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The Egyptian Stock Market Is Having A Huge Day
Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Egypt’s stocks were set for a three- week high after the first round of voting on the new constitution, which has divided Islamists and opposition groups, passed...
View ArticleCOMING WEEK: 6 REASONS TO BE BEARISH
Fiscal Cliff Dive To Spoil Christmas Break For Markets?Here’s the rundown of likely market movers this week, their likely impact, and some thoughts on what to do, and on the one thing you must do.1....
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THE BIG LESSON, QUESTION, AND CONCLUSIONS FOR THE COMING WEEK AND BEYOND
60 Pages Of Market Diary Summarized Into A 5 Minute ReadThe Prior Week’s Key Market Movers, And Implied Lessons, Questions, And Conclusions For The Coming Week And BeyondIgnore Them At Your Own Risk...
View ArticleGreat Graphic: Key to House Prices
This Great Graphic was posted on Sober Outlook, which in turn comes from JPMorgan, drawing on CoreLogic and BLS data. It tracks two times series, per capita income and house prices. The compelling...
View ArticleThis Week In ETFs: December 16th Edition
After yet another week of speculation on the fiscal cliff and the solution to it, Republicans and Democrats continue to clash on the correct solution for a fragile America. Markets enjoyed a bump...
View ArticleETF Pop Quiz: Nuclear Energy, Norway, and National Municipal Bonds
After busy week in the global market, the ETFdb pop quiz returns with another round of questions about Nuclear Energy, Norway, and National Municipal Bonds.As always, all answers can be found using the...
View ArticleWealth and Redistribution Revisited: Does Enriching the Rich Actually Make Us...
In a recent post I built a model with one rich person and ten poorer people to ask: does redistribution from rich to poor make us all more wealthy? The conclusion was Yes. Jump back there to see a...
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RAIL INDICATORS: The Economy Continues To Soften
More weakness in this week’s rail traffic report. The AAR reported a -0.3% reading in intermodal. This is the second consecutive negative weekly reading. This brings the 12 week moving average down...
View ArticleInitial Thoughts on Japan's Elections
The outcome of Japan's elections seems to be largely in line with market expectations. The Liberal Democrat Party won handily. It appears to have secured a majority of lower chamber of the Diet....
View ArticleAbe Landslide — Black Swan 2013?
Shinzo Abe may put together a government with a super majority in the Japanese Diet. Sounds like a mandate to us.Abe has been promoting a massive quantitative easing by the Bank of Japan and public...
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Chinese Investments Mean Canadian Crude Now Sells For $45 A Barrel
The price Canada's oil sands producers receive has fallen to staggering $64 a barrel below the international benchmark after the spread between Canada’s heavy oil and US crude fell to a more than...
View ArticleThree critical timeframes for running winners and cutting losers
Value investors may baulk at the idea, but William O'Neil, Wall St veteran and founder of Investors Business Daily, once compared running an investment portfolio to managing a fashion store - the best...
View ArticleJoel Bowman — The State is Failing…and Other Reasons to be Optimistic
For the complete audio recordings of Rancho Santanta, and all future conference recordings click here.Joel Bowman — The State is Failing…and Other Reasons to be Optimistic appeared in the Daily...
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America's Natural Gas Story In 15 Charts
The story of U.S. natural gas gets referenced a lot but you may not know what's going on. Here are 15 charts that tell the story of the U.S. natural gas market.Rise of horizontal drilling and hydraulic...
View ArticleSEC Alleges Aletheia Cherry-Picked Investments, New York Times Says
The Securities and Exchange Commission said Peter J. Eichler Jr., owner of the investment firm Aletheia Research and Management, had perpetrated a “cherry-picking” scheme, The New York Times reported....
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Goons versus Gold
Credit expansion, wrote the great Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, is not a nostrum to make people happy. “The boom it engenders must inevitably lead to a debacle and unhappiness.”That seems a...
View ArticleGovernment, the New Debtors’ Prison
An old banking buddy of mine has been out of work for a full year. I met up with him yesterday, and he told me the good news that he has finally found work. It’s not enjoyable. But it pays better than...
View ArticleChris Mayer — Optimism, Pessimism and the Coffee Cup Project
For the complete audio recordings of Rancho Santanta, and all future conference recordings click here.Chris Mayer — Optimism, Pessimism and the Coffee Cup Project appeared in the Daily Reckoning....
View ArticleGoggle's Bermuda hideaway/HSBC's too-big status: time to rein in the...
by Linda BealeGoggle's Bermuda hideaway/HSBC's too-big status: time to rein in the corporations! If you are a company that depends on IP for a lot of your revenue, you may be able to avoid...
View ArticleSolar Power | Entrenched Energy Monopolies Bring On Standard Divide & Conquer...
“California Utilities Say Solar Raises Costs for Non-UsersRaising Caps The growth is also driving efforts to raise net-metering caps. California revised the way it calculates its limit in May,...
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