A 'Certainty' Bubble Is Inflating In The Markets
“I am certain that you will find this helpful.” As an investor, you are barraged with risk – economic risks, personal biases, companies over-stating results, and rapidly shifting trends are just a...
View ArticleLuxembourg Is Not The Next Cyprus
The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, with a population of just over half a million, smaller even than the other speck in the Eurozone, the Republic of Cyprus, ranks in the top three worldwide in per-capita...
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MAULDIN: Cash Isn't Going Anywhere Yet
But Mousie, thou art [not alone],In proving foresight may be vain:The best-laid schemes o' mice an' menGang aft agley,An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,For promis'd joy!Robert Burns, To a Mouse,...
View ArticleCurrency Positioning and Technical Outlook: Fundamentals Needed to Clarfiy...
Over the past week, sterling, bolstered by news of a 0.3% expansion in Q1 and reduced chances of fresh BOE action before Carney takes the reins in July, was the best performing major currency. A...
View ArticleCurrency Positioning and Technical Outlook: Fundamentals Needed to Clarify...
Over the past week, sterling, bolstered by news of a 0.3% expansion in Q1 and reduced chances of fresh BOE action before Carney takes the reins in July, was the best performing major currency. A...
View ArticleETF Insider: Double-Top Fears Return, S&P 500 Stalls At 1,600 Level
U.S. stocks traded higher right from the opening bell on Monday morning as China growth fears subsided and upbeat earnings reports hit The Street. Despite bullish price action all week, U.S. GDP missed...
View ArticleGreat Graphic: Feminization of Consumption
This Great Graphic comes from a post by An Hodgson on Euromonitor International. It depicts the growth in real disposable annual income per capita for three high income countries by gender in the...
View ArticleOur Biggest Private Equity Investment
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View ArticleOverbought and Oversold Markets – April 26
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 ArticleETF Pop Quiz: Vietnam, Vanguard, and Value ETFs
After another week in the global market, the ETFdb pop quiz returns with another round of questions about Vietnam, Vanguard, and Value ETFs.As always, all answers can be found using the suite of free...
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Even America's Food Aid Program Has Been Hijacked By Special Interests
IT IS the sad fate of American overseas food aid to occupy a policy “sweet spot”, says Chris Barratt, an expert in the subject at Cornell University.Its budget, the largest of any country’s, is big...
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Here's What The Twinkies Comeback Trail Looks Like
Junk food enthusiasts everywhere can celebrate, as the return of Twinkies is assured. The cream-filled golden cakes synonymous with childhoods past will be on shelves as early as July. They will be...
View ArticleCYPRUS ONE MONTH LATER: Uncertainty Has Broken The Morale Of The People
Editor's note: George Iordanou helped us with our coverage of Cyprus' banking sector meltdown in March. A native of the island, Iordanou is now getting his Ph.D in political theory at the University of...
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Gold Could Collapse Just Like Bitcoin Did
The power of fear is amazing to me.For the most part, otherwise sane individuals will do all sorts of crazy things once things become a little bit dicey.Want proof? Look no further than the gold...
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The Growing Divergence Between Rich And Poor Economies May Become A Source Of...
Those economies relatively rich at the start of the twentieth century have by and large seen their material wealth and prosperity explode. Those nations and economies that were relatively poor have...
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Here's What People Do When They Drop Out Of The Labor Force
In spite of some improvements in the US job markets, labor force participation continues to decline.The traditional explanation of course is that people are discouraged by the lack of job opportunities...
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American Rail Traffic Growth Has Nearly Ground To A Halt
After a big first quarter rail traffic has come out of the gate extremely soft in Q2. The average pace of year over year expansion in intermodal traffic was a very healthy 5.3% in Q1, but has averaged...
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Last Week's Massive Worldwide Stock Market Rally Had Only One Big Loser
The worldwide rally continued last week. Seven of the eight indexes on my watchlist posted big gains. The lone loser was the Shanghai Composite, down three percent (2.97% to be precise). How well did...
View ArticleWeekend Developments: Signal and Noise
The weekend has produced five talking points. The leaked French Socialist draft document that was critical of Germany (and the UK) and the Bundesbank's letter to the German Constitutional Court...
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The World's First Stock Market Crash Happened Nearly 300 Years Ago
Building on a long tradition of catastrophic financial market crashes, the economic meltdown caused by the bursting of the housing bubble in 2008 is only the latest in a long line of epic stock market...
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