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Interest rates will not be raised, and isnt this the post janet yellen speech bounce . Well, i wanted to call it the hillary highs, but prior to anything that janet yellen said yesterday, we have had a rally in important areas of the market, and it is going to bear repeat i repeating. The iwm which is the small cap indices is now up off of the lows 25 . You take a look overt at oil which is what we were worried about this time last year and the whole second time, and the oih is up 49 from the lo...

Spp a s p. Are the brexit fears behind us, we ask . Lavin th lebenthal what do you say . Be frank. As summer goes on more headlines, more scares of other countries leaving the european union. The uncertainty the market hates. Taking down a Major Institution like the eu. Were in the clear for now, but i do think this is going to be a choppy summer. Having said that, range bound between 1900 and 2100 for the foreseeable future on the s p 500. Easy to be enthralled by the green arrows. Bond market,...

The important thing is the dow is sitting essentially near highs. Were not getting a large number of breakouts in either the dow or the s p 500. Exxon is at a new high, but this has been a story for the last couple days. Ge is essential there, approximator and gamble are essentially there. I think some of being highpriced names are not moving as much as p. M. Is sitting there, united parcel, illinois tool works, but the defense names have been sitting there for a while, boeing, there are a numbe...

Committed to it, simon. Stability is the first thing that you need, after you lose the bullish momentum you have carried in the marketplace since february, markets dont go straight, bullish to bearish in terms of trends. First thing you want is stability. So hang on. Isnt there a Short Covering element, when youve made so much on the shorts before you get to oh, i dont know necessarily that this was a market that can be described as short, just three days ago. A market that actually was very lon...

On this story. According to sec documents in my possession, documents right here, pierson sold 288,000 shares on june 30th for proceeds of 5. 7 million. That was filed and is publicly known. Then on july 1st, and this appears to be new. The motherload. 4. 1 million shares, with proceeds of 82. 8 million. There was another sale known by now some 411 million shares, total proceeds from all this, 96. 8 million. My panel with me, and kate on the case. Boy, interesting. I dont think the market knew o...

Notion that anybody could get a free pass to american citizenship, but here is the thing, the millions of people have cokochl forward to get right with the law and the policy, and they have been living here for years, too, and decades, and leaving the broken system the way it is, that is not a solution. In fact, that is the real amnesty to pretend that we can deport 11 Million People or building a wall of spending tens of billions of taxpayers money is betting on what is really just factually in...

Todays move ahead had everything to do with fundamentals, yes, fundamentals. Earnings beats, check, healthy ipo, check, good economic data, check. Could it be that this rally has more to do with the fundamentals than the bears even want to admit . So we go to bear dan nathan. Skeptic. I mean, listen, all those things, we had very low expe expectatio expectatioexpec expectati expectations. Had really low expectations as it relates to earnings, and when you look at the ones that actually performed...

Bonds selling off, too, with a yield on the tenyear topping 1. 5 , first time in a couple weeks. Has us wondering whether the early signs of 0 great rotation of under way. Kevin oleary, is that the case . No, i dont think its the case. Why ill hold back, i want to see the rests of the earnings season. I think what will happen, best case, flat on earnings, because usually analysts sandbag 3 . Going in being down 5. 6 year over year. I think well come out flat. Im concerned about forward, because ...

500 take record highs once again yesterday. The nasdaq closing at the highest level of 2016. Overnight in asia, youll see the japanese market was higher by about. 6 . You can see there has been some pressure on stocks. This has come again as this terrorism story unfolds in france the cac is down by about. 6 . The ftse in london is down by. 25 . Weve also been tracking currencies. As the bank of england failed to lower rates as expected yesterday. We have seen a little bit of that play out in the...

Nasdaq declining. We have entered the heart of earnings season. These moment where is the reports are fast and furious with the headlights blaring and free markets all over the place are among the most challenging times for all investors. What makes dealing with this cacophony of earnings so tough . Its subjective. I view the companies as being similar to the way teachers grade tests. We do have the occasional true or false quiz, sometimes multiple choice and the essay. The subjective essay that...