THE LEAD: New News Replaces Old News
Seriously now, last week inflation was a hot topic (before Friday anyway) with the release of the Fed's PCE (personal consumption expenditure) index. Inflation...
THE LEAD | Forget Last Week, It’s This Week
Still thinking about last week? Drop it. Forget it. What was HOT last week is NOT this week. Things are moving fast and furious....
THE LEAD | Moving On While Keeping Up
Attention spans are so short. Concerns and hot news topics of just a few weeks ago are so in the past. Gotta move on....
THE LEAD | It’s a Big Week
Really? Not another big week. Well, at least it's this week's big week. Why? This week brings a slew of financial news and announcements. Since...
THE LEAD | New Same 1987?
Can history repeat itself? Or, IS it repeating itself? Specifically, is October 2025 setting up to be the "new" 1987? Every day the similarities...
THE LEAD: And Just Like That…
BOOM!
No more Iran nuclear program. No more nuclear bomb threat. Or not?
The big "bat planes" have had their flyover and all returned safely...
THE LEAD | Pick Your Crisis
Opportunity is knocking. It's not often (like in almost never) that there are multiple crisis choices to be made. Gosh, it's not out of...
THE LEAD | Very Odd Behavior
Odd indeed.
Figuring out the behavior of financial markets is difficult as it is, but the human behavior behind the markets is "challenging." Between...
THE LEAD | Microsoft Cracks Its Own Walled Garden
Publisher Note: Friends, this week we are pleased to offer content for THE LEAD from guest contributor Greg Woolf who regularly publishes content on...
THE LEAD | Financial Markets Being “Played?”
Short answer? Yes.
To say financial markets are "acting weird" would be an understatement. Oh, and in case you wondered, being "played" also means...