Archive for the 'U.S. Government' Category

The 10-Year Plan

Stocks fell again today.  They started up, as per the last few days, but couldn’t maintain the gain.  Stocks are hitting new lows.  Today’s excuse was poor health care companies – probably lamenting the President’s impact on their future. Bonds moved sideways, and maintained their high interest rates.  The Dollar moved sideways. Oil and gasoline [...]

Obama Speech

Stocks went way down today, recovered to positive territory, and ended down 80 points.  Bank worries continued to be a key worry. Bonds lost ground (increase interest rates), as future inflation and supply of bonds weighed on the market The Dollar gain as did  Oil and gasoline (on increased demand recently in gasoline.)  Gold went [...]

Why Are Stocks Going Down?

Stocks fell as much as 200 points today, and ended down 100 points.  We are seeing a meltdown of stocks as people are just full of frustration about the future, and the government’s lack of a “for sure” plan to fix this mess. Bonds were a safe haven again today, as value increased (interest rates [...]

Some Thoughts…

Some corrections/thoughts…. Many of you have been kind enough to point out some errors I’ve made in the last few articles.  Thank you.  I might say that I purposely made those errors to find out if anyone was awake out there, but that wouldn’t be the truth.  In fact, my fingers were faster than my [...]

Bad Banks And Stimulus Predictions

Stocks rose today, but in reality stocks are in a sideways trading range.  Bonds went sideways too. The Euro fell as the inflationary future of Europe is worried about. Oil and gasoline went up slightly. Gold regained a little more of its recent loss. Stock Market Prediction…. At the end of last year I predicted [...]

Transparency

Stocks plummeted today, and bonds fell in value with interest rates going much higher today. The Dollar gained against the Euro, and gold gained back its recent loss. Oil and gasoline went sideways, but gasoline has an ominous upward trend. In the news today….. Unemployment claims are 588,000 for the past week.  This large number [...]

A New President

Stocks fell dramatically on this “Inauguration Day” to below 8000.   Bonds lost ground, but gained half of it back the last couple of hours of trading.  The long duration Treasury Bonds are fighting the low interest rates due to fears of inflation and the supply of new issues coming on the market.  The only [...]

Could Treasuries Be The Next Shoe?

Stocks continued their fall from last week ending down 125 points.  This is just the beginning of the bad news coming out of company earnings announcements. Bonds started to make up lost ground and interest rates fell a little. The Dollar strengthened a little over the Euro, and lost against the Yen.  This just means [...]

Oil Drops $100 In 4 Months

 Stocks gained some of yesterday’s losses – ending up 270 points.  Just trading moving the market today. Bonds continued their record breaking increase in value – but only a little gain today. The Dollar fell a little today, and gold gained back some of yesterday’s loss – based on the stock market movement. Oil and [...]

Transparent Government?

 Stocks moved sideways all day – except the last hour when it went straight down – ending down 224 points.  Stocks are down to where they can easily test their recent lows again.  If they break through, the bottom is way down there somewhere.  Bonds moved up (decreased interest rates) with the vaporizing sentiment about [...]