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"Drought" Surrounding Last Stock Market High Is "Something To …

Via Dana Lyons’ Tumblr,.50-day “droughts” before and after a 52-week high in the Dow Jones Industrial Average have marked several major tops.It has now been 64 days since the last 52-week high in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) on May 19. While that may seem like an eternity in the context of the past 2.5 years, it’s not at […]

Chuwong case a wake-up call for transparency in stock trading – The …

The mystery gets deeper as a stockbroker is also involved in transfers. A stockbroker and her mum have told police they received separately more than Bt30 million worth of shares from Chuwong.The transaction happened four days before his death.Chuwong’s signatures in the stock-transfer transactions are a part of the police investigation into whether his death was an accident or a […]

Deflationary Boom 2.0, Commodity Index Crashes To 13 Year Lows

The Bloomberg Commodity Index tumbled once again today, hitting its lowest level since 2002. Stocks did not. We have seen this kind of ‘deflationary’ boom before and it did not end well…*)As BofAML somewhat mockingly reflected; It’s a deflationary boom. Nasdaq hits all-time high today; CRB breaking down to 2002 lows. Wall St narrative flips from crash to boom/bubble as […]

Why Investors are Now Searching Out Active Funds

by Joshua Brown, The Reformed BrokerThe pendulum always swings too far in both directions. I would tell you the ratio of passive fund inflows to active fund inflows over the last few years but I can’t because the latter category would be a negative integer.Instead, I’ll just tell you that almost 100 cents of every dollar has gone into index […]

Greece Saved the Biotech Bull Market! – Daily Reckoning

Biotechs rise on Greece ‘No’ Vote!Amazing news, right? I mean, who would think the news out of Greece would push biotech stocks higher?But apparently it did. The Greek people let the world know they ain’t interested in more austerity (not that they really had any). Meanwhile, biotechs were the strongest group of stocks on the market to kick off the […]

Greece Saved the Biotech Bull Market!

Biotechs rise on Greece ‘No’ Vote!Amazing news, right? I mean, who would think the news out of Greece would push biotech stocks higher?But apparently it did. The Greek people let the world know they ain’t interested in more austerity (not that they really had any). Meanwhile, biotechs were the strongest group of stocks on the market to kick off the […]

Language Log » The stock market warrior-desperado's last-ditch fight

« previous post | next post »Chǎogǔ 炒股 (lit., “stir-fry stock”) means playing with stocks and bonds (stock market speculation). This is probably THE hottest term in the PRC vocabulary today. The term itself is not in the following widely circulating cartoon, but the spirit of the term is very much present:Complete translation:rén zài zhèndì zài 人在阵地在 (lit., “people [rén […]

The truth about future stock returns? You can't handle … – MarketWatch

Legendary investor Howard Marks likes to quote Albert Einstein: “I never think about the future — it comes soon enough.”But as Marks writes in his recent memo to clients of Oaktree Capital Management: “We can’t take that approach as investors, however. We have to think about the future. We just shouldn’t accord too much significance to our opinions.”Yet the pressure […]

How to Pick Companies to Pitch in Hedge Fund and Private Equity Case Studies in 5 Simple Steps

Some decisions in life deserve serious, thoughtful contemplation.Other times, you have to make a split-second decision and live with the consequences.Picking companies to pitch in hedge fund and private equity case studies falls somewhere in the middle.If you already have a few companies in mind, you need to decide on one quickly – but if you have no clue where […]

Stock Market Wild Swings Coming! :: The Market Oracle :: Financial …

Stock Market Wild Swings Coming!Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015May 31, 2015 – 05:39 PM GMTBy: Brad_GudgeonLast time I wrote, the market looked toppy and I was anticipating a 2.5 week low Tuesday (which used to be the dominant 5 week lo). We rallied Wednesday after the expected selling then sold off the rest of the week. I had said that […]