As we showed recently, single stock open-interest has increased to all-time-high levels, which is why today’s expiry is important for stocks, especially for names with large open interest in at-the-money (ATM) 15-Jan options, […]
US equities futures and global markets shrugged off President Donald Trump’s second impeachment and focused instead on a report on that Joe Biden will unveil a new U.S. $2 trillion stimulus program […]
Among the many “interesting” (a safe word to use in perilous times) signs and portents swirling around us, here are five financial tidbits “of interest.” What do they mean? The answer is of […]
While there is broad consensus that today’s payrolls report will be ugly, with economists expecting a sharp slowdown in December job growth in the U.S. due to the second wave of covid lockdowns […]
The hyperbole from every talking-head on what occurred in DC yesterday could not have been more, well, hyperbolic… from “Pearl Harbor” comparisons to the “darkest day in American history” to calls for […]
Human imagination is the most powerful force in the universe. It is the greatest single thing separating us from other creatures. There is no higher power. Our ability to conceive of a […]
The first trading day of 2021 was, as Peter Schiff put it, “atypical.” In his first podcast of 2021, Peter analyzed the unusual day on Wall Street and explored a significant question: […]
In the later stages of a bull market advance, the financial media and Wall Street analysts start seeking out rationalizations to support their bullish views. One common refrain is “there are trillions of dollars in cash sitting […]
Jessica has written several times about the seeming market anomaly that the S&P 500 rarely posts three or more consecutive +10 percent years. Since 1928 (93 years), it’s happened only 5 times: […]
US equity futures traded flat in the last trading session of the day, set to end a tumultuous year in muted fashion just shy of all time highs alongside global markets which […]
