Articoli con tag : stocks

This Time There Are Differences

A cura di Walter Snyder, Swiss Financial Consulting The S&P has topped January highs. Investors who bought into the dip have done well. Now that the present recovery is the longest on record and the Fed is still set on raising interest rates, many observers reckon that the market could go even h ...

Stocks Down, Bonds Up

A cura di Walter Snyder, Swiss Financial Consulting This Newsletter advised against investing in bonds because the interest rates were simply too low. The risk was too high that the price of the bond would fall as soon as higher interest rates would come. What has happened is that the Fed has raised ...

Up and Up

A cura di Walter Snyder, Swiss Financial Consulting The stock markets are still setting record highs, and the price of crude oil has gone over US$ 60 per barrel. Opinions are divided on whether the surge in oil prices will be sustained or fall back. There are various factors influencing the price li ...

Stock Market Lessons Learned in 2017

A cura di John Reese, Ceo di Validea Capital Management Over the past twelve months, we’ve seen the bull market continue to trudge ahead with highs in many U.S. indexes and growth in various sectors and industries. With the news of major tax reform comes optimism for continued corporate earnings s ...

Traders, beware!

A cura di Walter Snyder, Swiss Financial Consulting The last few days have seen some slight losses on the part of the FAANG stocks, which the media appear to have greatly exaggerated as if it was something extraordinary that the market could not continue its upward trend and have Tesla quickly reach ...

Financial markets: this time is really different

A cura di Walter Snyder, Swiss Financial Consulting This Newsletter has repeatedly mentioned various aspects of the current global financial situation with reference to enormous sovereign debt, zero and negative interest rates, the Fed`s interest rate rise policy, inflated equity prices, market mani ...

Sell high, now!

A cura di Walter Snyder, Swiss Financial Consulting The last Newsletter predicted the arrival of the Renminbi in grand style and the penultimate number underlined the bond rout and the fact that the US Dollar is overvalued. The huge American national debt has been repeatedly mentioned as well as the ...

Cauldron burn and cauldron bubble

A cura di di Walter Snyder, Swiss Financial Consulting In the last two months the global geopolitical situation has definitely worsened as the central bankers pursue their ZIRP and NIRP policies by adhering to financial repression and in some cases, as in Europe and Japan, with vigorous QE acquisit ...

Great Bond Market Expectations

di Walter Snyder, Swiss Financial Consulting The Fed has been procrastinating with raising interest rates in the hope that financial markets will price in the upcoming increases in the cost of money. Near-zero interest rates and lots of liquidity thanks to QE have been the tools with which the Fed w ...