The Traderszone Network

Back from a long vacation—it will take me a while to catch up on what I missed.

I notice that 5-year Treasuries are currently yielding 1.56% and 10-year yields are 2.04%.  I was taught two theories of the yield curve:

1.  Expectations hypothesis—>  Long term yields are an average of expected future short term yields.

2.  Term premium hypothesis—> Long term yields are an average of expected future S-T yields, plus a term premium.

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Verizon Communications has approached AOL about a potential acquisition or joint venture, Bloomberg has reported.

The euro wallowed near a nine-year trough, keeping up a shaky start to 2015 due to the prospect of more policy easing from the ECB.

Continental Resources stock continues to fall. Here’s why.

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Companies that operate oil tankers have become more appealing amid the supply-driven drop in crude prices, Dennis Gartman said.

BlackRock’s iShares ETFs captured $102.8 billion in new investor money in 2014, taking the top industry spot in terms of inflow, BlackRock reports. Globally, exchange traded funds saw a record $330.7 billion in inflow, with iShares accounting for 31% of the total. Record demand from Asian and Latin American customers for both U.S. and European iShares ETFs helped to drive the growth. The U.S.

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We started off with an ugly trade Monday, but that does not stop “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer from making a bold prediction.