Say on Pay “No” Votes Correlate with Securities Class Actions
By Agnes Grunfeld, CFA, Managing DirectorSince 2011, all US public companies have been required to submit their compensation plans to a periodic advisory vote by shareholders, which is commonly...
View ArticleThis is what happens when you don’t have reserve currency status
[Editor’s note: Tim Staermose, Sovereign Man’s Chief Investment Strategist is filling in for Simon today from San Jose, Costa Rica.]It’s easy to see why people like Costa Rica so much. The country is...
View ArticleDraghi and Italy
A key issue that will be addressed this week is how will the ECB respond to the electoral outcome of Italy. The outcome of the Italian election is not yet really known in the sense of the composition...
View ArticleCreative Responsibility
“What good can come from comfort? It’s not going to be art. I think there’s a false ideal out there, to some people — maybe younger people — they might think “I could be an artist and I don’t have to...
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We Still Haven't Figured Out What Caused That Huge Spike In Personal Incomes
The drop in personal income last week got some media attention, particularly given that it was the largest one-month drop in 20 years.USA Today: - Personal income growth plunged 3.6% in January, the...
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Oil Thieves Have Stolen Nearly 60,000 Barrels Per Day From Shell's Nigeria...
Oil giant Shell on Monday raised alarm over "unprecedented" oil theft in Nigeria, particularly related to the sabotage of one of its key pipelines, and called for urgent action to address the...
View ArticleETF Insider: Stocks Brace For Rate Decisions
Last week gave the bulls a scare as profit taking pressures swiftly knocked down major indexes at the start of the week, however, buyers poured in and helped the market regain its footing by the...
View ArticleWhy Debt Hawks Should Love Bernanke
There’s this idea out there that the Bernanke Fed is a) somehow aiding and abetting Washington’s deficit spending by monetizing government debt, and b) risking the creation of dangerous asset bubbles....
View ArticleDaily Interest Rate Monitor – March 4
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America's Four Biggest Banks Still Have The Ugliest Loan Books In The Business
Because the long ordeal of our latest banking crisis is ending, I think it is only appropriate to look at the U.S. financial banking record to see how well the different banks performed during the...
View ArticlePollution Is Costing China's Economy More Than $100 Billion A Year
China may be the world’s economic beacon of hope, but its pollution problems are hurting the bottom line.While China is a leading manufacturer of wind turbines and solar panels, it also is home to...
View ArticleREPORT: An Investor Is Trying To Dump 10 Million Shares Of JC Penney (JCP)
A 10 million share block in troubled retailer JCPenney was being shopped Monday by Deutsche Bank's trading desk, according to multiple sources.The asking price of the block owned by Vornado Realty...
View ArticleNo Joy In Shortsville As Noise Traders Find No Sellers
In 1990 Brad De Long, Andrei Scheifer, Larry Summers, and Robert Waldmann published, Noise Trader Risk in Financial Markets, in the Journal of Political Economy. The piece made the distinction...
View ArticleWill 3D Printing Change the World? – PBSoffbook
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View ArticleGreat Graphic: US Exports Surpassed China in 2012?
This Great Graphic was on put on Business Insider by Lisa Mahapatra. It shows the destination of US exports in 2012, based on the US Department of Commerce data. There are two facts that Ms Mahapatra...
View ArticleMarch 2013 Edition Of ETF Edge Now Available
The March 2013 issue of ETF Edge, the premium monthly ETF Newsletter, is now available to ETFdb Pro subscribers. This issue includes a look back at another upbeat month on Wall Street, highlighting new...
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Car Makers Predict That The European Auto Market Will Remain Dismal For Years
GENEVA (Reuters) - Car sales in Europe are at the low end of expectations and the market is likely to remain shaky for at least five years as the region implements austerity measures to cut its debts,...
View ArticleMuted Turnaround Tuesday
The stage for Turnaround Tuesday was set yesterday when the euro and sterling held the pre-weekend lows and the Dollar-Index did not extend last week's gains. The US-German 2-year spread, which...
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Remember When Everyone Was Worried That There Was No Revenue Growth?
When the current bull was a youngster during 2009, the bears growled that the rebound in earnings back then was all attributable to cost cutting. They were very pessimistic about the outlook for...
View ArticleUsing Municipal Bond ETFs To Avoid Tax Hikes
Nothing rings more true than Ben Franklin’s famous quote, “In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.” Looking past the morbid side of that statement, higher taxes are almost certainly...
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