SummaryWar risk is one of three key fear areas today: war, bubbles or overvaluation, and economic slowdown or deflation.
Historical evidence from 1898 shows that US wars have not had an adverse impact on US stocks overall – avoiding stocks due to war has not […]
Benchmarks settled in the green on Friday after promising economic numbers negated overseas tensions. Encouraging economic data on consumer sentiment and Chicago-area business conditions overshadowed concerns related to the Russia-Ukraine crisis and increased terror-threat level in the United Kingdom. Friday’s gains helped the S&P 500 close at a record high. The index finished above the 2k mark for the third […]
Don’t Get Ruined by These 10 Popular Stock Market Investment Myths Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Aug 29, 2014 – 05:24 PM GMTBy: EWI
Interest rates, oil prices, earnings, GDP, wars, terrorist attacks, inflation, monetary policy, etc. — NONE have a reliable effect on the stock market
You may remember that during the 2008-2009 financial crisis, […]
The Stock Market is Getting EdgyStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Aug 28, 2014 – 06:37 PM GMTBy: Anthony_CherniawskiThis morning’s Premarket is down pretty substantially. The news is making things worse for the market that was already in decline at 5:00 am. Although the news may be blamed for the decline, it was already built into the Cycles Model.The high on August […]
Earlier this year, the European Central Bank held a two-day workshop on big data and how it can be used for forecasting. The headline speaker was Hal Varian, chief economist at Google and a number cruncher of rock star status.
Varian outlined the power of Google Trends and Google Correlate, the company’s big data tools. “With Google Trends, you type in […]
SummaryHere I’m gauging the performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average with the Help of the Tocalino Index (applying demographics to a variation on Arthur Melvin Okun’s Misery Index).
The point that stands out recently is the noticeable gap between the rapid rise of the Dow Jones index and the lagging behavior of my own indicator from 2009 onward.
The market seems […]
When it comes to energy access, we’re fond of saying small is big.That’s because all those small scale solar lanterns, solar home systems, and solar mini-grids add up to a very big market. But the size of that market, and its social impact, could well be dwarfed by an even larger opportunity the solar revolution is engendering. With the explosion […]
Bitcoin Technical Analysis 31st JulyBy Forexminute – Yes Option | Bitcoin | Jul 31, 2014 8:14AM BSTBTC/USD on the hourly charts broke below the important support level of $572 which it had been clinging onto since last couple of days. As soon as the support was breached, BTC/USD saw a huge sell off on the back of above average volumes. […]
The Stock Market with Elliott Wave Labels from 1693 to Present Day Reveals a Bear Market Formation Since 2000By: Elliott Wave International | Wed, Jul 30, 2014SharePrintEmailThe following article was adapted from Robert Prechter’s June 2014 issue of The Elliott Wave Theorist, one of the longest-running investment letters in the business, continuously published monthly since 1979.Figure 1 shows the stock […]
All three major US stock indexes fell Friday, capping the largest weekly decline in US stock markets in nearly two months. The catalyst for Friday’s sell-off was a very weak series of sales figures and projections from three corporations tied to consumer spending: Amazon, the largest online retailer; Wal-Mart, the largest brick-and-mortar retailer; and Visa, the credit and debit card […]
