The Stock Market Is Looking Like 2000 And 2007 All Over Again
"I have to get into this market; otherwise it's just dragging on me" (A portfolio manager quoted in the Wall Street Journal just prior to the March 2000 peak in the S&P 500.)"..as long as the music...
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A 'Politically Explosive' Secret: Italians Are More Than Twice As Wealthy As...
In December 2006, the ECB established the HFSC network of survey specialists, statisticians, and economists from its own ranks, national central banks of the Eurozone, and statistical institutes. The...
View ArticleCurrency Positioning and Technical Outlook: Dollar Frustrates QE Bears
The US dollar rose to new multi-month highs against several of the major currencies, including the euro, Swiss franc, British pound and the Japanese yen. The BOJ, BOE and ECB meet last week and none...
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Higher Food Prices Take Chinese Inflation To A 10-Month High
* Feb CPI rises 3.2 percent from year earlier* Feb food CPI up 6.0 percent on year* Feb PPI falls 1.6 percent from year earlierBEIJING, March 9 (Reuters) - China's annual inflation jumped to a 10-month...
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Money Velocity Could Be A Problem When Bernanke Takes His Foot Off The...
With the DOW blowing by milestones I went looking for other things that were at record levels. The first one that I looked at was M2. No surprise at all, M2 is bigger than ever. Charts of the long and...
View ArticleETF Insider: Say Hello To All-Time Highs
Stocks kicked off the trading week on a positive note Monday morning, and buying euphoria stuck around in the days following as upbeat economic data stole the headlines. Improvements in home prices and...
View ArticleBarrons Covers Bed, Bath and Beyond
Nice piece today on BBBY. We’ve liked this stock for a while, strong balance sheet, reasonably priced and exposed to the improving housing market. Barrons probably goes a little overboard in...
View ArticleMLP Investors Pay More Tax
Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) are one of the more tax efficient income generating investments around, given that investors can deduct depreciation from their distributions and thereby defer...
View ArticleOverbought and Oversold Markets – March 8
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...
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JIM ROGERS: The World's Savers Are Being Wiped Out, And History Says That...
Jim Rogers decries the growing uncertainty and recklessness of global central planners as the world enters uncharted financial markets:For the first time in recorded history, we have nearly every...
View ArticleETF Pop Quiz: Middle East, Medical Devices, and Mid-Cap Growth
After another week in the global market, the ETFdb pop quiz returns with another round of questions about the Middle East, MLPs, and Mid-Cap Growth.As always, all answers can be found using the suite...
View ArticleItaly: The Dragon and the Cricket
The difficulty in making sense of the results of the Italian election has produced the common imagery of a clown to capture the comic Grillo, who appears to be the most unlikely politician since Lech...
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The White House Closing To The Public Isn't Just About Saving A Few Bucks
So the White House is closing its doors to the public today. Budget cuts related to the sequester are the blame.The WH tours are closed after a decision by the Secret Service that it could not afford...
View Article3 ETFs To Watch This Week: EWJ, XRT, ENZL
Strong economic reports coupled with bullish momentum had the Dow Jones Industrial Average surging into uncharted territory, posting record-breaking all-time highs last week. The Institute for Supply...
View ArticleObservations About the Investment Climate
After putting in another good week, the US dollar is consolidating its recent gains amid quiet and largely uneventful trading that has kept in in fairly narrow trading ranges. Following Fitch's...
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US Companies Keeping Even More Money Offshore
U.S. companies are keeping more of their profits offshore, choosing overseas tax havens amid talk in Washington about closing corporate tax loopholes, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.The...
View ArticleA Closer Look At Buy/Write ETFs
The sheer growth in the number of ETFs has been staggering. What started off as a simple way to track basic stock and bond market indexes has ballooned outwards quite rapidly. Retail investors now have...
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Watch Out For Twitter Stock Hoaxes, Which Are Getting Trickier By The Day
Prominent short-seller David Einhorn raised eyebrows last month when he popped up on Twitter to disavow that he had tweeted about Herbalife Ltd."Apparently I have a twitter impersonator," said the...
View ArticleGreat Graphic: Unemployment Rate without Government Drag
This Great Graphic was posted by Phil Izzo on Wall Street Journal's economics blog. Department of Labor data shows that the government (federal, state and local) have cut 750k jobs since the middle of...
View Article3 Charts That Prove ETFs Are Here To Stay
Twenty years ago when State Street introduced its broad stock market tracker, the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY, A), many investment advisors and market professionals viewed it as a fad. When the fund was...
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