Kirk's Market Thoughts

A very sane blog post! The year-of-year GDP figur...

2012-04-30T20:10:29.171-07:00

A very sane blog post!

The year-of-year GDP figures starkly show how government spending during a slowdown can help to prevent a much worse slowdown from happening. Unlike the austerity being practiced in Europe.

Interesting that Obama made a statement against raising the debt ceiling during the last administration. That was actually in the middle of the best time for fixing

IBD Confirmed uptrend However, it wasn&...

2012-04-26T06:54:40.500-07:00
IBD Confirmed uptrend

However, it wasn't the Nasdaq that confirmed the market's new uptrend. That feat came courtesy of the S&P 500.

The large-cap index made a follow-through as it rallied 1.4% on the 11th session of a new rally attempt. It had posted a near-term low on April 10. On Monday, the 500 got smacked hard, falling as much as 1.4%, but it didn&

xETFs means "not counting ETFs"

2011-06-27T12:39:33.446-07:00
xETFs means "not counting ETFs"

what does xETFs mean?

2011-06-27T12:21:50.916-07:00
what does xETFs mean?

Kirk, I saw the video and heaard the words, but p...

2011-06-15T21:21:35.377-07:00
Kirk,

I saw the video and heaard the words, but please be careful using clips from this group.

Dennis

Weekly Fund Flow Data for 04/27/2011 Equity Fu...

2011-04-29T06:45:05.351-07:00
Weekly Fund Flow Data for 04/27/2011

Equity Fund Inflows $5.1 Bil;
Taxable Bond Fund Inflows $3.2 Bil
xETFs -
Equity Fund Inflows $547 Mil;
Taxable Bond Fund Inflows $2.3 Bil

ExETFs—For the week ended 04/27/2011 all Equity funds report net inflows totaling $0.547 billion, with Domestic Equity funds reporting net inflows of $0.410 billion and

Weekly Fund Flow Data for 04/20/2011 http://www...

2011-04-22T09:01:53.446-07:00
Weekly Fund Flow Data for 04/20/2011
http://www.lipperusfundflows.com

Equity Fund Outflows -$816 Mil;
Taxable Bond Fund Inflows $2.9 Bil
xETFs -
Equity Fund Inflows $2.3 Bil;
Taxable Bond Fund Inflows $2.2 Bil

ExETFs—For the week ended 04/20/2011 all Equity funds report net inflows totaling $2.312 billion, with Domestic Equity funds reporting

Weekly Fund Flow Data for 04/13/2011 http://www...

2011-04-16T07:50:12.407-07:00
Weekly Fund Flow Data for 04/13/2011
http://www.lipperusfundflows.com

Equity Fund Inflows $1.3 Bil;
Taxable Bond Fund Inflows $2.4 Bil
xETFs -
Equity Fund Inflows $1.4 Bil;
Taxable Bond Fund Inflows $2.5 Bil

ExETFs—For the week ended 04/13/2011 all Equity funds report net inflows totaling $1.390 billion, with Domestic Equity funds reporting net

The trick for the Libertarians is how to convince ...

2011-04-15T11:42:31.388-07:00
The trick for the Libertarians is how to convince all the middle class Americans who have become increasingly disillusioned with the sleazeball big government/special interests catering Republican & Democrat Parties operatives to join the Libertarian Party. The Tea party is composed mostly of middle class Americans who know the Federal government is too big and it is sucking the life out of

Good covered point, lots of people simply put some...

2011-04-13T06:03:41.888-07:00
Good covered point, lots of people simply put something weired theories in front of public.
But it doesn’t work i think because know one sure how it will going to happen
It looks like just coping ideas which someone has already written. I found even on
popular blogs guest bloggers bring same theories which I already know. I observed they
just try to spice up their article

Note the US Dollar (USD on my 3rd chart) did very ...

2011-04-08T06:56:53.377-07:00
Note the US Dollar (USD on my 3rd chart) did very well when the stock market rallied between 1996 and 2000. Gold went the other direction.

Update: ECRI's prediction last year (July 1, ...

