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09/02/2016

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01/15/2016

2016 is the year to be very cautious on U.S. stocks: Money Manager…!

It’s been a rough start to the year for stocks, to say the least. Despite Thursday’s rally, the Dow Jones Industrial is still down about 6% for the year.
But has the start to 2016 set the tone for the rest of the year or can investors look forward to the markets making a turnaround?
“I would be more cautious for the next few months,” said John Merrill, CEO of Tanglewood Wealth Management, which has $830 million in assets under management.
The money manager said his firm rebalanced its portfolio at the end of 2015 and is “more defensive—we cut our positions by about 6 percent equity in the U.S. and basically rebalanced a little bit toward Europe and Japan.”
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/2016-is-the-year-to-be-very-cautous-on-u-s--stocks--money-manager-195908368.html

Despite Thursday’s rally, the Dow Jones Industrial is still down more than 5.5% for the year. John Merrill, CEO of Tanglewood Wealth Management, warns investors to be cautious.

01/12/2016

Trader bets $6.5M against this hot sector…!

Dan Nathan noted a bearish trade where someone spent $6.5 million on a bet that the ETF will fall as much as 18 percent by the middle of the year.

Specifically, that trader closed an existing bearish position in order to purchase 30,000 of the June 69/61 put spreads for $2.10.

When it comes to the market trends so far in 2016, what was once hot is suddenly not.

The consumer discretionary (NYSE Arca: XLY)sector, which was the best-performing sector in 2015 thanks to the outperformance from high fliers like Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Nike (NYSE: NKE), McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) and Starbucks(NASDAQ: SBUX), has fallen 4 percent in the last six trading sessions.

According to one trader, the volatility will continue in the space throughout the year.

"We know consumer discretionary is heavily loaded with Amazon, Nike, Starbucks and a lot of names that perform very well, but the [XLY] ETF [that tracks the sector] is now [nearly] 10 percent from those 52-week highs," Dan Nathan told CNBC's "Fast Money " on Monday.

Dan Nathan noted a bearish trade where someone spent $6.5 million on a bet that the ETF will fall as much as 18 percent by the middle of the year. Specifically, that trader closed an existing bearish position in order to purchase 30,000 of the June 69/61 put spreads for $2.10.

Buying a put spread is a bearish strategy where someone will purchase a put and then sell a lower strike put against it to offset the cost. ...The goal is for the stock or ETF to fall to the put that you are short or in this case to $61 by June expiration.

"I think that this is likely not an outright bearish bet but more of a protection play," said theRiskReversal.com founder. "If you look at a one-year chart you'll see a bounce at $74, which is good support," he added.

Consumer discretionary was the best performing S&P 500 (INDEX: .SPX) sector midday Tuesday, up nearly 1 percent.
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01/07/2016

Thu, Jan 7, 2016, 2:12pm EST - US Markets close in 1 hr and 48 mins

Chinese investors bicker and play cards as market burns…!

By Patti Waldmeir in Shanghai8 hours ago

Elderly investors groused about who to blame for falling share prices, played cards and drank tea in the public trading halls of Beijing and Shanghai stock brokerages as they clustered beneath frozen or blank screens.
"It's good for us to get together and complain together," said an investor who gave his surname as Feng but preferred to go by "a heartbroken Chinese investor".
Many of the bickering retirees are regulars. For them, communal trading halls function as social gathering holes as well as places to buy and sell stocks - and to carry their sometimes voluble arguments out into the streets.
On Thursday they had more reason than usual to gripe: trading had barely begun before it was cut short when a 7 per cent plunge triggered circuit breakers....Be Blessed with Bounty to Use & Share Generously ...!

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01/06/2016

Futures trim losses after data; Dow futures still off triple digits…!

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a sharply lower open on Wednesday, weighed by declines in oil prices, continued concerns about China and fresh geopolitical worries from news out of North Korea.

Dow futures fell 300 points just before 8 a.m., ET, and traded about 280 points lower after morning data reports.

In currency markets, the U.S. dollar held a touch higher against major world currencies. The euro traded near $1.074 and the yen was at 118.54 yen against the greenback.
Overnight, the Chinese yuan plunged to a five-year low in offshore trading, sharply widening the gap with the mainland-traded yuan. ...Be Blessed with Bounty to Use & Share Generously ...!

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U.S. stock index futures pointed to a sharply lower open on Wednesday, as Brent crude oil traded around an 11-year low.

01/04/2016

Dow set for triple-digit losses amid China sell-off…!

