A Dollar From Your Paycheck Is 100 Times More Powerful Than A Dollar From The...
An excellent piece of research by Neal Soss and Henry Mo of Credit Suisse may be found in the February 13th US Economics Digest. They used classical economic theory to examine the "elasticity" of...
View ArticleCurrency Positioning and Technical Outlook: A View of the Long-Term Charts
The Lebanese-American poet Kahlil Gibran Given the sizable moves in the foreign exchange market, we thought it might be useful to look at the long-term technical picture of the major currencies....
View ArticleBarron’s Covers MLPs Again
Barron‘s has a decent overview of MLPs today. They could have been more critical of the various funds, exchange traded notes and ETFs that offer MLP exposure. None of these pass through the tax...
View ArticleETF Insider: Broad Correction In Sight
The bears finally made an appearance on Wall Street, although it was fairly short-lived. Profit taking pressures permeated the marketplace on Wednesday as investors fretted over worse-than-expected...
View ArticleTechnical Analysis of the Natural Gas Market
By EconMatters Near-term Double TopNatural Gas closed Friday at $3.35 per mmBtu and has been on a three month downtrend from the $4 level where it put in a near-term double top in October and November...
View ArticleItaly’s own Mr. Normal? A look at Luigi Bersani – France 24
Some more background on one of the candidates in tomorrow’s HUGE Italian elections.(click here if video is not observable)Read more posts on Global Macro Monitor »Please follow Money Game on Twitter...
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A Blow-By-Blow Schedule Of The Italian Elections This Weekend
While we have discussed the strategic implications of tomorrow's critical Italian elections previously (An Italian "Hung Parliament" - Europe's Biggest Political Risk), the actual chronology of events...
View ArticleTechnical Analysis of the Silver Market
By EconMattersPortfolio Rebalancing for start of 2013Silver closed Friday`s trading session at $28.46 an ounce, capping off what has been an auspicious start to 2013. On January 23rdSilver was trading...
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The US Is Running Out Of Homes To Sell
Homes available for sale as well as the housing supplies measured in months are now at pre-recession levels, while household formation continues to recover (see post). This development was predicted by...
View ArticleETF Pop Quiz: Junk Bonds, JP Morgan, and Japan
After another week in the global market, the ETFdb pop quiz returns with another round of questions about Junk Bonds, JP Morgan, and Japan.As always, all answers can be found using the suite of free...
View ArticleCool Video: Mitochondrial Eve
I stumbled on this cool video on YouTube. In an entertaining fashion it explains some of most mind-boggling things about our cells--that the mitochondria, which provides energy for the cell, likely is...
View ArticleMoody's Took Away The UK's AAA Rating And That Means Nothing
Moody's took away the UK's triple A rating late Friday. A ratings downgrade has long been rumored, and although the timing is always surprising, the move itself has long been anticipated. Sterling...
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CHART: All Of The Overbought And Oversold Markets In The World Read
The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is a momentum oscillator that measures the speed and change of price moves. The RSI moves between zero and 100 and is considered overbought with a reading above 70 and...
View ArticleStock Screening 'really, really matters' - FT Money on Stockopedia
Just thought I should flag to subscribers this morning the excellent article "Stock screens to net the ones that got away" in the Financial Times Money section this weekend that references some of the...
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Greek Yogurt Could Be The First Real New Consumer Staple To Emerge In Decades
It's too late to grab ketchup for your portfolio now that Warren Buffett has taken the biggest player, Heinz, off the shelf with a record $23 billion acquisition. But it's not too late to catch yogurt...
View ArticleMacro Fishing – Five Good Reads
Challenges for the new Governor of the Bank of Japan - Gavyn Davies, FTIs there a tipping point for government debt? – Washington Post WonkBlogGlobal Economy-Hoping for Answers to Three Big Questions...
View Article3 ETFs To Watch This Week: VXX, XLI, EWC
Markets were in for several volatile trading sessions last week as investors digested mixed economic reports and the latest minutes from the Fed. The central bank announced that it will continue...
View ArticleCOMING WEEK MARKET MOVERS: 7 THINGS YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST WATCH
Current Assumptions About Stimulus, EU, To Be Put To The Test This Week, And Keep An Eye On Currency Markets Here’s a brief rundown of the likely top market movers for the week ahead. For further...
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According To The Berkshire-Anne Hathaway Indicator, Warren Buffett Will Have...
Let’s face it folks global markets have turned into the Truman Show.In other words, much, if not, everything is pretty much fake. An artificial housing recovery based on repressed interest rates and...
View ArticleTen Things that should be on Your Radar Screen This Week
The week has begun off with a bang. Follow through selling of sterling in early Asia saw its losses extended to almost $1.5070 before recovering almost a cent by early Europe to about $1.5165, filling...
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