04Apr

As Soft Data Booms, Hard Trade Data Turns Positive in February

The “soft” data seems to be wining the day – and it is making Bank of America Merrill Lynch Credit Strategist Hans Mikkelsen “feel good.” But there is also hard data that is turning heads of analysts -- a topic that was part of a political debate.

Consumer Confidence highest since just before the 2001 "Tech Wreck" market crash
In a March 28 Situation Room report, Mikkelsen looks at the markets and notes that the Conference Board’s Consumer . . .

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.

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