Yves here. This post, which ran in the second week of July, provides important background on how and why Chinese authorities ramped the stock market, and what the ramifications of the its implosion are likely to be.By Alicia García-Herrero, Chief Economist for Asia Pacific at NATIXIS, Senior Fellow st Bruegel and non-resident research fellow at Real Instituto El Cano. Originally […]
Author: Joshua Kurlantzick, Senior Fellow for Southeast AsiaJuly 23, 2015BloombergShare–
The spectacle of the stock market meltdown in China has led many analysts and investors to see an upside to the downturn. The slump is “the most serious crisis” facing President Xi Jinping “since he came to power,” China commentator Willy Lam told an audience of academics in Vancouver on July […]
Brandon Fleisher’s parents can thank his eighth-grade math teacher for a lot — $99,000, to be exact.The teacher asked students to pick a stock to follow. Brandon chose Avalon Rare Metals, which hit an all-time high that spring, CNN Money reports.That was four years ago. From there, the Toronto teenager started trading on paper and ultimately became so good his parents […]
ECB’s Greek ploy grabs Gartman’s attention
Discussing how earnings; Europe and oil impacted today’s trade, with Dennis Gartman of the Gartman Letter; CNBC contributor Herb Greenberg and CNBC’s Jeff Cox.
The rocky market action of the past week or so has prompted noted investor Dennis Gartman to issue a warning to his fellow investors: Be careful.”Use puts, use positions to defend yourself. […]
Google searches can predict stock market crashes – studyPublished time: July 29, 2014 17:43Get short URLReuters / Lucas JacksonTagsInternet, Markets, SciTechGoogle searches for various business and politics topics can predict future stock market crashes, according to a new study.Researchers at the Warwick Business School analyzed search terms between 2004 and 2012, finding an increase in internet searches preceded market falls.The […]
By Rachel Goldfarb, originally published on Next New DealClick here to subscribe to Roosevelt First, our weekday morning email featuring the Daily Digest.Stiglitz: I’m ‘very uncomfortable’ with current stock levels (CNBC)Roosevelt Institute Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz emphasizes the difference between a strong stock market and overall economic strength, reports Antonia Matthews.Roosevelt Take: William Lazonick looks at the link between the […]
It’s been yet another exciting week in the fast-paced world of analytics with a string of updates spanning the entire data processing lifecycle, from the initial collection stage all the way to the visual presentation of the insights gained along the way. It was RapidMiner that fired the opening shot with the acquisition of fellow startup and longtime strategic partner […]
Hello!I’m Andrew Smithers; I studied economics at Cambridge and used to run the fund management business at S G Warburg which became Mercury Asset Management and is now BlackRock.I set up Smithers & Co in 1989 as an economics consultancy. Much of the comments on economics and markets that I read as a fund manager struck me as nonsense and […]
Hello!I’m Andrew Smithers; I studied economics at Cambridge and used to run the fund management business at S G Warburg which became Mercury Asset Management and is now BlackRock.I set up Smithers & Co in 1989 as an economics consultancy. Much of the comments on economics and markets that I read as a fund manager struck me as nonsense and […]
Technical Analysis Versus Value in Gold By: Alasdair Macleod | Fri, May 16, 2014 SharePrintEmailAt the outset I should declare an interest. In the 1980s I was a member of
the UK’s Society of Technical Analysis and for a while I was the society’s
examiner and lecturer on Elliott Wave Theory. My proudest moment as a technician
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