Author Archives: Fernando Luna

Stocks Tumble, Tank, Roller Over! Whatever, Things Look Really Bad

Global stock markets went to Hell last week. The Shanghai Composite took the biggest shellacking [...]

Data Improves a Bit for the US; Buck Falls for Week; Yuan Depegs

This week the data was mixed. Wednesday JOLTS Job Openings (Jun) missed consensus by 51K. [...]

Friday Ends Another Bad Macro Week–Stocks, Oil and Gold sold for the Buck and Bonds

Monday ISM Manufacturing PMI (July) and ISM Prices Paid missed big and fell from last [...]

GDP Points to a Weak 2 Quarters Leaving FED with NonFarms

Last week was a bad week for the Fed once again as GDP missed big [...]

Markets Spooked Coming into FED and Q2 GDP!

The news last week was the big miss in new homes and the FED leak—stocks, [...]

Inflation Ticks Up, The FED is Hawkish, stocks, bonds and the buck soar while Gold and Oil tank

Last week started with retail sales missing big. Housing numbers came out looking good for [...]

Crude Falls Through Key Support Significant

As I am sure you all know, last week was a nightmare. Greece, China, and [...]

Currencies Hold Up Well After The Greek Disaster

Nothing has changed for the Dollar Index. The move up from the 93.56 is now [...]

The Dollar Holds UP Despite the FED’s Dovish Tone

In general , traders took Yellen’s remarks as dovish for the Buck headed south a [...]

Markets Still Not Sure After the Positive Retail Print

This past week it was good news is bad news for the buck and stocks [...]