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Erik T. Long
May 14, 20202 min read
Black Gold Drilling Lower (Again)?
A rerun of the oil market plunge that took the New York Mercantile Exchange’s now expired May crude contract into negative price...
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Erik T. Long
May 13, 20201 min read
Change is in the Air
By Nell Sloane Everything Has Changed Business Insider asked over 200 CEOs about how the COVID-19 crisis has transformed their business....
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Erik T. Long
May 13, 20202 min read
Trade Industry Developments
Investment banks shrink staffs despite higher trading Investment banks shed jobs at the fastest rate since 2014 in the first quarter,...
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Pete
May 13, 20201 min read
From the CME Group
US: MBA Mortgage Applications May 13, 2020 06:00 CDT ActualPrevious Composite Index - W/W Change 0.3% Previous 0.1% Purchase Index - W/W...
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Erik T. Long
May 12, 20201 min read
Medical Madness or Common Sense?
Despite being on the COVID-19 task force, Anthony Fauci and President Trump haven’t always been eye-to-eye on many issues. The latest...
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Pete
May 12, 20201 min read
Take the Good with the Bad
Consumer Prices fell 0.8% as expected driven by the drop in demand for gas, services, and the fall off in airline travel. That is down...
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Erik T. Long
May 8, 20202 min read
Brazilian Real Plummets to New Lows!
By Susan Mathew and Ambar Warrick May 7 (Reuters) - Brazil's real plummeted to new lows on Thursday after the country's central bank made...
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Erik T. Long
May 7, 20202 min read
Et Tu Bloomberg? Bloomberg Tradebook to pay $5 million penalty for undisclosed order routing.
The SEC found that around 6.4 million client orders were routed by three unaffiliated brokers through undisclosed ‘low cost router’...
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Pete
May 7, 20201 min read
Whole Lot of Stuff
US Economic Releases Thursday 7th May 07:30 AM ET Challenger Job Cut Report 08:30 AM ET Weekly Jobless Claims, Export Sales, Atlanta Fed...
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Pete
May 6, 20201 min read
The World of High Finance
The U.S. treasury announces today they will re-issue a 20 Year Bond to Help fund the record borrowing needed this quarter. Not since 1986...
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Pete
May 6, 20201 min read
It's HUMP Day!!!
US Economic Releases Wednesday 6th May 08:15 AM ET ADP Employment Report 08:30 AM ET 30 Year Bond Announcement, 3 & 10 year Note...
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Pete
May 5, 20201 min read
Something New From the CME
5/5/2020 8:00 AM Re-introducing 3-Year T-Note futures on July 13, 2020 In response to client demand for an additional tenor point on the...
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Pete
May 5, 20201 min read
Another Day to Trade
US Economic Releases Tuesday 5th May 08:30 AM ET International Trade 08:55 AM ET Redbook 09:45 AM ET PMI Services Index 10:00 AM ET...
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Pete
May 4, 20201 min read
Kind of wrong... kind of right
I was kind of wrong this morning regarding the grains but not entirely. Wheat was the only market to move higher on the day by 3 cents,...
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Pete
May 4, 20201 min read
It is a New Week
US Economic Releases Monday 2nd May 08:00 AM ET Motor Vehicle Sales 10:00 AM ET Factory Orders 11:00 AM ET Global Manufacturing PMI,...
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Pete
May 1, 20201 min read
Some Light Reading Over the Weekend
A VERY Good Article From CNBC Trump push to keep meatpacking plants open comes as pork producers profit from China trade deal PUBLISHED...
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Pete
May 1, 20201 min read
Futures Deliveries and the Food Supply
All but 2 contracts of Corn was re-delivered and those were held by R.J. O’Brien. So at this point not in very “strong hands.” (I define...
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Erik T. Long
May 1, 20202 min read
Weekly & Monthly Review
General Risk assets are lower to start May – led by AAPL and AMZN post earnings. The actual numbers for those companies were more than...
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Pete
May 1, 20201 min read
Reports and Deliveries
This is the first time I listed the Physical Deliveries in any communication. I like to look at the firms making and taking to try and...
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Pete
Apr 30, 20201 min read
Just Some of the Talk
I am sure you have seen the 3.8 Mil in weekly jobless claims bringing the number of U.S. citizens over 30 Mil. many of which are being...
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