The King Report
Research Product Overview
Our Market Strategist, Bill King, has authored “The King Report” for over 18 years. It is an independent view on global, political, financial, and economic factors that influence world markets.
As author of the firm’s daily research, Bill’s candid observations and forecast on the economic, financial, and political forces that are impacting the markets have been extremely accurate. However, this report is not the usual garden variety tripe that is issued by the financial media and Wall Street. Bill, in plain language, refutes conventional rant about Wall Street activity and articulates the real factors and impetuses that drive market activity. The inside world of Wall Street is far different than what is disseminated to the masses. Wall Street insiders seldom adorn their own portfolios or trading accounts with 'recommended list' issues.
The King Report features include –
- Concise session summary
- Short-term investment strategy
- Macro strategy
- Technical trading comments
- Sector-specific comments
- Political color and commentary
- Distribution takes place after midnight via email
The King Report is now a daily “must read” and discussed at morning meetings by some of the largest investment institutions throughout the US and Europe. Bill and his staff maintain daily contact with major US financial institutions, and various financial/economic professionals to gather market information, while maintaining primary source anonymity.
One of our readers recently provided this feedback:
“It is a quick read covering a wide variety of sources from a trader’s perspective. Mr. King seems to delight in poking holes in conventional wisdom, skewering Pollyanna’s and bringing a skeptical point of view to widely accepted explanations for the market’s ups and downs. The links to full stories make it easy to read more on a particular subject if I’m interested. I also enjoy the subtle sarcasm.”
Click here to view a PDF sample of THE KING REPORT
View Bill’s comments below in Barron’s:
MONDAY, JUNE 1, 2009
UP AND DOWN WALL STREET
By ALAN ABELSON | What's caused the big decline in the fortunes of the nation's newspapers. Figures don't lie but…
Obviously, with an economy that has been flirting with catastrophe for going on six months, any semblance of good news is inarguably newsworthy. But, the job of a journalist is not to swallow whole what an interested party tells him, whether said party draws a paycheck from Washington or Wall Street. Rather, it's to act as a filter, separating out the facts from the flotsam. And that means taking a hard look for himself at the figures.
Thus, there were hosannas and chirping galore about the end of the slump in manufacturing when a 1.9% increase was reported for new durable-goods in April. What seemed to have escaped general recognition among the gushing reporters was that the March numbers were sharply reduced from a decline of 0.8% to a drop of 2.1% -- which might just have had something to do with April's unexpected jump.
And as Bill King of the always informative King Report, who has a thing about how much of the official data virtually across the board is quietly revised downward the next month, points out, in the latest tally of jobless claims, the previous week's data were also shaved from the original number. And that, too, got lost in the jubilation over what was hailed in many quarters as fresh evidence that the labor market was steadying.
