TRV's 200-day moving average has been resistance for monthsTravelers Companies Inc (NYSE:TRV) is trading up 0.9% this morning at $124.18, trying to overcome a bear note out of RBC. The brokerage firm downgraded the insurance giant to "sector perform" from "outperform" and dropped its price target to $133 from $143. Citing the California wildfires and Hurricane Michael, RBC lowered its fourth-quart...Read More
ENTX is on track to trade near its late-October highsThe shares of Entera Bio Ltd. (NASDAQ:ENTX) are up 26.3% in electronic trading, after the biotech name announced a licensing deal with Amgen (AMGN) to collaborate on oral treatments for inflammatory diseases and other serious illnesses. Entera will receive up to $270 million in milestone payments, and will retain all property rights to its oral...Read More
Trump tweeted about "productive conversations" with BeijingFollowing Monday's volatile session, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) futures are trading more than 375 points above fair value this morning on news of fresh trade talks between Washington and Beijing. In addition to an overnight phone call between Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, and Chine...Read More
Getty ImagesMorning Glory Diner in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The numbers: The National Federation of Independent Business small-business optimism index fell 2.6 points in November to a seasonally adjusted level of 104.8, the lowest in seven months. Most of the decline coming from expectations about future sales and business conditions. What happened: No components of the index gained during...Read More
Fred Imbert| @foimbertPublished 16 Hours AgoUpdated2 Hours AgoCNBC.com show chapters Citi's top strategist says this is why he's betting on the bulls into the end of the year and beyond 2 Hours Ago |04:31 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed lower on Tuesday after alternating between gains and losses throughout the session in the latest bout of market volatility.Th...Read More
The 64-week moving average for AAPL just switched roles to act as resistanceIt wasn't that long ago that Wall Street was celebrating Apple's (AAPL) record-setting incursion into trillion-dollar market cap territory -- and so the spate of recent headlines (perhaps colored with the faintest tint of Schadenfreude?) crowing that Microsoft (MSFT) had now surpassed its cooler, upscale rival in terms of...Read More
Published 22 Hours AgoUpdated6 Hours AgoReuters Gold held steady near a five-month peak on Tuesday as fading expectations of further interest rate hikes in the United States burnished the appeal of non-interest-bearing bullion.Meanwhile, palladium was trading at a premium to gold, with prices of the autocatalyst metal rising more than 2 percent after President Donald Trump said on Twitter that Chi...Read More
Published 22 Hours AgoUpdated6 Hours AgoReuters Gold held steady near a five-month peak on Tuesday as fading expectations of further interest rate hikes in the United States burnished the appeal of non-interest-bearing bullion.Meanwhile, palladium was trading at a premium to gold, with prices of the autocatalyst metal rising more than 2 percent after President Donald Trump said on Twitter that Chi...Read More
Here Are 3 Hot Things to Know About Stocks Right Now The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose slightly after recovering from a 500-point drop on Monday following last week's 4.5% tumble. Apple Inc. (AAPL) rose in spite of a court in China granting an injunction that would limit the sale of iPhones into the world's biggest smartphone market.Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD) named industry vete...Read More
The U.K. pound plunged past an 20-month low Monday after Prime Minister Theresa May moved to delay a key parliamentary vote on her Brexit deal that looked certain to be rejected by lawmakers, throwing both her government and the broader plans to leave the European Union in chaos. The Prime Minister said she would delay the vote, which was slated to begin late Tuesday, as she seeks to find suppor...Read More
McClellan Financial Publications, IncPosted Dec 10, 2018December 06, 2018Housing sector stocks have been among the worst performers in 2018, and analysts are pointing to lots of different reasons including the newly imposed U.S. tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber.But an easier explanation arises when we look at interest rates.Mortgage rates are not yet empirically “high”.I bought my f...Read More
Bob Moriarty ArchivesDec 11, 2018We need to face it; ordinary investors hate resource stocks. It’s one of those unspoken but obviously true facts that we wish to avoid thinking about or discussing. Because once you acknowledge that regular investors have virtually no exposure to resources, you also need to start questioning just why that seems to be true.One cause is fairly simple to underst...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1243.00-$1.30Silver$14.55+$0.03XAU67.09-0.46%HUI152.82-0.78%GDM558.66-0.31%JSE Gold1249.83+2.68USD97.42+0.21Euro113.22-0.35Yen88.22-0.12Oil$51.65+$0.6510-Year2.879%+0.025T-Bond143.90625-0.15625Dow24370.24-0.22%Nasdaq7031.83+0.16%S&P2636.78-0.04% The Metals: Gold gained $5.20 to $1249.50 in London before it chopped back down to $1241.10 by midafternoon...Read More
By Ed Steer11 December 2018 -- TuesdayYESTERDAY in GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUM and PALLADIUMThe gold price went vertical the moment that trading began in New York at 6:00 p.m. EST on Sunday evening in New York. but the short sellers of last resort were there in seconds -- and from that point the price chopped quietly sideways until shortly before 3 p.m. China Standard Time on their Monday afternoon...Read More
By Craig HemkeEach of the past five years, we've predicted a year-end and new-year rally in precious metals. And for each of the past five years, the market has performed as forecast. So, what can be expected as 2018 becomes 2019? Let's begin with the past. As mentioned above, each of the past five years have seen year-end gold and silver price rallies. These rallies have begun around the time o...Read More
The Global Financial Crisis, a broader deeper more powerful systemic crisis than the Lehman Event was, has finally arrived in a great redux. It is seen in numerous areas. We have finally arrived at the ten-year anniversary of the Lehman event, a killjob whereby JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs bought a few $billion in mortgage bonds and never paid Lehman Brothers. The firm died, called a financial fai...Read More
By Dave KranzlerI chuckle when the hedge fund algos grab onto "positive" trade war headlines and trigger a sharp spike in stock futures. Settlement of the trade war between the Trump Government and China will do nothing to prevent a global economic recession - a recession which will likely deteriorate into a painful depression. The Central Bank "QE" maneuver was successful in camouflaging an...Read More
Graceland UpdatesBy Stewart Thomson 1. Where are the populist government leaders who are cutting their outrageous government debts? 2. The answer, unfortunately, is that they do not exist.3. Citizens riot in France over insane fuel taxes, central bankers resign in India, markets crash in America, and England's citizens watch their Brexit turn into an overpriced wet noodle.4....Read More
In two short months market psychology has undergone radical transformation Two months ago we warned of October being the month markets have been known to go bump in the night - 1907, 1929, 1987, 1997, 2007, 2008. Sure enough, on October 2 the Dow Jones Industrial closed at 26,828. By the end of the month, it stood at 25,115 - down over 1700 points and nearly 6.5%. Since then stock market psychol...Read More