February’s webinar will focus on energy including oil, gas, nuclear/uranium, and related geopolitical events that affect this sector of the market. We’ll be hosting energy expert, Tracy Shuchart, CEO and Founder of Hilltower Resource Advisors on Tuesday, February 13th at 12pm Eastern Time. She started her career in 2005, in finance, at the Chicago Board … Read more
The Federal Reserve surprised the market by leaving the fed funds rate unchanged and indicating its not inclined to lower at the next meeting in March. The market was disappointed, but a better-than-expected manufacturing index with higher-than-expected pricing plus a seemingly hot labor market support the Fed’s decision. There was huge growth in jobs, but … Read more
This piece was originally published on October 13th, 2023. I got a great question today from DKI reader, Eric, who correctly pointed out that it appeared I was claiming that Russian refining difficulties could lead to lower crude prices. The relevant paragraph is from the Energy section of today’s CPI post. I’ve re-read it, and … Read more
This piece was originally published on September 21th, 2023. After oil prices rose to their highest level this year, the sell-side decided to raise price targets. Bank of America thinks crude prices could go above $100 this year. Brent crude is already up from the low $70s to almost $94 today. JP Morgan is “predicting” … Read more
Normally, I don’t provide updates on daily market action, but there’s something important happening today. Saudi Arabia and Russia have extended production cuts for several additional months. The US has tried to buy a tiny amount of oil to begin to replenish the strategic petroleum reserve (SPR), but that keeps pushing oil prices higher. Oil … Read more
I was pleased to be the guest host for last week’s episode of The Last Trade. We discussed Sovereign debt problems, the dangers of holding only fiat, gold, energy, and Bitcoin. Check it out here:
This post originally appeared on April 3, 2023 Market Giving Up Friday’s Gains: Yesterday, we published a piece concluding that the market may have misinterpreted Friday’s PCE report. The NASDAQ, which is more sensitive to interest rate changes than other major indexes, has given up half of Friday’s gains as of the time of this … Read more
Most of the analysis we do at Deep Knowledge Investing is detailed and complicated. People often ask me how long it takes to write a post. The answer is it typically takes 1-3 hours to write something and days/weeks/months of research to know enough to have confidence in my conclusions. Sometimes, things just seem obvious…In … Read more
