Posts Tagged ‘interest_rates’


Posted by StockRake on September 15, 2007 in Market Comments

The Most Telegraphed Big Money Signal Ever?

Have investors gone mad? Is there anything to justify a 1700-point rise in the Dow Jones industrial average in just seven weeks? Has the economy improved that dramatically? No, it hasn’t.The real story is that, all along, the economy was a lot stronger than the pundits were telling investors. Reports of the collapse of corporate …

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Posted by StockRake on December 1, 2006 in Trades

Bought A Bunch of QQQ Calls

The NDX is down hard, but ISM manafacturing data came out and the reading was 49.5 which spells contraction since the reading is under 50. That should support the potential for a RATE CUT, not a rate increase. In fact, that data guarantees the FED probably won’t raise interest rates for awhile, unless they want …

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