Topics: Banks

Vampire Squids


Brendan Cournane returns to the show in-studio to talk Illinois’s credit rating, last night’s Super Bowl comeback by the Patriots and much more. Options guru and veteran floor trader, Frank Fahey, predicts a flat market this week in spite of inflammatory political announcements (check out Frank’s weekly blog here). Matt Taibbi, writer/reporter for Rolling Stone, has a detailed discussion with the Chief regarding financial regulation and the role of the media covering the new administration. Finally, David Andalman of PTI Securities & Futures tells us how to trade these markets.

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Booze, Shrimp and Hookers


Kevin O’Neill leads off the show by sharing his favorite Super Bowl LI prop bets before taking a look at the Chicago Bears’ draft possibilities. Kathy Dervin is in-studio discussing Fitch’s decision to downgrade Illinois’s credit rating. Hal Snarr, Author and Professor of Economics at Westminster College, previews the jobs number, predicts another recession and rips the Fed’s repeated decisions to ignore low unemployment by immediately raising rates. Finally, John Neal of PTI Securities & Futures‘ Peoria, AZ location talks Phoenix infrastructure before telling us which sectors to look into trading. 

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Trump Taps Gorsuch


The Chief and Lou Michels are live in studio. Lou educated Nick about America of the past and living in a day where nuclear war was constantly being threatened. We discuss Patrick McHenry’s letter to Fed Chair Janet Yellen.

They have their weekly discussion on Trump’s activity from the last seven days before touching on Neil Gorsuch and his nomination as a supreme court justice. Should democrats be ok with this choosing? Should they try to block it?

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Apple A Day


Kevin O’Neill kicks off the show talking incompetency in the regulation industry, hypocrisy on both sides of government and much more. Fari Hamzei of Hamzei Analytics tells us how he called $AAPL before dropping some knowledge on the history of Iran. David Andalman, Technical Analyst and Money Manager at PTI Securities & Futures, tells us why $AAPL had such a huge quarter before taking a look at some of the sectors he’s interested in for 2017.

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Under Perf-Armour


Jon Najarian of CNBC’s ‘Fast Money’ is in-studio talking Trump economic policies, $UAA earnings, cybersecurity stocks and much more. Joel Elconin of Benzinga previews the Super Bowl before reflecting on yesterday’s down day in the market. Kenny Polcari, Director of NYSE Floor Operations at O’Neil Securities and a contributor to CNBC, discusses why he thinks Trump has prioritized his actions the way he has. Finally, John Neal of PTI Securities & Futures‘ Peoria, AZ office talks new stadium proposals in Phoenix, coal and much more.

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