MORNING BID – Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown
By David Gaffen One day before the key jobs report that will likely paint yet another muddled picture of the current economic state, it's the bond market that's gotten more dynamic and interesting than...
View ArticleWork work work work work!
By David Gaffen As Abraham Simpson would put it, “that’s a job report you can set your watch to.” Overall growth came in a bit better than expected, with job growth at 248,000 and the unemployment rate...
View ArticleDollar bulls, equity bears
By David Gaffen The preparation for tighter U.S. monetary policy is showing up in markets in a number of areas, most notably through the appreciation of the dollar which has a greater affect on GDP...
View ArticleBad for the Glass
By David Gaffen Beware of companies tying their fortunes to one company – something both the debt and equity holders of GTAT Advanced Technologies learned painfully on Monday, when the company filed...
View ArticleFive and Five
By David Gaffen Just when the market thought it was out, it got pulled back in. The Federal Reserve will release its minutes later in the day that details what it was thinking during its most recent...
View ArticleSpeak softly, and carry a big helicopter
By David Gaffen Days like Wednesday are the ones that remind investors why the Federal Reserve is what it is, and how some believe the other world central banks cannot compete, even as some expect the...
View ArticleSimple Tricks and Nonsense
By David Gaffen Heading into the end of a violent week and ahead of a slew of earnings reports, the market has swung from one extreme to another, as the average daily move in the S&P 500 rises...
View ArticleChips and dip
By David Gaffen The focus as we head into this week is earnings, with about 10 percent of the S&P 500 set to report results. That represents about 19 percent of the market capitalization, with...
View ArticleBuyers get out of the way
By David Gaffen Time to sit up and pay attention. Monday’s end-of-day regurgitation of 100,000 futures contracts in a five-minute span around 3:30 p.m. (1930 GMT) would have been more nerve-wracking...
View ArticleThe cage is full
By David Gaffen The equity market stabilized on Tuesday but only just barely – a 0.16 percent gain on the S&P 500 is nothing to write home about – but that the market bounced off support levels...
View ArticleEbola and market pressures
By David Gaffen There’s a glut of various stresses operating in the markets right now: Europe’s inability to get out of its own way, the sharp fall in oil prices that probably says more about supply...
View ArticleTurn it off, like a light switch
By David Gaffen We may be seeing some sort of return to calm, at least on some levels. General Electric’s results have futures moving higher – the stock is up 3 percent in premarket action – and...
View ArticleThem apples
By David Gaffen Apple ain’t what it used to be, at least in terms of how investors see it. That is probably a decent thing for those who still believe in the growth story. The company, which reports...
View ArticleStill feeling the fear trade
By David Gaffen Fear remains in the markets and it is being tested again following the diagnosis of a New York-based doctor with the Ebola virus. Even though there are just nine documented cases of the...
View ArticleRousseff and the damage done
By David Gaffen Few political developments in the last several months have been more binary than Brazil’s presidential election. It has been more polarized than the Federal Reserve, the European...
View ArticleWe come to praise QE, not to bury it
By David Gaffen So, that’s it. Seven years and $4.4 trillion later, the U.S. Federal Reserve will exit quantitative easing, despite what a few Fedsters have said about the possibility of QE4. Let’s...
View ArticleI’m just a bill…
By David Gaffen This week is chock full of events to keep investors interested, be it in election day this Tuesday or jobs data on Friday. It’s hard to escape the notion that the United States may be...
View ArticleRadio-free Europe
By David Gaffen Election Day having come and gone, attention in markets turns to Europe ahead of the results of Thursday’s European Central Bank meeting. At the latter, the roaring of terrible roars...
View ArticleMy dinner with The Hulk
By David Gaffen Walt Disney Co headlines the day’s earnings, and its eagerly anticipated third-quarter report is likely to illustrate how one company can benefit from some unique content that outpowers...
View ArticleThe Dendreon Decline
By David Gaffen Some bankruptcies are utter surprises – like GT Advanced Technologies earlier this year – but often, they come after a company has been circling the drain for a while. One such case...
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