2011-04-02T08:19:28.023-07:00
Update:

ECRI's prediction last year (July 1, 2010) "A slowdown in U.S. economic growth is imminent, but a new recession is not" turned out to be 100% accurate.

Q3-09 - Q4-09 - Q1-10 - Q2-10 - Q3-10 - Q4-10
1.6% -- 5.0% -- 3.7% -- 1.7% -- 2.6% -- 2.8%

GDP did slow from the last reading of 3.7% at the time of the article.

Weekly Fund Flow data from http://www.lipperusfund...

2011-04-01T12:55:25.227-07:00
Weekly Fund Flow data from
http://www.lipperusfundflows.com

Weekly 03/30/2011
Equity Fund Inflows $6.1 Bil;
Taxable Bond Fund Inflows $3.9 Bil
xETFs -
Equity Fund Inflows $2.2 Bil;
Taxable Bond Fund Inflows $3.6 Bil

xETFs—For the week ended 03/30/2011 all Equity funds report net inflows totaling $2.167 billion, with Domestic Equity funds

Weekly Fund Flow data from http://www.lipperusfund...

2011-03-26T08:04:20.251-07:00
Weekly Fund Flow data from
http://www.lipperusfundflows.com

03/23/2011
Equity Fund Outflows -$2.4 Bil;
Taxable Bond Fund Inflows $966 Mil
xETFs -
Equity Fund Outflows -$124 Mil;
Taxable Bond Fund Outflows -$454 Mil

Lipper US Fund Flows Client, Lipper has decided to rerun our net flows data for the period ended March 23, 2011. As our

Weekly Fund Flow data from http://www.lipperusfund...

2011-03-19T07:01:15.154-07:00
Weekly Fund Flow data from
http://www.lipperusfundflows.com

Weekly 03/16/2011
Equity Fund Outflows -$268 Mil;
Taxable Bond Fund Inflows $2.7 Bil
xETFs -
Equity Fund Inflows $1.2 Bil;
Taxable Bond Fund Inflows $2.1 Bil

ExETFs—For the week ended 03/16/2011 all Equity funds report net inflows totaling $1.194 billion, with Domestic Equity

It's interesting to see the flight from money ...

2011-03-16T08:34:16.096-07:00
It's interesting to see the flight from money market funds as they broke the buck, and then further flight as the stock market exploded, pulling in money from the sidelines. I wonder if this trend will reverse as the markets overheat and people look for stability.

Cramer Update for Gold reported at SeekingAlpha

Is Cramer Abandoning His Bullish Gold Thesis? SPDR Gold Trust ETF (GLD)

There are rumors that Cramer is no

Weekly Fund Flow data from http://www.lipperusfun...

2011-03-10T14:52:41.851-08:00
Weekly Fund Flow data from
http://www.lipperusfundflows.com

03/09/2011
Equity Fund Inflows $6.2 Bil;
Taxable Bond Fund Inflows $5.4 Bil
xETFs -
Equity Fund Inflows $1.5 Bil;
Taxable Bond Fund Inflows $4.6 Bil

ExETFs—For the week ended 03/09/2011 all Equity funds report net inflows totaling $1.517 billion, with Domestic Equity funds

FWIW, I just filled up my Corvette today with prem...

2011-03-04T17:10:16.358-08:00
FWIW, I just filled up my Corvette today with premium at $4.159 per gallon. My records say a year ago gasoline at the same station was $3.259 per gallon.

Weekly Fund Flows Data http://www.lipperusfundflow...

2011-02-24T13:33:44.285-08:00
Weekly Fund Flows Data http://www.lipperusfundflows.com

Weekly 02/23/2011
Equity Fund Outflows -$3.4 Bil;
Taxable Bond Fund Inflows $3.9 Bil
xETFs -
Equity Fund Inflows $2.6 Bil;
Taxable Bond Fund Inflows $3.5 Bil

ExETFs—For the week ended 02/16/2011 all Equity funds report net inflows totaling $4.490 billion, with Domestic Equity funds

Weekly Fund Flows Data http://www.lipperusfundflo...

