Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Go Figure? FED Action Trips Us Up Again

The market has rallied on good earnings reports and the likelihood that the FED would stop raising rates. Well, the FED halts a series of 2 years of ever increasing rate hikes and the market sells off on the news! Now, Wall Street will tell us that because the FED has paused on the rate hikes, this is not good since the economy may be slowing! That is...rising inflation in a slowing economy.....stagflation they will call it! What next??

Trinity Industries Could Run From Here

Looking at the chart, we feel that Trinity Industries - TRN cound run through $40 from these levels. It has been on a Buy signal since $35 and looks solid as it continues to move higher.

TRN Chart

Telecoms Have Made A Good Run

Q, TWTC, And BWNG are positioning themselves to benefit from the upcoming high demands of media services with home and enterprise customers in the future. We are seeing a slight pullback after digesting the recent run ups, but expect that higher stock prices will follow quarter after quarter as profits continue to improve.