The FED is on a mission of sorts. Well, maybe it is better tagged as a grand experiment. No matter where the financial problem lies, good ole’ Ben is there with a heap of U.S. Dollars, ready to give them away. Nice guy, huh?
Behind the scenes, it is known that...
In what appears to be a carefully crafted process to refine as much oil as possible, oil inventories continue to surprise. Even as there is clear evidence that gasoline use is down, oil inventories are being suck down.
Obviously the result is an every increasing price of crude while gasoline prices...
US and Canada Short Interest Squeeze: Idea Generation
I asked my friend Constantin over at the Bloomberg headquarters if he had any thoughts on what would be an interesting screen to work up – looking for short-squeeze candidates. Here is what he wrote today:
Companies with high short interest tend to exhibit...
The rotation over the past twelve weeks has been significant. A simple rotation out of what had been working into what had not.
Said another way: Out with the hot, in with the cold. This is a great way to squeeze the shorts and hope that something will start to trend....
Off we go with another exciting earnings season. Alcoa (AA) and JP Morgan (JPM) started things off last week and now is when the avalanche of reports start to appear.
Aside from that (and the disaster(s) in Europe) this is an important week of economics – here and abroad. CPI and...
