AskSlim Market Week - March, Feb. 28 An analysis and commentary on the financial markets.
Ugly, Tailing 7Y Auction Sees Lowest Foreign Demand In 3 Years The bid to cover dropped to 2.534 from 2.638, the lowest since August 2024, and obviously below the six-auction average of 2.69.
O-I-L-S, Oil Stocks The best buying opportunity in the energy business for the last 20 years was in March 2020. It took immense courage to buy oil stocks.
Will US Treasury Secretary Bessent Send U.S. 10-Year Treasuries Lower This Summer? With the administration’s attempts to suppress borrowing costs, seasonal forces suggest another move lower for yields in the summer ahead.
Financial Markets Report For Wednesday, March 26 In this video, Ira Epstein reviews the activity in the Financial Markets after the day that just ended, Wednesday, March 26.
Solid 10Y Auction Enjoys First Stop-Through Of 2025 The bid to cover jumped from 2.479 last month to 2.588, the highest since December, and just above the six-auction average of 2.57.
Financial Markets Report For Tuesday, March 25 In this video, Ira Epstein reviews the activity in the Financial Markets after the day that just ended, Tuesday, March 25.
Financial Markets Report For Monday, March 24 In this video, Ira Epstein reviews the activity in the Financial Markets after the day that just ended, Monday, March 24.
Inflation Is So Back In 2025 The S&P 500 closed the drop gap opening on March 10.
Weekly Market Pulse: A Risky Plan Tariffs will likely precede any shift to a soft dollar policy that requires cooperation from trade partners for implementation
Snapback Rally And Bouncing Dollar if stocks wanted to tank, they would do so on stagflationary, record bad UoM consumer data or continued tariff news barrage – and that isn't happening,
CoT: What Futures, Hedge Funds Positions Can Tell Us For the second week in a row, the Nasdaq 100 traded in a sideways pattern. Last week, it fell 2.5% but recovered from a 5.2% decline at one time. This week, the tech-heavy index inched up 0.25 percent to 19754. That gain follows four weekly drops.
Technical Market Report For March 22, 2025 Many economists consider the un-inverting of the yield curve a bad sign for the economy.
Financial Markets Report For Thursday, March 20 In this video, Ira Epstein reviews the activity in the Financial Markets after the day that just ended, Thursday, March 20.
Financial Markets Report For Wednesday, March 19 In this video, Ira Epstein reviews the activity in the Financial Markets after the day that just ended, Wednesday, March 19.
Weekly Market Pulse: A Discounting Mechanism For the last 36 months, interest rates and the dollar have been remarkably stable, as has economic growth.
CoT: Who's Buying What, And What It Means Hedge funds' net longs in e-mini S&P500 futures were up 151.1% week over week. to an 18-week high.
Stocks Continue To Melt, More Pain May Lie Ahead The stock market continues to decline to mount, with little sign of letting up anytime soon.
10-Year US Treasury Yield ‘Fair Value’ Estimate - Thursday, March 13 The market premium for the US 10-year Treasury yield ticked up in February to the highest spread since 2008.
Long-Term Treasuries Rally On Revived Recession Forecast The year started out on a solid footing for the economy, and the financial markets were pricing in expectations for sustained economic growth.
Weekly Market Pulse: Stop-N-Go…N-Stop Uncertainty around economic policy is near all-time highs, with most of that focused on trade policy.
Play Both Sides: 3 Bond ETFs to Balance Offense and Defense The current volatility in stocks sets up a buying opportunity in bonds; here are three bond ETFs that capitalize on the potential for higher bond prices
Short-Term Selling Will Become Exhausted Regarding the short-term cycle, the PMO index of stocks showing price momentum has been at the bottom of its range for several days.
CoT: Peek Into Future Thru Futures, Hedge Fund Positioning Non-commercials just switched to net long e-mini S&P 500 futures after remaining net short for 14 weeks in a row. They are likely to do well on this switch – at least near term.
Financial Markets Report For Friday, March 7 In this video, Ira Epstein reviews the activity in the Financial Markets after the day that just ended, Friday, March 7.
