by JD Lasinger | Jul 14, 2016 | Featured Posts
As quickly as the indices went up, their momentum to keep on going seems to have run out. The unexpectedly positive US job numbers from Friday, catapulted indices all over North America up, but on Wednesday the upswing flattened, and indices like the TSX – on the...
by JD Lasinger | Jul 13, 2016 | Featured Posts
The rally across most main indices continues. It seems that US job growth and the promise of subdued interest rates for a longer period of time have done it. Investors are diving in head first to acquire stock and keep on partying. As a result, gold prices have...
by JD Lasinger | Jul 12, 2016 | Featured Posts
In this era of cheap money, it is not surprising to see stock indices at record highs. Nevertheless, Friday’s job report catapulted the high flying S&P 500 to this point. Investors suddenly turned bullish and started acquiring stock when they saw that the US...
by JD Lasinger | Jul 10, 2016 | Featured Posts
The world economy has shown signs of weakness for more than one year now. The markets have reflected this sense of insecurity. Few assets have been able to weather the storm, and with Brexit fears taking over again after a short lived respite last week, markets have...
by JD Lasinger | Jul 6, 2016 | Featured Posts
The day after the ‘leave’ camp surprised the world markets with a victory that made Brexit a reality, the British Pound plummeted, along with every major stock exchange. A few days later, markets found their footing, returning to a more rational pattern of behavior....
by JD Lasinger | Jul 5, 2016 | Featured Posts
Supply shocks affected the price of oil recently, sending it on an upward trend. A series of attacks in Nigeria and other calamities such as the wild fires in Alberta, helped buoy the price of crude for a while. With the fires under control, terrorist attacks on...
