A blog post released by the White House this afternoon suggests the fallout from leaker Edward Snowden’s disclosures last year about the National Security Agency’s widespread surveillance projects will spread far beyond questions about government monitoring.A presidential working group is to examine how large-scale data collection and analysis by the private and public sectors for purposes outside of intelligence or […]
Today was the first truly bad day of 2014 for the stock market. The Dow closed down 175, although off the lows, while the Nasdaq and S&P 500 shed half a percent each. In the recent past, these have been shrugged off. But that was in the pre-taper environment, when dips were scarce and corrections were federally outlawed.
Today “felt” different […]
The shares of Lodon Stock Exchange Group (LSE: LSE) added 27p to 1,881p this morning after it reported a strong third quarter, with total income up nearly 50%.The group, which delivers trading systems among its principle activities, saw total revenue climb to £272 million in the months ended 31 December.Future outlook is simarly positive with revenues in capital markets rising […]
The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) has awarded an Indian firm a contract to install an automated trading platform (ATS) as it seeks to mordernise one of Africa’s best performing bourses.InfoTech Middle East FFZ-LC beat bidders from countries such as Sweden and the United States to land the contract.there are companies which have already shown that they might mergeThe trading platform, […]
Martin Luther King, Jr. had many dreams. A unifier and peaceful warrior whose warmth and strength made him a compelling leader, he may also have foreseen the future— as we know it today—while writing his last book, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, which was published nearly half a century ago. With our current social systems in […]
Did We See Stock Market Cycle Top Last Week?Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jan 20, 2014 – 03:30 PM GMTBy: Anthony_Cherniawski
I have been reviewing my long-term charts and have been updating them. I was surprised when I discovered that today (January 18) is exactly 5.16 years from the November 21, 2008 low in the NDX. I […]
CIBC World Markets analysts are bullish on Canada in 2014, following a year in which Canadian stocks lagged many of their developed world counterparts.Now find out Citigroup’s top 23 stocks in the U.S. marketWith stock market correlations down, 2014 is likely to reward the savvy investors who know how to pick stocks. Check them out“The valuation discount relative to the […]
Stock Market Diamond is BackStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jan 11, 2014 – 06:36 PM GMTBy: Anthony_Cherniawski
The Diamond Formation is back, which is really quite exciting. You can see that the SPX closed right at its hourly Cycle Top as well as the down-slope trendline of the Diamond with all […]
Stock Market 2014 – Can Yen Carry Trade Offset Fed QE Tapering?Stock-Markets / Quantitative EasingJan 08, 2014 – 07:13 PM GMTBy: Gary_Dorsch
For the Nasdaq-100 Index, the Bull market turned five years old in November. Wall Street hopes the hard-charging Nasdaq Bull – that has more than tripled investors’ money since Nov 2008 is still […]
REUTERS/Sue OgrockiI gotta rethink my strategy.During a presentation this morning, Nuveen’s chief equity strategist Bob Doll offered his longer-term forecasts alongside his predictions for 2014. Here are his five long-term themes:
Economic power and financial wealth continue to shift from developed to emerging world (although cyclical issues have interrupted this)
Emerging market consumers set the pace for global growth with an […]
