Posts Tagged ‘ April Econ data ’

Weekly Spectrum: Downside Risk, Econ Data

May 24th, 2010 | By Rob
Weekly Spectrum: Downside Risk, Econ Data

Many of you may be asking yourself, “what’s changed since last week with the EU bailout?” One would think there would surely be some sort of news or development concerning the exact structure of this plan, rumored to be a sovereign debt backstop of $1 trillion USD. Is there surely some plan moving forward?

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Stronger Market Faces Bernanke and Q1 GDP

Apr 26th, 2010 | By Rob
Stronger Market Faces Bernanke and Q1 GDP

U.S. stocks looked unusually strong on Friday as two major factors concerning short term risk in global markets changed dramatically. The stagnant housing market and uncertainty over a viable path to solvency in Greece, which have been weighing heavily on global markets, seem to be less threatening if Friday’s data were judge. Technicals remain extremely overbought in commodities and equities as markets now face Bernanke and Q1 GDP this week.