Bespoke Investment GroupWith the stock market hitting all-time highs on a daily basis, optimism does not appear to be slowing down. All three major indices reached new milestones this year and crushed any bear that stood in the way. However, the large crowd of bulls may give some investors reason for concern.Bears appear to be in full hibernation mode. According […]
Christine Lagarde, who said the IMF will raise its forecast for US growth . Photograph: FRANCOIS LENOIR/REUTERSGood morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of events across the world economy, the financial markets, the eurozone and the business world.And a rather quiet morning it is too. Especially in London where workers who haven’t clocked off for Christmas may struggle to […]
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Well, on the bright side, we won’t have football interrupting us during the Holiday season.2013 is almost dead, and I couldn’t be happier about it. What little positivity the Vikings had going for them the last four weeks evaporated completely in an embarrassing display of the ‘footy’ (H/T Mrs. Fearless Leader for almost making me choke on my burger […]
Ben Bernanke’s gift to the markets on Wednesday December 18, 2013 in my review was really no big surprise. What would have been a surprise was an announcement that in the coming year the Fed was actually going to move to a neutral monetary policy. But, as I stated in my last article, “now is not the time to exit […]
Stock Market Fed….Overbought….Froth…….Still Heading Higher….
Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013Dec 21, 2013 – 11:29 AM GMTBy: Jack_Steiman
An interesting week to be sure. Wednesday when he tapered just enough to start the ball rolling, but not so much that folks are fearful of the entire liquidity pool being drained out […]
“So the Fed kept filling up the punch bowl and instead of going into inflation of goods prices, it went into an inflation of asset prices. That’s inflation in the same way, but it’s not called inflation. So if the stock market goes up and doubles, we don’t say, ‘Oh, my God—there’s been inflation!’ Or, if housing prices double, we […]
(Editors’ Note: This article covers a micro-cap stock. Please be aware of the risks associated with these stocks.)There’s no doubt about it – gold is an unloved and unwanted investment these days to all but the hardiest of precious metals investors, the retail Chinese investor, and according to Brent Johnson of Santiago Capital, those who believe in math. If you […]
Why pay E*Trade or Scottrade $7 to trade a stock when you could do it for free? That premise helped mobile investment app startup Robinhood raise the $3 million seed round led by Index Ventures it announced today. With zero-commission trading it will launch next month, Robinhood is out to prove that young people do care about trading stocks — […]
Its that time of the week for the usual technical update across the major asset markets.The Swiss team stick to their bullish theme of forecasting a likely near term bottom for the US indexes and a buying opportunity therefore. They also stick to their medium term view that a deeper Q1 2014 7 to 10% correction is a likely event.Here […]