2011-02-19T07:54:40.001-08:00
Weekly Fund Flows Data http://www.lipperusfundflows.com

Weekly 02/16/2011
Equity Fund Inflows $9.5 Bil;
Taxable Bond Fund Inflows $3.5 Bil
xETFs -
Equity Fund Inflows $4.5 Bil;
Taxable Bond Fund Inflows $3.2 Bil

ExETFs—For the week ended 02/16/2011 all Equity funds report net inflows totaling $4.490 billion, with Domestic Equity funds

At present 10 gm of gold comes at the price of 203...

2011-02-16T05:27:30.019-08:00
At present 10 gm of gold comes at the price of 20330 Rs ,Whereas 1 Kg of silver at 45975 Rs. Gold rates are increasing very speedly... Very true it could be 100 more times costly then silver in future.

Weekly Fund Flows Data 02/09/2011 Equity Fund I...

2011-02-11T15:58:16.596-08:00
Weekly Fund Flows Data
02/09/2011
Equity Fund Inflows $2.5 Bil;
Taxable Bond Fund Inflows $3.7 Bil
xETFs -
Equity Fund Inflows $4.6 Bil;
Taxable Bond Fund Inflows $3.7 Bil

Fund Flow Reports For The Week Ended 02/09 Are Now Available
ExETFs—For the week ended 02/9/2011 all Equity funds report net inflows totaling $4.616 billion, with

Jerry It got down just under 32 in 1981. See
2011-02-10T13:18:02.121-08:00
Jerry
It got down just under 32 in 1981. See

Gold Silver Price Ratio Definition and Charts

I will expand the x-axis on my next article update.

Hi Kirk: Thanks for this great information. As I...

2011-02-10T12:33:05.428-08:00
Hi Kirk: Thanks for this great information. As I recall back in the early 1980's the gold/silver ratio was 40:1. Am I correct? Thanks.
Jerry
Smith

Kirk's Market Thoughts

A very sane blog post! The year-of-year GDP figur...

IBD Confirmed uptrend However, it wasn&...

xETFs means "not counting ETFs"

what does xETFs mean?

Kirk, I saw the video and heaard the words, but p...

Weekly Fund Flow Data for 04/27/2011 Equity Fu...

Weekly Fund Flow Data for 04/20/2011 http://www...

Weekly Fund Flow Data for 04/13/2011 http://www...

The trick for the Libertarians is how to convince ...

Good covered point, lots of people simply put some...

Note the US Dollar (USD on my 3rd chart) did very ...

Update: ECRI's prediction last year (July 1, ...

Weekly Fund Flow data from http://www.lipperusfund...

Weekly Fund Flow data from http://www.lipperusfund...

Weekly Fund Flow data from http://www.lipperusfund...

It's interesting to see the flight from money ...

Cramer Update for Gold reported at SeekingAlphaIs Cramer Abandoning His Bullish Gold Thesis? SPDR Gold Trust ETF (GLD)There are rumors that Cramer is no

Weekly Fund Flow data from http://www.lipperusfun...

FWIW, I just filled up my Corvette today with prem...

Weekly Fund Flows Data http://www.lipperusfundflow...

Weekly Fund Flows Data http://www.lipperusfundflo...

At present 10 gm of gold comes at the price of 203...

Weekly Fund Flows Data 02/09/2011 Equity Fund I...

Jerry It got down just under 32 in 1981. See 2011-02-10T13:18:02.121-08:00 JerryIt got down just under 32 in 1981. SeeGold Silver Price Ratio Definition and ChartsI will expand the x-axis on my next article update.

Hi Kirk: Thanks for this great information. As I...

Cramer Update for Gold reported at SeekingAlpha

Is Cramer Abandoning His Bullish Gold Thesis? SPDR Gold Trust ETF (GLD)

There are rumors that Cramer is no

Jerry It got down just under 32 in 1981. See
2011-02-10T13:18:02.121-08:00
Jerry
It got down just under 32 in 1981. See

Gold Silver Price Ratio Definition and Charts

I will expand the x-axis on my next article update.