Recent sharp gains in the U.S. dollar <.DXY> have increased worries about the currency’s impact on the earnings of U.S. multinationals. S&P 500 earnings projections for the first quarter and for 2015 have fallen sharply since Jan. 1.Among early reporters, Nike (>> Nike Inc) jumped 3.7 percent to $101.98 as the biggest boost to the Dow after it posted a […]
Skynet is the world’s largest hedge fund – tasked with sucking in as much money as possible. Like any good hedge fund (aka. call option), what happens once it’s all in there, is strictly someone else’s fucking problem.We’re just waiting for the word ‘patient’ to bring down the global financial system…Gaps all over the place now, two filled today, three […]
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Credit SuisseSee AlsoThe German pizza arbitrage is over for the SwissBARRON’S: For Nasdaq 5,000, this time it’s differentGOLDMAN: Here are the 18 stocks that hedge funds love the mostSex sells. So do booze, guns, and tobacco.In its new Global Investment Returns Yearbook, Credit Suisse compared two mutual funds that launched around the same time in […]
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Feb. 19, 2015, 4:24 AM
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The global stock market looks very different today than it did 115 years ago.From Credit Suisse’s new Global Investment Returns Yearbook:”Figure 1 shows the relative market capitalizations of world equity markets at our base date of end-1899. Figure 2 shows how they had changed by end-2014. Markets that are not included in the Yearbook dataset […]
In 2014, the Green Economy — dominating the media enviro beat and UN negotiations since well before the 2012 Rio Earth Summit – merged and morphed into the Sharing Economy and the Maker Economy to offer us a vision of Transformative Transnationalism. But, is this really a new Triple Bottom-line or just the same old Triple-Bottom Feeders? ETC Group takes […]
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Wikimedia CommonsSee Also5 Ways A Low Oil Price Affects The Global Political LandscapeBILL GROSS: ‘The Good Times Are Over’It’s Like We’re In The Panic Phase Of A Financial CrisisTuesday was another ugly day on Wall Street.And we almost had another “since 2008” stat that stock bulls weren’t going to like.Earlier on Tuesday, the S&P 500 was […]
Worldwide Incongruities: Rising Monetary Bases, Decreasing PricesGary North – December 03, 2014Doug Nolan writes the Prudent Bear column. In his column for November 28, he summarized today’s worldwide insanity.First, the fall in the price of oil.On the back of OPEC’s failure to cut production, crude this week sank $10.36, or 13.5%, to the lowest price since May 2010. The Goldman […]
Editor’s note: Nuria Oliver is a scientific director at Telefonica looking at how the use of big data can help to fight pandemics such as Ebola and bird flu.Last year, I gave a talk at WIRED 2013 on how anonymous and aggregated mobile phone data can be used to understand and combat the spread of infectious diseases. I described a study that we […]
One of the difficulties with using virtual systems is that it’s harder to measure performance. Now though data insights specialist CloudPhysics is launching a new Global Insights tool to allow VMware users to continuously benchmark their virtual infrastructure against global metrics.This is part of enhancements to its SaaS solution which include interactive Daily Insights, that dynamically aggregate and expose operational […]
This isn’t a Stock Market Bubble, but it Could Become OneBy Cullen Roche· Wednesday,August20th,2014Last year I asked if we are in a stock market bubble. My answer was no. Much of the basis for that thinking was that sentiment was just too bearish in general. There has been a tremendous amount of skepticism about the economy and the stock market […]
