Investing and Trading News, with a Contrarian, Sarcastic Twist!
Today, Bloomberg was quick to post a headline trumpeting the end of deflation: Deflation Disappears With Bond Market Showing Growth Oct. 25 (Bloomberg) — The bond market is showing Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke will succeed in sparking inflation after the smallest gain in core consumer prices in half a century increased concerns that the […]
Is the Fed Sorry It Promised QE2? October 11, 2010 by Sy Harding, Editor of the Street Smart Report The Fed has had stocks and gold spiking up since early September, and the dollar plunging, first on hints that it might consider providing another round of ‘quantitative easing’ if the economic recovery continued to worsen, and […]
There’s been quite a bit of speculation that the November elections could be a bloodbath for incumbents, with a sweeping wave of austerity kicking ass and taking names. But the futures markets are currently showing that austerity votes are likely to disappoint in next month’s elections. Starting right here at the major nexus for irresponsible […]
Well, it’s about time! The dollar is AT LAST starting to “show some signs”, as play-by-play guy Marv Albert would say: Source: StockCharts.com At the beginning of this month, we listed 3 reasons the dollar was due to rally. Reason #1 was an intermediate term trend that appeared to be heading up since 2008: Since […]
The Outlook for Real Estate, Including the Ban on Foreclosures and its Effects David Galland interviews real estate professional Andy Miller, Miller Frishman Group In 1990, following the real estate debacle of the 1980s, Andy Miller co-founded SevoMiller, Inc. The company provided workout services for major financial institutions throughout the country and also began buying […]
Nice post and chart here by Mish Shedlock, who peers into the commonly cited “fact” that Corporate America’s balance sheets are stuffed with cash. That may be the case, but they are MORE stuffed with debt – and total debt surpasses total cash. You can read Mish’s breakdown here. The biggest joke, I think, is […]
A wild headline courtesy of researchers at Indiana University, who are using mood-recording algorithms on Twitter to predict stock market changes! From MIT’s Technology Review: So these guys took 9.7 million tweets posted by 2.7 million tweeters between March and December 2008 and looked for correlations between the GPOMS indices and whether Dow Jones Industrial […]
Here’s a recent excerpt from Richard Russell’s Dow Theory Letters (courtesy of Financial Sense): The gold bull market will not end with a fizzle and a whimper. It will end with intense speculation and widespread interest from the funds and the public. We haven’t seen that kind of activity yet, but I’m convinced that a […]
On Friday I had the good fortune to interview Andy Kessler, of Silicon Valley and Wall Street fame, about his latest book, Grumby. Andy is one of the sharpest minds around with regards to the intersection of technology and finance. He’s an electrical engineer by training, and after starting his career at Bell Labs, he […]
Robert Prechter likes to make his media appearances when he senses a potential market turn is at hand. Recently, he joined the hosts at Yahoo Tech Ticker to talk about indicators that may be flashing some big warning signs for the stock market. Of course since this interview, the market has gone only up – […]
Recent Comments