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 […]
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)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)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 […]
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