Markets are moving higher in risk-on unison after a busy news morning.  A few things to be aware of… The ECB announced its bond buying programme, which will involve OMTs (Outright Monetary Transactions).  Use the Guardian’s liveblog to get up to speed on all the details and reactions here. Also, stateside we got a pleasant…

The ECB is about to save the world today. Or maybe it’ll just be like “fuck it, we’ve had a good run. Let’s go back to sticks and stones and roaring bonfires and horns of mead and dragging chicks by their hair into a wooded glen where none but the chipmunks and sparrows can see…

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My friend Ron DeLegge, Host & Producer of The Index Show, is out with his latest, a hilarious coloring book for boys and girls of all ages to enjoy! Ron explained the reason he created this to me as “There’s a bull market in stupidity on Wall Street and this book is my stimulus package…

With apologies to Young Jeezy aka The Snowman, a down-south rapper with an aspirational flow and a sensitivity to all things recession-related, I’m borrowing his elemental truism about Scared Money’s inability to Make No Money so I can make a handful of points today… I came across this story in the business section at USA…

Rahm Emanuel, likable and appealing as he seems to be, stood on stage at the DNC and told a huge lie within the first few paragraphs of his speech.  He made it sound as if his former boss didn’t blow the biggest opportunity of all time to remove systemic banking risk from our national nightmare……

I’m reading more and more about the Fed’s liquidity trap these days, which is interesting considering the timing – on the probable eve of yet another guns-blazing Fed bond-buying program. The trouble with zero-bound interest rates is that they wreck business models, specifically in the financial industry (insurance companies, lending, investment management, etc).  Which would…

361 Capital portfolio manager, Blaine Rollins, CFA, previously manager of the Janus Fund, writes a weekly update looking back on major moves, macro-trends and economic data points. The 361 Capital Weekly Research Briefing summarizes the latest market news along with some interesting facts and a touch of humor. 361 Capital is a provider of alternative investment mutual funds, separate accounts,…

A lot of guys who run money tactically make some use of the 50-day and 200-day moving average crossovers as their signals to buy or sell