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Making Money Alert: Surviving the September Scuttlebutt
Surviving the September Scuttlebutt Last week marked the final days of “summer,” at least in market terms. As expected, there wasn’t much market participation. Now, however, we’ve entered September, historically the worst month of the year for the stock market. This year, the September scuttlebutt is swirling with rumors, hints and speculation about all sorts […]
Making Money Alert: War Drums Beat on Markets
War Drums Beat on Markets The latest soundtrack in the financial markets can best be described as the beating of war drums with Syria. Since tensions in that Middle East nation have escalated to the point where U.S. military action now is almost a certainty, the price of assets such as oil, gold, Treasury bonds […]
Making Money Alert: The Rate Ramp and the Foreign Factor
The Rate Ramp and the Foreign Factor If you harbored any doubt about the biggest story in the markets right now, then one look at the action in the Treasury bond pits (i.e. interest rates) will disabuse you of that uncertainty. Recent data on bond outflows show that investors in the United States have been […]
Making Money Alert: Higher Interest Rates and a 1987 Market Redux
Higher Interest Rates and a 1987 Market Redux If you want to find out what the market is really worried about, just watch the action in the bond market. This is something investors have learned over the years, and it’s why there’s a market adage that says that the bond market is smarter than the […]
Making Money Alert: Losing Its Momentum
Losing Its Momentum Stocks managed to push higher last week, as many traders now suspect that the Federal Reserve will either keep up the pace, or only slightly alter, its bond buying program at its next Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in September. The “dovish” comments from the FOMC last week actually downgraded the […]
Making Money Alert: A Macro Data Extravaganza
A Macro Data Extravaganza Today we saw a flood of alphabet soup data, with news on the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the ADP report on jobs and the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting. Let’s take each one as a separate bite here, and see what the implications are for the markets. First, today we […]
Making Money Alert: A Sideways Summer Stall?
A Sideways Summer Stall? The markets have made a decided move to the upside since late June, but during the past couple of days we’ve seen a bit of a summer stall. Trading volumes have been relatively light, and the markets now are keying on the bevy of earnings reports that have come in. So […]
Making Money Alert: The Honey Badger Stock Market
The Honey Badger Stock Market Stocks just want to go higher, and it doesn’t matter if the Fed is going to peel back quantitative easing, or if GDP growth in the second quarter is going to be a pathetic 1%. Buyers just keep buying, and that means stocks have recovered all of what they lost […]
Making Money Alert: Interest Rates — Up, Up and Away!
Interest Rates — Up, Up and Away! The biggest news in the market right now is the rise in long-term interest rates, i.e. the spike we’ve seen in long-term Treasury bond yields. Last Friday, interest rates, as measured by the yield on the 10-Year Treasury note, spiked to 2.71%, the highest level for this key […]
Making Money Alert: The Liquidation Cycle and Wall Street Fireworks
The Liquidation Cycle and Wall Street Fireworks The saga continues in the bond markets, with the sector moving completely out of whack since the Fed’s talk about tapering its easy-money policies entered the global investing consciousness. Recall that in last week’s Making Money Alert, we discussed the liquidation cycle in global equities, emerging markets and […]
Jim Woods is a 30-plus-year veteran of the markets with varied experience as a broker, hedge fund trader, financial writer, author and newsletter editor.
His books include co-authoring, “Billion Dollar Green: Profit from the Eco Revolution,” and “The Wealth Shield: How to Invest and Protect Your Money from Another Stock Market Crash, Financial Crisis or Global Economic Collapse.” He’s also ghostwritten many books and articles, as well as edited content for some of the investment industry’s biggest luminaries. Read more about Jim Woods.
