This is Mrs. Scott Rothbort back helping Scott to publish Today’s My Gut. I can report that Scott is making some progress but he is not up to extracurricular activities such as live appearances and his late-night penning of this commentary. He still saves his energy for the daily grind of trading and performing market […]
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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 27, 2014: Materials Company Stocks Are To Be Avoided
Friday was not pretty. It was the markets’ version of reverse peristalsis. It happens every occasionally. This time around, the causal stimulus was emerging markets anxiety. As I mentioned on Friday morning, it was a time for caution, but not panic. Unless you were 100% in cash before the day began, Mr. Market took its […]
Apple (AAPL), Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold (FCX)My Gut Feeling For Today, January 24, 2014: Emerging Market Worries Begin to Fester
The markets bent but did not break yesterday. The Standard & Poor’s 500 (SPX) at its worst declined over 24 points or 1.34%, only to close off 16.4 points or 0.89%. Initially the raison d’etre for the selloff was attributed to earnings and economic data. However, problems in the emerging markets are beginning to bubble […]
McDonalds (MCD), S&P 500 (SPX)