– By Fred Dunlap – NOTE: See Fred’s 1:08am Update Having your third adult beverage? Out at the movies or making the most of that Netflix subscription? Or might you be packing for that week of vacation you have been planning over the 4th of July holiday? No matter what your activity, at that same […]
Living and Working in a Nitroglycerin Factory
– By Fred Dunlap – Sudden explosions and flying glass are just another day when you work in a nitroglycerin factory. Protective eye wear is a nice precaution from the glass shrapnel…or the dust that comes from the reverberations of the building that has just been shaken by the blast. Hard hats? They might be […]
Saving Face on the Streets of Beijing
– By Fred Dunlap – One week after jacking up tariffs on China, President Trump took another aggressive step, one which may make the tariff hike look mild. In an executive order, Trump declared a national emergency relating to threats against information and communications technology and services in the United States. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross […]
Trump’s Tariff Gambit
By Fred Dunlap At midnight last night Trump dropped the hammer on the Chinese, raising 10% tariffs to 25% on $200 billion in Chinese exports. Markets have been coping with this possibility all week, alerted (as usual) by a Trumpian Tweet which landed on every smart phone last Sunday. Was it a warlike move? Or […]
On the Surface…
By Fred Dunlap The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq closed at or near all-time highs on Friday, and the Dow stands within a smidgen of making a similar statement. Equity prices are back to where they were in early October…as if the late December carnage never happened. Worries of a hawkish Federal Reserve have vanished. […]
April’s Fools
– By Fred Dunlap – The first quarter of 2019 is now in the books. Equity prices have surged 13 percent, the best Q1 performance since 1998. But should we hold the applause?
Technically Speaking, I’m Undecided…
– By Fred Dunlap – This newsletter will be a bit more brief, my friends. The markets hover tonight at vulnerable levels, grappling with technical resistance thresholds. Bullish buying has been continually rebuffed (now five times in six months) as investors have attempted to break through the S&P’s 2820 technical barrier. In the eleven days […]
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