One of the best webinars I’ve ever seen. Regardless whether you’re an investor or trader, in this video Jack Bouroudjian covers the major interacting forces acting on the market such as economic reports, treasuries, and yield curve. In addition, Bouroudjian shows us incredible insight into how the markets are structured, interact with each other, and [...]
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First it was Business Week. Then President Obama. Now it is Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Speaking before a group of bankers this past weekend in Jackson Hole [...]
So much for the dog days of summer. The week of August 10-14 promises to be one of this summer’s more pivotal weeks for the capital markets: equity markets will contemplate the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee Statement on Wednesday for clues regarding the strength of the economic recovery and associated monetary policy; the bond [...]
What caused the sudden and precipitous drop? The economic data, once again, was horrendous: the unexpected drop in last Tuesday’s Conference Board Consumer Confidence report provided the preamble; Thursday’s non-farm payroll number showing the US economy lost some 130,000 more jobs than expected proved to be more than any green-shoot theorist bulls (or more importantly for purposes of the ensuing discussion, supplemental liquidity-providing proprietary program traders) could handle.
