President Obama’s highly anticipated speech on government surveillance practices also took aim at commercial data practices, putting the data-driven marketing industry on notice.
“Corporations of all shapes and sizes track what you buy, store and analyze your data, and use it for commercial purposes,” Obama said. “That’s how those targeted ads pop up on your computer and your smartphone periodically,” he […]
Benchmarks tanked significantly on Monday following concerns about corporate earnings numbers and comments from a Fed official hinting at additional tapering. There was hardly any good news for the markets and the triple-digit loss for the Dow dragged it to its worst single-day loss in almost four months. Energy stocks traded lower following a dip in oil prices.For a look […]
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REUTERSEarlier today, Nuveen’s Bob Doll explained how he came to his 10 predictions for the markets in 2014.
Regarding stocks, he thinks it should be another up-year for the market.”On the back of very strong equity market performance in 2013, it is hard to conclude that equities haven’t “stolen” some 2014 returns,” he said. “Accordingly, while we think equities will experience […]
Everyone is looking for bubbles these days. I, too, am looking for bubbles, so I do not feel alone.The problem is…how do you identify a bubble.Alan Greenspan is famous for saying one time that a bubble cannot be identified, before it bursts! The conclusion he drew from this is that monetary policy cannot fight a bubble…because…if you cannot identify […]
Every quarter, JP Morgan Funds’ David Kelly produces a fantastic presentation on the markets and the economy. And in recent quarters, he has included this chart on S&P 500 inflection points.It tracks the S&P 500 since the 1990s as it made its way through two bubble and two crashes.The third and current rally in this chart always seemed more reasonable […]
NEW YORK – The stock market closed out a record year with more all-time highs on Tuesday, giving U.S. indexes their biggest annual gains in almost two decades.The Standard & Poor’s 500 index notched its best year since 1997; The Dow Jones industrial average rose the most since 1995.While trading was light on the last day of the year, […]
REUTERS/Juan Carlos UlateThat’s a big bull.See AlsoHere’s What 14 Top Wall Street Strategists Are Saying About The Stock Market In 2014Bank Of America Economist Torpedoes One Of The Main Arguments For Impending InflationGERARD MINACK: 3 Words Explain Why Stocks Are No Longer Sensitive To Economic SurprisesThe 2013 mega-rally in the stock market caught Wall Street’s top forecasters completely by surprise.
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NEW YORK CITY (CNN)-Despite a recent string of positive economic news, Americans say they aren’t feeling the improvements.A new CNN/ORC poll released Friday showed people were pessimistic that the economy was improving. Nearly 70% said the economy is generally in poor shape, and only 32% rated it good.Two-thirds of respondents said most of the economic news they’ve heard recently was […]
Another Stock Market Bubble Looking for a Pin – Crash Forecast 2014
Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Dec 26, 2013 – 08:08 PM GMTBy: Toby_Connor
Well the Fed in its infinite wisdom has gone and done it again. They’ve created another bubble. And this bubble is arguably the 6th in the last 13 […]
