Investors Place Record Bet that Market Winners Will Keep Winning

    MTUM fund skewed to tech, banking posts biggest weekly inflow     Strategy defies warnings of excess, looming correction By Dani Burger, Bloomberg As U.S. stocks roar into the new year, investors are betting the highest fliers will add more fuel to the overheating market. Over the five days through Friday, investors added $474 million to the iShares Edge MSCI...

Weekly Market Outlook – Week Two of 2018 Was Just as Hot as Week One

With nothing specific to stop them, the bulls were more than willing to keep on chugging as we move deeper into the new year. When all was said and done, the S&P 500 gained 1.5% last week, and is now up 4% since the end of 2017. That's way, way ahead of the usual pace of gains we'd normally see...

Weekly Market Outlook – Week Two of 2018 Was Just as Hot as Week One

With nothing specific to stop them, the bulls were more than willing to keep on chugging as we move deeper into the new year. When all was said and done, the S&P 500 gained 1.5% last week, and is now up 4% since the end of 2017. That's way, way ahead of the usual pace of gains we'd normally see...

Investors quit playing defense as stock market sets string of records

– Short interest for major ETFs is at a nearly five-year low – By Ryan Vlastelica, MarketWatch The going has been good in the U.S. stock market, and investors, perhaps to their eventual regret, don’t seem to expect that to end soon. Amid repeated records for the major indexes, historically low volatility, and a nearly unprecedented length of time since...

Investors quit playing defense as stock market sets string of records

– Short interest for major ETFs is at a nearly five-year low – By Ryan Vlastelica, MarketWatch The going has been good in the U.S. stock market, and investors, perhaps to their eventual regret, don’t seem to expect that to end soon. Amid repeated records for the major indexes, historically low volatility, and a nearly unprecedented length of time since...

No Holes, Shortcomings or Flaws With December’s Jobs Report

On the first Friday of most months we make a point of diving deeper in the employment report. While the number of jobs created and the raw unemployment rate are useful data, they're not the whole story. We look at all the data, even if the mainstream media doesn't. With that as the backdrop, we waited a week before dissecting...

No Holes, Shortcomings or Flaws With December’s Jobs Report

On the first Friday of most months we make a point of diving deeper in the employment report. While the number of jobs created and the raw unemployment rate are useful data, they're not the whole story. We look at all the data, even if the mainstream media doesn't. With that as the backdrop, we waited a week before dissecting...

One Thing Missing From Copper Boom Is Buyers of Actual Metal

Premiums that suggest level of physical demand have stayed low Optimists expect fundamentals to catch up with futures prices By Mark Burton and Susanne Barton, Bloomberg The world economy is taking off, factories are humming again and copper futures prices are jumping. The one thing that’s missing is buyers of the actual metal. Evidence of the anomaly can be seen...

One Thing Missing From Copper Boom Is Buyers of Actual Metal

Premiums that suggest level of physical demand have stayed low Optimists expect fundamentals to catch up with futures prices By Mark Burton and Susanne Barton, Bloomberg The world economy is taking off, factories are humming again and copper futures prices are jumping. The one thing that’s missing is buyers of the actual metal. Evidence of the anomaly can be seen...
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