently is languishing around $4, couldn’t be hated more, writes Steve Sjuggerud for DailyWealth: Specifically, right now, there are more bets against natural gas by large speculators than there […]
The great Milton Friedman famously predicted in 1999 that Europe would not survive it’s first economic crisis – it’s looking more and more like Uncle Milt is going to be right on the money. The debt ratings of the PIIGS are going down faster than a stack of dominoes, with Spain being the latest Club […]
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