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• Monday Market Movement – Will There Be a Correction?

  

  50%. That's how much the indexes are up since 2019 yet only one sector in the S P 500 has actually grown 50% (Semiconductors) – despite $10 TRILLION worth of... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2021 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• 4,400 Friday – Can Powell Add 100 Points?

  

  Not too impressive. Since we crashed the market last week by closing out some of our longs (in these low-volume markets – it doesn't take much), the S P 500... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2021 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Inflationary Thursday – Chip Prices Rise 20%, Electronics Will Have to Follow

  

  Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM)'s stock is up over 4% this morning as they raise the price of chips 10-20%. TSM is the World's largest chip-maker and inflation is a... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2021 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Wednesday Worries: Durable Goods, Investor Confidence and Business Uncertainty

  

  Durable goods are down 0.1%. That's down from up 0.8% last month. Notice we haven't had big numbers since last Summer and that's only because they measure... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2021 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Toppy Tuesday (Again) – S&P 500 Tests 4,500 (Again)

  

  Here come those tears again. An endless series of low-volume rallies is not enough to get you over a major level on the S P 500 so, once again, we are being... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2021 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Monday Market Movement – Back to Up Again

  

  And up we go – again. What Covid? What Afghanistan? What declining Consumer Confidence? None of this matters to the market yet the healine in today's WSJ is:... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2021 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Monday Market Movement – Wasted Spring

  Nowhere for 3 months. That's where we've gone with Q2 all but completed and that's a shame when we were just kissing all-time highs a couple of weeks ago but... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2021 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• PhilStockWorld June Portfolio Review

  $2,147,243! That's actually DOWN $5,530 since our last review as our Short-Term Portfolio (our hedges) took a pretty good hit on the recent rally. Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2021 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Thrill is Gone Thursday – QE Not Forever?

  

  Rates are going up. Finally it's not a matter of if, but when and that makes a lot of difference for a market that was not even pricing in if. Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2021 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Which Way Wednesday – Fed Edition

  

  14,000 on the Nasdaq. We're actually over what we thought would be the top of our range as the P/E Ratio of the Nasdaq 100 crossed over 40 at 13,000 so 14,000 i... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2021 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Toppy Tuesday – Hedging Ahead of the Fed

  

  What a market! I know it's hard to talk about hedging when the market is doing so well but that's the lesson of Joseph and the Pharoh from the Bible – you have... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2021 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Monday Market Movement – All Quiet Ahead of the Fed Meeting

  

  Fed meeting Wednesday. Until then, nothing is likely to happen and, after that, anything can happen. There are currently rumors that the Fed may begin to gear... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2021 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Friday Fantasy – Infrastructure Paired Back to $1.2Tn with No Tax Hikes

  

  While Biden's away. A bipartisan group of 10 Senators have agreed to $579Bn in additional spending (from the Republican's first offer) over 8 years and, rather... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2021 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Inflationary Thursday – CPI Keeps Going Up

  

  What inflation? That's what the Fed says when confronted with the facts, which showed the CPI over 4% last month and that number is a drastically low estimate o... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2021 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Wednesday Ruling – Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A) Ordered to Cut Emissions by 45%

  

  This is interesting. RDS.A has been ordered by a Dutch Court (home country) to cut emissions by 45% by 2030 – just 8.5 years from now. Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2021 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Triple-Toppy Tuesday – Nasdaq Heads Back to 14,000, Oil Shorts Gain $4,000

  

  Wheee, this is fun! We've been shorting Oil (/CL) Futures at the $69.50 line since last week and we featured that play during last week's Live Trading Webinar. Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2021 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Monday Market Momentum – Still Heading Higher

  

  Up and up we go! Efforts are, of course, being made, to end the quarter on a good note but it's only June 7th, so three more weeks of this ahead. Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2021 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Non-Farm Friday – Is America Working?

  559,000 Jobs. That's what we added in the merry month of May and it's a bit less than the 675,000 expected but still some pretty healthy growth so we can... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2021 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Fallback Thursday – Volatility Picks up Ahead of Payrolls

  

  We're slipping a bit. With global equities locked in a tight range for the past month, investors are on the lookout for any signs that central banks may start t... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2021 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Which Way Wednesday – 4,200 Again Edition

  

  How do we keep ending back at the same spot? Is it a good sign or a bad sign to revisit 4,200 on the S P 500, over and over again? Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2021 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS