The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the Federal Reserve System holds eight scheduled meetings in a year. The results of these meetings provide not only trading opportunities, but also extremely valuable data points for investments. The June 19 to 20 FOMC meeting is upon us. As always, there is
Over years, Central Bank head Ben Bernanke’s testimonies have become a steady source of profits for me and subscribers to The Arora Report . Bernanke’s testimony from this morning before Congress’ Joint Economic Committee was no different. The race was on to read and interpret the text before the others
The two most important questions Will you lend to someone who is insolvent and has no plan to get out of insolvency at 1.47% for 10 years when inflation is running at about 3% and prospects of hyper-inflation loom? Will you sell good assets that are likely to protect your
At 11:26 a.m. today, I received an email from a well-known market guru who is an expert at technical analysis. The email declared that the pattern in gold was like a coil ready to start a new rally. At 2:00 p.m. the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Open Market
Johnny-come-latelies in Apple (AAPL) stock may be setting themselves up to get their pockets picked by professionals. Unless one has been hiding under a rock, it has been impossible to hide from the constant bombardment of the same tired news that iPad 3 is coming. Professionals and individual investors play the much
The key to generating wealth over a long period of time is to identify when one macro cycle ends and a new macro cycle begins. In economics, a macro cycle is defined as a cycle of big picture economic performance, structure, and behavior. No bell is rung at the end
The top three issues in the upcoming 2012 election are jobs, jobs and jobs. President Obama would be fighting against strong historical precedent trying to win reelection with unemployment staying above 9%. Over the last several months, unemployment has stubbornly refused to budge down. At 8:30 EST this
It appears that a big European bank got close to failure last night. European banks, especially French banks, rely heavily on funding in the wholesale money markets. It appears that a major bank was having difficulty funding its immediate liquidity needs. The cavalry was called in and has