Beyond VIX: 5 more ways to measure, track, and trade volatility
To subscribe to JAM you need to fill in some details below including, ahem, some info on how you'll pay us. A subscription is $199 (although if you're subscribing with one of our special offers it will be lower) for a year for ongoing and continuing access to the...Pre-holiday move to safety starts a little early
With trading volumes already starting to slip–trading in Standard & Poor’s 500 stocks was running about 25% below its average for this time of day at noon today–traders and investors are locking in some gains and seeking safety for the week before Christmas. As of 1 p.m. New York time gold was up for the day and the dollar was down.
At some point, we’ll want to own gold again–for two reasons
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Dollar keeps getting stronger and stronger
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U.S. stocks stabilized today–thanks to better than expected earnings from Citigroup (C) and JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and, well, Friday. The Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index closed up 0.02%. U.S. crude oil benchmark West Texas Intermedite fell 0.24% but remained above $50 a barrel at $50.32. The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF finished ahead by 0.16%
Suddenly gold is paying attention to dollar, interest rates, Fed
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Welcome back to December! Remember when the financial markets thought the Federal Reserve was going to raise interest rates three times or maybe even four times in 2016 and suddenly bank stocks were the thing to own? At least until January when the sector went into a dumpster. Well, the positioning was back today–even if just for a day
Selling Yamana Gold out of Jubak Picks, keeping it in long-term portfolio
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Slosh! Don’t pay too much attention to hedge fund noise
If you want to trade on price trends along with the big boys, go right ahead. Just don’t assume that these very profitable short-term moves have anything to do with fundamental changes in these markets
Will mild selling on downing of Russian warplane by Turkey escalate?
Financial markets in the United States and Europe fell modestly as traders wait to see what happens next after Turkish fighters shot down a Russian war plane near the Turkish-Syrian border.
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