May 2014

This Week on TRB

Hundreds of CNBC employees gather to ring the closing bell of trade Thursday to celebrate the network’s 25th anniversary. Here were the most read posts on TRB this week, in case you missed them: RIP Record Profit Margins  Time is a Flat Circle 9 Rules of Risk Management  Twitter Twearnings Tweave Twuch Two Twe Twesired Why…

LOL

A blowout April jobs number this morning, 288k vs 215k expected. So of course, Treasurys are spiking.   I totally have a brilliant explanation concocted for this….carry the one…add in eye of newt….factor in Putin… I’ll get back to you.  

Clips From Tonight’s Closing Bell: Jon Taffer Edition

I really had a blast on tonight’s Closing Bell show, mainly because Jon Taffer joined us on the panel for the hour. If you’re not familiar with Jon, he’s one of the most well-known and respected bar and restaurant guys in the country and the star of Spike TV’s Bar Rescue (one of my favorite…

NYSE Margin Debt Falls

It’s funny when there’s a notable monthly drop in margin debt because it is usually an involuntary drop driven by market conditions or even redemptions. I get to laugh now as someone who spent a lot of my twenties on the receiving end of margin calls for speculative client accounts. Very glad to be out…

ETF Flows Bounce Back – Especially EM

via ETF.com, some interesting info on ETF flows during the month of April: Investors poured more than $20 billion into U.S.-listed ETFs in April—a third more than in the entire first quarter—pushing total ETF assets to a record high of $1.762 trillion. The bulk of those assets landed in equities funds, particularly emerging market ETFs…Funds…

The Ten Morning Call Commandments

Brokerages all over the country hold a daily “morning call” to communicate the ideas of the analysts and the priorities of the firm that day. It’s a tradition that’s been going on forever. Nicholas Colas of ConvergEx lays out ten rules for pulling off a morning call meeting flawlessly… *** The list below is our…