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Better than expected PMIs prompted a rip and dip early on as good news ended up as bad news today… as opposed to bad news being bad news yesterday (and good news being good news on Friday)… and just like that all the jobs gains are gone… And despite some ramp efforts, this… [embedded content] […]

2015’s positive return for The S&P 500 was rescued at the last second… Because nothing says “efficient markets” like a last second VIX panic-selling to jam S&P up 3 points into the close… and save the green close for the year… Close up it all started exactly one minute before the cash close… Keeping the […]Read More

Submitted by Thad Beversdorf via FirstRebuttal.com, I keep hearing that the past 6 or 7 years in equities is just part of an even longer term secular bull market.  And it strikes me very curious that investors continue to pay these fee based money managers and chief market strategists who continue to sell this theory.   Let […]Read More

WTI’s ‘mysterious’ spike into the NYMEX close extended after hours (almost as if someone knew something). Inventories drewdown 4.6mm barrels according to API (drastically less than the expected 2.85mm build). This is the biggest weekly draw since Jan 1. Cushing was expected to see a build of 100k (after 2 weeks of draws) but saw […]Read More

That San Francisco, ground zero of the second tech – this time private (and currently bursting) – bubble, has a housing market that is “just a little frothy” is no surprise to anyone, but even we had to chuckle when we saw this billboard making the twitter rounds. As Marketwatch notes, real estate is so […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday urged the people and Government of Burundi to explore dialogue in resolving the current political differences in the country. Receiving the former Burundian President, Mr. Pierre Buyoya, at the State House, President Buhari said Nigeria would continue to support peace processes in the continent through the African Union (AU), which […]

George Egbuchulam was a socially active and intelligent young man. I don’t know him personally but a number of my trusted friends who knew him gave a very good account of him. In 2012, his friends and associates launched a fundraising campaign to help raise five million naira (N5,000,000) required for his kidney transplant surgery […]

The war against Boko Haram continues in Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari argued on Tuesday that ending insurgency in Africa will require stronger collaboration and commitment from governments, financial institutions and security agencies. That collaboration will help track the sponsorship of terrorist activities, the President said during a farewell audience at the State House in Abuja […]

After trying, unsuccessfully and many times, to stop his corruption trial, Nigeria’s embattled Senate President, Bukola Saraki, said on Tuesday “he is glad his trial before the Code of Conduct Tribunal on asset declaration in 2003 has finally commenced”. Mr. Saraki is being tried over false declaration of assets and is also facing allegations of massive corruption after […]Read More

Nigeria’s defence headquarters said on Tuesday that “in line with the Federal Government’s commitment to the war against insurgency in the North East and in furtherance of its efforts to rehabilitate and reintegrate surrendered and repentant Boko Haram terrorist members, the Defence Headquarters has established rehabilitation camp in an Exercise known as Operation SAFE CORRIDOR”. […]Read More

The Federal Government has been asked to expedite action on the construction of the 260-kilometre super highway, and Bakassi Deep Seaport both in Cross River State. Governor Ben Ayade while discussing with the Head of Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita who was on a courtesy visit, stated that his administration desired that the […]