Like many, I set aside 15 minutes to read Aleph’s latest blog post about the AdTech industry and what engineers should devote their time and brains into these companies. I know and respect the people at Aleph and as a person believe each is entitled to have an opinion, we don’t always have to agree.. But, as a…
“This is a golden time window to acquire more strategic oil at lower costs,” notes one Hong-Kong based analyst, as Bloomberg confirms what we have noted here and here, that China is emerging as the winner from OPEC’s battle with rival oil producers as the world’s biggest energy consumer stockpiles crude. 84 tankers remain en route to Chinese destinations… Bloomberg confirms,
Podcast: Play in new window | Play in new window (Duration: 13:17 — 6.1MB) DOW – 51 = 17,776 SPX – 14 = 2053 NAS -64 = 4727 10 YR YLD + .02 = 2.22% OIL + 3.22 = 69.37 GOLD + 44.30 = 1213.80 SILV + .88 = 16.56 Last week I said that you can never eat…
Good evening, Slopers. I was going to bombard you with ETF charts, to assuage my utterly misplaced blogger’s guilt, but I landed on the first one – DBC – and figured it was enough. Allow me to share this with you, augmented with some embellishments: You will note something quite interesting: up until October 2011,…
Oct 15th – Nov 6th 17 trading sessions 1705 point gain on Dow 4 down trading sessions with all closing off the lows and near the highs but on one day Nov 7th – Nov 28th 15 trading sessions 274 point gain 4 down sessions with all but one closing at/near the highs While it’s…
CHF, We Declare Thee Garbage It is by now well known that after several weeks of intense government propaganda, the Gold Initiative in Switzerland failed rather spectacularly (78% voted against keeping the Keynesian dunderheads running the SNB in check). The propaganda machinery got into full swing a few weeks ago when the “yes” vote unexpectedly…
It has been a while, but markets had their first day of distribution in weeks. The selling didn’t clock up big percentage losses, although the Russell 2000 suffered the worst of the selling. There was still a case of post-holiday trading volume, but many indices are looking at ‘bearish evening star’ set ups. The Russell…
The Chart of the Day belongs to Omnicom Group (NYSE:OMC). I found the stock by sorting the All Time High list for the stocks having the most frequent new highs in the last month then used the Flipchart feature to review the charts. Since the Trend Spotter signaled a buy on 10/24 the stock gained…
As you read this, inflation is eating away at the value of your money. Over time, American’s inflation rate has slowly eroded the value of the dollar to the point where $1 today would only have been worth 4.8 cents in 1913 dollars. Other countries and currencies aren’t immune from the devastating effects of inflation…
Hey Bueller, junk bonds are doing what? Dropping. Junk bonds vs. quality bonds are doing what? Dropping. Heading into October junk bonds and ratios did what? Anyone? Bueller? Look, I am not trying to come off like a wise guy. I have been having as much trouble making sense of things as anyone else lately. …
