Wednesday Weakness – Will The Fed Turn Us Back Up?
Wheeee – what a ride!  As nasty as our Big Chart looks at the moment, we only have two Vomiting Cobra Patterns (Nasdaq and Russell) while the other three indexes …
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Most Bullish And Bearish Stocks On Twitter
Below are charts with the bullish intensity scores for the most bullish stocks on Twitter for the week and month ended 4/8/14. Tickers include: aci, amd, anr, apc, bby, brcm, gtat, hpq, intc, jcp, kndi, lng, mon, mu, mygn, myl, nke, nvda,oxy, pbr, qcom, va.e, wlt, xle, znga Below are charts with the bearish …
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New Record For Electronic Investment Products
According to ETFGI: Global ETF and ETP assets reached US$2.45 trillion, a new record high, at the end of Q1 2014. LONDON – April 7, 2014 – Flows into ETFs …
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Another Chinese High Yield Bond Issuer Declares Bankruptcy
Another week, another Chinese default. A month after Chaori Solar’s default turned on its head a long-held assumption that even high-yielding debt carried an implicit state guarantee, another Chinese firm …
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Insubordinate ‘Maverick’ Orban Wins Another Election
‘Not a Nice Guy’ We would normally be inclined to like Hungary’s Viktor Orban, not least because he is widely despised by the EU nomenklatura in Brussels. He also happens to be …
Read More Invest In What’s Really Important
While the market goes gaga for technology companies, bidding their prices to levels assuming constant growth to infinity, I wonder just how new apps or viewing devices make my life …
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More Americans Go Hungry Than All But 2 European Nations
Since 2007, when the financial crisis touched down across the world, the proportion of people going hungry in Europe has soared, according to the OECD. As Bloomberg’s Niraj Shah notes, the …
Read More 4 Key Reasons For CAPEX Accelerating
We’ve received a number of e-mails regarding the recent post on the possibility that rising CAPEX spending in the US is driving corporations to tap their credit facilities, thus increasing …
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Fiat Money And Business Cycles In Emerging Markets
After the stock market collapse of 2008 and a decline of 3.4 percent for U.S. GDP in 2009, investors rushed to stash funds in emerging markets (EM) where economies were …
Read More Faceoff On Greece: An Interim Update
About two years ago the situation in Greece was at a flashpoint. It was at the top of the list of investor worries. Leading that argument was John Mauldin, who …
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