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Gold Stocks: The Great Contrarian Trade Of 2014? | Asia Confidential

Gold: where too from here?Why gold miners are so hatedWhich miners appear ok valueCaveatsIn my experience, one of the singular best investment strategies is to buy assets/asset classes which are most reviled by investors. By reviled, I mean assets where a mere mention of you wanting to invest in them generates nervous sniggers among others, if not howling laughter. Where […]

We Could Easily Have A Major Stock Market Crash Much Worse …

We Could Easily Have A Major Stock Market Crash Much Worse Than 2008, Total Credit Market Debt (TCMD) Growth Is Not Confirming The New DJIA High At All
Nope, No Bubbles AnywherePresented with no comment (because, quite frankly, none is needed…)Chart: Der Spiegelhttp://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-13/nope-no-bubbles-anywhereAbout That “Bull Market Til 2016″ Call: Before You Buy the Dip, Check Out This Chart   (December 13, 2013) If […]

Wall Street Market Predictions For 2014 – Business Insider

Wikimedia CommonsStocks are going up.It’s time to stop reflecting on 2013 and start thinking about 2014.
We thumbed through hundreds of pages of Wall Street’s 2014 outlook notes and compiled the thoughts of 14 top stock market forecasters.The average S&P 500 call was 1,949, with a median of 1,950. For EPS, the mean was $118 and median call was $116.Here are […]

Hong Kong's Stock Exchange – The Dollar Vigilante

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[Editor’s Note: The following post is by TDV contributor, Jayant Bhandari, writing from India. It is exerpted from this week’s TDV Dispatch, which you can subscribe to here.] I have devoted the last 8 years analyzing companies in the junior resource sector. I still […]

Stock Market Analysis: Markets Consolidate Trading Sideways Again

* US stock markets rose steadily from the open and held on to early gains despite some profit taking mid-session.* European stock markets rose the most in two weeks, after German consumer confidence and UK growth were better than expected.* Asian markets edged lower across the region for a second session, as traders took profits with stock valuations at six […]

Sentiment Analytics Gives The Wisdom Of The Crowd: Social Media …

Immensity with which the social networks are growing is unprecedented in its own way. Facebook consists of roughly 1 billion users, twitter has 500 million users, LinkedIn has over 225 million users, Pinterest has more than 10 million users, Instagram uploads 5 millions images everyday and Google+ receives 5 billion +1’s daily.This is not enough, there are Asian networking sites […]

Asian stocks trade sideways ahead of US holiday | iPolitics

MANILA, Philippines – Asian stock markets mostly traded sideways Tuesday after a lull in Wall Street’s record-breaking run ahead of a U.S. holiday.Japan’s Nikkei 225 fell 0.5 per cent to 15,546.26 while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng added 0.2 per cent to 23,735.29. China’s Shanghai Composite Index was nearly unchanged at 2,186.40. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.4 per cent to 5,371.30 […]

Reality check for US stock markets after day of record highs …

US stock markets rose after incoming Fed chair Janet Yellen calmed fears the central bank might begin to taper its bond-buying programme before next year. Photograph: Richard Drew/APAmerican stock indices the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq ended lower on Monday while the Dow failed to close above its milestone level of 16,000 as stocks were sold off late following […]

Chinese Reform Plan Leaks And The Stock Market Surges …

REUTERS/Kim Kyung-HoonThe Great Hall of the People, where the Chinese Communist Party plenum is being held, is seen behinds red flags in Tiananmen square in Beijing November 12, 2013.HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) – A document purporting to detail reform plans by China’s ruling Communist Party, including liberalizing the prices of resources and reining in some state monopolies, circulated widely on social […]

SENTIRE 2014 : 4th edition of Sentiment Elicitation from Natural …

Apologies for cross-posting,
Submissions are invited for the 4th edition of Sentiment Elicitation from
Natural Text for Information Retrieval and Extraction (SENTIRE), the IEEE ICDM
workshop series on opinion mining. The term SENTIRE comes from the Latin feel
and it is root of words such as sentiment and sensation. SENTIRE aims to provide
an international forum for researchers in the field of opinion mining and
sentiment […]