Folks, as you may have noticed, The Jack B. Show took a hiatus last month. We’ve retooled some things, made some great additions to the program and I’m proud to say we’re back with a new and improved daily podcast, which you can get on iTunes and right here at TheJackBShow.com. I’d like to take [...]
Folks, the bond vigilantes have moved their focus from Greece to Italy. Italian bonds slumped, driving 2-, 5-, 10- and 30-year yields to euro-era records after LCH Clearnet SA raised the deposit it demands for trading the nation’s securities. This has caused a global margin call that’s resulted in liquidation of everything—stocks, commodities, etc. The [...]
Folks, there is global selloff taking place, and I have to tell you, this one caught me by surprise. I’m usually the one waiting for that thing that comes out of left field, but I definitely didn’t expect this. Right now, it’s looking like all bets might be off for that year-end melt-up scenario I’ve [...]
Folks, we’re coming up on the end of what has been an exceptionally strong month. In the last few weeks, we’ve seen tremendous moves in equities—the Dow shot up more than 9%, the NASDAQ more than 11% and the S&P more than 10%. After a run like that, we want to see the market stop [...]
Folks, the market opened up this morning with a bang. One of the reasons for this is the $1.3T bailout package they’re talking about over in Europe, which would take care of much of what’s ailing their sovereign financial institutions. I’ve mentioned quite a few times that the Europeans have slowly been moving from denial [...]
Folks, while we’ve seen the market moving almost straight up over the last eight or nine sessions, it still seems like it’s trying to figure out what’s next. In the S&P, we’ve tested the upper end of the range, up around that 1215 level, but have yet to penetrate. And if you were to overlay [...]
Folks, Alcoa is scheduled to report its Q3 numbers after the markets close today, unofficially kicking off earnings season. I mentioned yesterday how I believe that another 2008 has been unnecessarily priced into things, so I’m excited to see just how much the lowering of expectations will cost the market as far as the price-earnings [...]
Folks, I love it when we start out a week in the green. Though we may find out that the markets are a little illiquid today due to the Columbus Day holiday, everything is on fire early in the session. If you’re looking for the reason behind this bounce, look no further than Europe. Although [...]
Folks, so far in today’s session, the markets are trading mixed. This comes after a run-up of around 80 handles in the S&P over the last three days that has helped to restore a little confidence. So, too, did a better-than-expected jobs number this morning—nothing to jump up and down about, but considering the obstacles [...]
Folks, as I write this, the yield on the 10-year is 1.7%, and the reason is because there is a ton of confusion out there in the marketplace. So much, in fact, that people are willing to go into a net-negative interest rate situation (at least for the short term) because of the uncertainty with [...]