We’re going on 3 months since our last trading update. It’s not been because of poor performance (although there is that) but more our busy schedule and chosen day of the week to update. Typically we update our models and spreadsheets after Friday’s close and then update the blog afterwards however with summer approaching and the thermometer creeping up we […]
I just had to share the following testimonial, received yesterday from one of my Weekly “Counts” Webinar subscribers:—“Sid,I wanted to thank you for the incredible research and analysis that you provide by giving you a brief history on me and how my account is exploding to the upside since I started following you and attending your webinars.After the economic meltdown […]
Overnight “manic-selling” in global bond markets (and turmoil in stock markets) has been met – suddenly – this morning by “panic-buying” as mysteriously liquid buyers lift stocks back into the green and send bond yields plunging (right after Euronext breaks)…Europe…And US…As Bloomberg adds,
“At some point the stress on stocks, risk assets, from either earnings fears or higher rates surely has […]
RobinhoodBaiju Bhatt and Vladimir Tenev.See AlsoAndreessen Horowitz VC Chris Dixon: In the next few years, we’ll see 10 companies worth a billion dollars in New YorkSean Rad gave a cringeworthy defense for why Tinder charges its older users more moneyUber has delivered 30 million rides in New York City since launching four years agoInspired by the 2011 Occupy Wall Street […]
Today marks the five year anniversary of the Flash Crash, the day in 2010 when the US stock market fell drastically in a matter of minutes then recovered most of the losses.Unlike sharp declines in the past, the Flash Crash happened for apparently no reason. Since then the government has launched multiple inquiries into what happened and recently charged a […]
Stock Market Last Hurrah?Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015May 04, 2015 – 07:20 PM GMTBy: Andre_GratianCurrent Position of the MarketSPX: Long-term trend – The bull market is still intact.Intermediate trend – Is the 7-yr cycle sketching an important top?Analysis of the short-term trend is done on a daily basis with the help of hourly charts. They are important adjuncts to the […]
Mike Bird
May 1, 2015, 2:37 AM
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China’s stock market has exploded over the last year — over the last 16 months, in fact, the Shanghai Composite Index has more than doubled.Activity has been particularly frenetic in the first few months of this year, and stocks are up by 37% since January 1. That’s driven by an absolutely enormous wave of new […]
Wikimedia CommonsMorgan Stanley’s US equity strategy team published a note Monday titled “We Are Full of Bull.”In it, strategist Adam Parker identifies a multitude of reasons to be bullish.However, many of the more bearish folk continue to point to the S&P 500’s price-to-forward-earnings ratio (P/E), which at 17x is not reflective of a cheap market.Parker actually believes the stock market […]
ReutersOn Thursday morning, the employment cost index, or ECI, for the first quarter will be released. Unlike the average hourly earnings number released in the monthly jobs report, the ECI is a more comprehensive measure of compensation, taking into account things like how much employers spend on things like benefits in addition to wages. Currently expectations are for the report to show […]
ReutersOn Thursday morning, the employment cost index, or ECI, for the first quarter will be released. Unlike the average hourly earnings number released in the monthly jobs report, the ECI is a more comprehensive measure of compensation, taking into account things like how much employers spend on things like benefits in addition to wages. Currently expectations are for the report to show […]
