Obama’s Delivery and Points in His Speech, A+
Last night (Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2009) as Barack answered questions and delivered his message, I was positively surprised at a few of the priorities of…
Still waiting…
Well, for all the talk of a big news-making weekend, we are still waiting for all the details to be released. The Senate came up…
Confusion In the Investment Community, A Personal Experience (Watch the Axe!)
This Saturday morning (Feb. 7, 2009) I found myself dashing up the North Texas Tollway, running slightly late for a 7:30 a.m. Financial Planning Association…
Busy Weekend for Wall Street
For once, Monday may not come fast enough for many investment professionals, with two major announcements set to be made over the weekend or at…
Finally The Possibility of a Wonderful New Investment Tool: The VIX ETN
We have long awaited for a VIX ETN and much to our surprise Barclays has just rolled out two new VIX ETN’s. First in the interest…
Possible Changes in your 401k Deferral Needed: The Even Only Match!
A new and somewhat puzzling phenomenon we have seen this year with several very large corporate companies is an “even only matching policy.” An even only…
2009 Key Market Items to Watch Update from Jan 6, 2009
As an update to our post earlier on items we are watching, we thought it a good time to review our key items from our…
Surprise, Surprise, Surprise… GDP Advance -3.8% Versus Expected -5.5%
Advanced GDP came in at -3.8% which by no means is good, but not nearly as bad as economists had expected. The early part of…
Watching Long Term Interest Rates Closely
The following graph is of the Yield on the 30 Year Treasury. If the line is rising, rates are going up. Even with Fed speaking…
China U.S.A. Relations and Rhetoric…Keep an Eye on Comments!
As we have mentioned several times, Timothy Geitner the new Treasury Secretary recently mentioned “manipulation” concerning Chinese currency. Why are we watching this so closely?…