by Dave Kranzler | May 22, 2018 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Someone or some entity – likely a hedge fund – bought 4500 September $35-strike puts on XHB on Thursday last week when XHB was trading just above $39. That’s a $225,000 speculative bet that the XHB drops more than 15% by mid-September. This morning...
by Dave Kranzler | Feb 22, 2017 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Toll Brothers reported its Fiscal Q1 earnings this morning. Year over for the quarter: Revenues declined nearly 1%, operating income plunged 46.8%, net income dropped 4.1%. Net income was boosted by the reliable accounting management technique of reducing the...
by Dave Kranzler | Aug 23, 2016 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Absurd surges in new home sales activity were not significant…Headline reporting of this series is of no substance, as seen frequently with massive, unstable and continuously shifting revisions of recent history… – John Williams, Shadowstats.com on...
