Daily Archives: December 19, 2014

Energy companies bounce as the loonie heads south for the winter

As the Great Yellen-dini dazzled with her carefully contorted syntax on Wednesday, aimed at creating inflation out of hot air, the algos went wild for a couple of days and the most shorted stocks (like energy cos in black below) … Continue reading

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Rising greenback weighs on commodities, EM and S&P earnings

As the greenback makes a run to break above 90 on the DXY basket of global currencies (not seen since 2006), emerging markets, commodity prices and US multinational earnings are all feeling the downward pressure. All those assuming that the … Continue reading

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