Market Look

Stocks rallied nicely on Wednesday helping the Dow Jones Industrial Average and benchmark S&P 500 jump above resistance of their latest range. Before the open, JP Morgan (JPM) reported earnings that beat greatly reduced estimates. Peabody Energy (BTU) filed for bankruptcy protection in the wake of a huge crash in coal prices. Overnight, China said exports beat…

Stocks ended higher on Tuesday, led by a big rally in a slew of energy stocks. Oil prices soared over 4% after news broke that OPEC was closer to freezing production. Gold, silver, oil and steel stocks have soared in recent weeks after pausing to digest the strong rally from the Feb low. Overnight, Italy created a…

Stock Market Overview:  Futures are hugher ahead of Wednesday’s open as investors add to Tuesday’s strong rally. Oil prices surged to a four month high on Tuesday as the U.S. dollar is trading just above a 9-month low. Gary’s Thoughts: Strong Asia…strong Europe…gapping up here. Potential to move out of the 4 week range markets have been…

What about the other side about all the supposed bad earnings reports to come out? We felt it necessary to write to you about something we are reading about every day…and in numerous articles. That is all the talk about the bad earnings that will be reported in the weeks ahead for the past quarter. First off,…

Italian officials and bank executives have agreed to create a €5 billion ($5.7 billion) fund to help lenders that are in quite the trouble. Only one problem…there is about €360 billion of bad loans. There is a lot more where this came from in many other countries. Remember what we have told you, places like Greece were not…

Stocks opened higher but ended near their lows as seller showed up in the afternoon. Before the open, rumor spread that central banks and governments should begin buying bank stocks to boost the market. Meanwhile, the US dollar fell to a fresh 9-month low which sent gold, silver and several other commodities higher. In other news, Goldman Sachs…

We wrote to you this morning about Italy talking about using their money (debt) to buy up their beleaguered bank stocks. We once wrote to you years ago and asked sarcastically “why don’t central banks just buy up the whole f—ing S&P? Well…now comes this: By Nishant Kumar (Bloomberg) — Central bank policy makers in…

“GOVERNMENTS GETTING DEEPER INTO THE MARKETS” April 11,2016 We do not make this stuff up! The first two paragraphs are from this morning: Italian Treasury and central bank officials will meet with executives of major banks, including UniCredit SpA and Intesa Sanpaolo SpA, on Monday to discuss the creation of a fund that would buy…