Month: September 2010

TDI Podcast 177 – A Few Simple Hedging Strategies

Guest: Kevin Hoffmann and Andrew discuss ways to hedge portfolio risk if the market turns. Inverse ETFs, options and more. To hedge or not to hedge… that is the question.

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Hold your meetings...

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The Good, Bad and Ugly Unemployment – In Charts

Here they are…. The Charts of the day – Unemployment, sliced and diced. What does this show us?

Well, there were low expectation for anything good out of the private sector. That is one reason that pushed up U.S. markets intiially. But, underlying some of the headlines,...

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Links and Reading for September 2nd

Some of the more interesting and important items for September 2nd :

Ryanair’s O’Leary Ponders One-Euro Toilets, Standing Passengers – Here he goes again….
JPMorgan Said to End Proprietary Trading to Meet Volcker Rule – Come on… No Way
Not To Be Seen: “Less Good” – Remember The “Less Bad” Media...

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Art Cashin: ISM Many Be Revised Down (See Video and History)

This morning, David Rosenberg had a few notes of his own on the ISM numbers. He is skeptical, as he has been for a couple of years now….

Here are his points:

While you were sleeping: Asian equity markets in rally mode, but mixed action in Europe; in the U.S. everyone...

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