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a sharply lower open on Wall Street Monday, the first trading day of 2016, amid a sharp sell-off in Chinese stocks and heightened geopolitical tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Dow futures fell over 300 points, while S&P and Nasdaq futures tumbled about 35 and 93 points, respectively.

Feeble manufacturing surveys in China revived concerns over the slowdown in the world's second largest economy. ....Fresh manufacturing PMIs on Monday showed a fall to 48.2 in December, from 48.6 in November, contracting for a 10th month and coming in below a Reuters poll forecast for 49.0.

The distinctly risk-off mood was highlighted as the Shenzhen Composite had its worst day since early 2007, closing down 8.2 percent. ...The Shanghai Composite (Shanghai Stock Exchange: .SSEC)ended 6.86 percent and trading on both exchanges was temporarily halted as the authorities implemented a "circuit breaker" for the first time.

In Europe, the pan-European STOXX 600 (STOXX: .STOXX) was down over 2.8 percent in morning trade with Germany's DAX (XETRA: .GDAXI) slumping over 4 percent.

Meanwhile, rising tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia provided little risk premium to oil prices on Monday. ...Prices had moved higher after a breakdown in diplomatic ties that could still lead to supply restrictions in the Middle East. ....Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic ties with Iran over the weekend after Iranian protesters stormed Saudi Arabia's embassy in Tehran Sunday following Saudi Arabia's ex*****on of Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr on Saturday.

Back in the U.S., a PMI manufacturing index is due at 9:45 a.m. ET and a ISM manufacturing Index is due at 10 a.m. ET. ....San Francisco Fed President John Williams will be speaking on the implementation of macroprudential policies by central banks at the AEA Annual Meeting in California at 5:30 p.m.

The event in San Francisco is on the minds of investors as the pace of interest rate hikes remain in focus. ...Loretta Mester, president of the Cleveland Fed, told Reuters in an interview Sunday that she did not need to see clear evidence of inflation to back more policy tightening after the Fed's initial rate hike in mid-December.

—CNBC's Patti Domm, Arjun Kharpal and Saheli Roy Choudhury contributed to this report.

Dow set for triple-digit losses amid China sell-off…!

By Matt Clinch 26 minutes ago Jan. 4th 2016

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a sharply lower open on Wall Street Monday, the first trading day of 2016, amid a sharp sell-off in Chinese stocks and heightened geopolitical tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Dow futures fell over 300 points, while S&P and Nasdaq futures tumbled about 35 and 93 points, respectively.
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12/31/2015

REGARDLESS of your favor or disdain of Jim Cramer, he brings KEY CONCEPTS 4 U HERE …!

Cramer: Beware funds trying to steal your money…!

A. ..Cramer recommended that the best strategy is for an investor to manage their own portfolio of individual stocks.

B. .."You want a cheap, low-cost fund that mirrors the market as a whole… Standard & Poor's 500 (INDEX: .SPX)

C. ..As for ETFs, these are bad news, too, for those who are not market pros or managing a portfolio of individual stocks. Many ETFs rebalance every day, which can beat down any long-term performance.

One exception is the GLD (NYSE Arca: GLD) ETF, as Cramer thinks of it as a simple way to play gold. But, in general, Cramer does not recommend playing around with ETFs.

D. .. "At the end of the day, I think a cheap S&P 500 index fund is the least bad way to passively manage your money—better than the vast bulk of actively managed funds,"

Jim Cramer's head is spinning with all of the options out there for mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). How the heck are investors supposed to know which ones to invest in when there are so many of them?

They don't get paid for delivering performance, they collect a fee from investors regardless of the amount of money they make for their client. The amount of money they make depends on the size of assets that are under management. That means their biggest incentive is not for an investor to do well; it is how much of your money they can bring in.

Why? Because these managers don't get paid for delivering performance, they collect a fee from investors regardless of the amount of money they make for their client. The amount of money they make depends on the size of assets that are under management. That means their biggest incentive is not for an investor to do well; it is how much of your money they can bring in.

To make matters worse; mutual funds also charge some of the highest fees in the business.

Cramer recommended that the best strategy is for an investor to manage their own portfolio of individual stocks. But for those who do not have the time or do not want to do so, Cramer has a few tips to invest in mutual funds.

"You want a cheap, low-cost fund that mirrors the market as a whole. One that mimics the Standard & Poor's 500 (INDEX: .SPX)," the "Mad Money" host said. "Index funds have ultra-low fees, and with an S&P index fund, you've got a vehicle that will let you participate in the strength of the stock market without having to spend the time picking individual stocks."

