Financial Review

Go Figure


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Wall Street rallies – go figure. Est-ce que Google a un problème d’impôt? Exxon has a problem with its own shareholders. Deere has a problem renting out tractors. Financial Review by Sinclair Noe for 05-24-2016.   DOW + 213 = 17,706 SPX + 28 = 2076 NAS + 95 = 4861 10 Y + .02 = 1.86% OIL + 1.02 = 49.10 GOLD – 21.30 = 1227.90   Yesterday, Wall Street couldn’t figure out which way to go; today stocks rallied for their best day since March 11. The S&P 500 rallied back above its 50 day moving average; we’ll have to see if it can hold on. What was behind the rally? Who knows? Jeffrey Gundlach, CEO of DoubleLine Capital, said the rally feels like a short squeeze and characterized U.S. stocks as “dead money.” Gundlach says the market is not healthy and earnings have come in weak. On the Federal Reserve, Gundlach says the odds of a rate hike in June are 50-50, and it is Janet Yellen’s opinion that matters the most.   Expectations are rising for a rate hike next month after Philly Fed President Patrick Harker reinforced the central bank’s message that it’s getting ready to act now that the U.S. economy has recovered from a weak winter. Harker says he “can easily see the possibility of two or three rate hikes over the remainder of the year,” he told an audience in Philadelphia. “If the data comes in… I think a June rate increase is ...
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Financial ReviewBy Sinclair Noe