DOG News and Press, ProShares Short Dow30 From 09/13/21

Investing should be as unemotional as possible. Unfortunately, the higher the stakes, the more emotions get involved. All of the major banks have been gradually working their way to becoming bears. This is shocking because investment banks are always bullish. Things have probably ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that the government will run out of money by the middle of October, sooner than expected, and that Congress needs to act pronto. With all the hyped-up performative bloviating about the debt ceiling, it’s easy to forget that raising the debt ...

The economic data for the week ending Sept. 3 continues to support our narrative of slowing economic growth. It seems highly unlikely that weaker GDP growth does not negatively impact third quarter and potentially fourth quarter earnings. Should the economy continue to slow as it ...

Monetary and fiscal policy respond to economic conditions, with the appropriate response dependent on the balance of supply and demand in goods and services markets and capital markets. Monetary policy can try to stimulate activity in goods and services markets by lowering the cost of...

With sell signals in place, volume rising, and breadth weak, a retest of the 50-dma early next week will not be a surprise. Deutsche Bank's strategists 'expect an imminent correction' even though they see the S&P 500 rising back around current levels by year-end. With supply c...

The US employment data and the ECB meeting are behind us, and the Federal Reserve, Bank of Japan, Bank of England, and Norway's Norges Bank lie ahead. The general sense one gets by surveying the recent string of data is that economic activity has downshifted. With most of the rece...

The private domestic sector balance increased by over $219+ billion in August 2021, thanks to federal government fiscal support and commercial bank credit creation. The change rate fell though. Credit creation from commercial banks was stronger at $112B+, well up from last month. ...

Near the start of January, I calculated market-implied outlook (calculated from options prices) for SPY in 2021. The outlook was bullish, but the market has surpassed what I expected. I have re-calculated the market-implied outlook for SPY to early 2022. The options market sug...

In general, the economy is still in good shape. Still, there are now some warning signs to take note of. There are bearish developments in multiple charts and in multiple time frames. For further details see: The Markets Are Lining Up For A Modest Move Lower (Technically...

Taxes on stock buybacks are currently discussed in the U.S. The latest proposal is for a 2% excise tax on buybacks. I demonstrate that because of the tax shield effect of the excise tax, depending on the investor's capital gains tax bucket, the effective excise tax rate will be lower....