As for ETFs, these are bad news, too, for those who are not market pros or managing a portfolio of individual stocks. Many ETFs rebalance every day, which can beat down any long-term performance.
One exception is the GLD (NYSE Arca: GLD) ETF, as Cramer thinks of it as a simple way to play gold. But, in general, Cramer does not recommend playing around with ETFs.

"At the end of the day, I think a cheap S&P 500 index fund is the least bad way to passively manage your money—better than the vast bulk of actively managed funds," he added.
Cramer thinks an investor can beat the performance of an index by picking the stocks themselves. However, if you are not up for that task, steer clear of managed mutual funds and ETFs.

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Cramer: Beware funds trying to steal your money…!

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12/24/2015

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12/18/2015

Dow drops more than 350, stocks lower for week as oil slides…!

The 3rd Friday of every March, June, September, and December is quadruple "witching…!

"You can't dismiss the quadruple witching. It begins to affect market volatility and volume. You also have a backdrop for the market that has not been as healthy as you want to see it," said Quincy Krosby, market strategist at Prudential Financial.

The third Friday of every March, June, September, and December is quadruple "witching," the expiration of three related classes of options and futures contracts, along with individual stock futures options.

The S&P 500 fell more than 1.5 percent, with financials plunging 2.5 percent to lead all sectors lower.

The Nasdaq composite declined about 1.6 percent to close below the psychologically key 5,000 level. Apple (AAPL) ended about 2.8 percent lower.

The U.S. dollar declined more than half a percent against major world currencies, with the euro near $1.087 and the yen at 121.29 yen against the greenback in the close.

Treasury yields edged lower, with the 2-year yield (U.S.:US2Y) at 0.95 percent and the 10-year yield(U.S.:US10Y) at 2.20 percent.

"The market basically has been going back, reverting to where it was before (the Fed)," she said. Low "oil prices has been difficult for the market to accept."

U.S. crude oil futures for January delivery, which expire Monday, settled down 22 cents, or 0.6 percent at $34.73 a barrel for a 2.5 percent decline for the week.

The February contract settled down 21 cents at $36.06 a barrel. Baker Hughes said oil rigs rose by 17, after four straight weeks of decline.

The Dow transports ended more than 2 percent lower after hitting a fresh 52-week low in intraday trade.

"In the context of the Fed we've removed some uncertainty. There's still some uncertainty about earnings going forward and you're experiencing that with some volatility in market pricing," said Timothy Hopper, chief economist at TIAA-CREF.

The third Friday of every March, June, September, and December is quadruple "witching," the expiration of three related classes of options and futures contracts, along with individual stock futures options.

"Options expiration typically involves more volume but you actually see more of the selling the Wednesday or Thursday ahead of the expiration. Oftentimes you will have a little volatility (the day of) but not always more selling. I think the selling is due to low oil prices (this morning)," said Randy Frederick, managing director of trading and derivatives.

"The December (expiration) is typically the biggest expiration," he said. ...High-frequency trading accounted for 49 percent of December's daily trading volume of about 7.85 billion shares, according to TABB Group. During the peak levels of high-frequency trading in 2009, about 61 percent of 9.8 billion of average daily shares traded were executed by high-frequency traders.

Gold futures for February delivery settled up $15.40 at $1,065.00 an ounce.
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11/30/2015

Fed to take up 'too big to fail' emergency lending curb …!..
As the financial crisis intensified in 2008, the Fed invoked its little-used emergency lending power to stave off the failure of AIG and Bear Stearns, and help other "too big to fail" companies including Citigroup and Bank of America ...
The Fed also enacted a series of more general emergency programs, in all providing $710 billion in loans and guarantees. Those programs were separate from the much larger Fed asset and bond purchases known as quantitative easing...
The loans have been repaid and the guarantees ended, ultimately earning the Fed a net profit of $30 billion, according to a September Congressional Research Service review...
However the effort was criticized as overreach, arguably important in limiting the crisis but also not clearly in line with the intended use of the Fed's emergency authority. ..
The Fed routinely lends money to banks on a short-term basis to smooth the operations of the financial system. That is part of why it exists.

http://news.yahoo.com/fed-too-big-fail-emergency-lending-curb-050712428--business.html

11/19/2015

"A slowing China redistributes global economic activity through the commodity channel as much as dampening it," lead economist Adam Slater wrote in the report.


http://finance.yahoo.com/news/hard-landing-china-could-shake-160004416.html

"A slowing China redistributes global economic activity through the commodity channel as much as dampening it"

11/18/2015

Be prepared to NOT have available "stop orders" and "good till cancelled orders" …!

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/nyse-eliminate-stop-orders-february-234350230.html