I have been on the sidelines as far as writing goes, but have been busy as a beaver otherwise, so apologies for not writing sooner. The first quarter rebound continues after taking a one-week hiatus last week from a historic bull run. The equity market got back on its horse this week, despite Boeing (BA); […]
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My Gut Feeling For Today, January 17, 2018: Keeping Us Honest
The markets broke out of the starting gate for 2018 with the Standard & Poor’s 500 (SPX) vaulting past 2,700 to 2,800 before hitting a wave of selling in the middle of Tuesday’s session. Similarly, the Dow Jones Industrials (INDU) vaulted past 25,000 to 26,000 before running into yesterday’s midday bout of selling. Tuesday’s post three-day […]
My Gut Feeling For Today, November 6, 2014: Taking Profits in the Defense Stocks
As I expected, the day after the across-the-board Republican election victory, the markets, that is the S&P 500 (SPX) and Dow Jones Industrials (INDU), rose to new highs. However, defense and aerospace stocks declined, which is contrary to conventional wisdom after Tuesday’s news. As a result, we sold our positions in Raytheon (RTN) which was […]
My Gut Feeling For Today, June 17, 2014: Airlines Ready to be Grounded
It was another teeter totter day – higher open, then sell-off into the red followed by a positive afternoon closing. All told, the bulls won, but by a modest amount. The risk-on stocks led the advance. S&P 500 Up On Nine Consecutive Mondays Despite historical averages, the S&P 500 (SPX) has advanced on nine consecutive […]
My Gut Feeling For Today, January 29, 2014: Yahoo Needs to Monetize Alibaba
The markets continued to try to gain back its land legs with modest advances on Tuesday. After the markets closed in the US, Turkey announced a doubling of its interest rates, sending the Turkish Lira higher and putting a bid into US equity index futures. However, the advance in futures dissipated overnight and turned to […]
Boeing (BA), Yahoo (YHOO)My Gut Feeling For Today January 7, 2014
You might be thinking that the investment news so far this year is that the major indexes have fallen in the first three trading sessions. There is the theory that some belated or deferred selling took place on the first trading day of the year, which has some merit. There is also the fact that […]
Jet Blue (JBLU), ProShares Ultra Short Gold (GLL)