APSee AlsoHere’s What Stocks Do When Interest Rates Are RisingHere Are 10 Things We Learned About The Economy And Markets In 2013The Weekend Is Over And Markets Are Mostly Drifting LowerWhen the Turkish stock market dives 5.2% like it did yesterday, it drags the world down with it.
Of course, it dragged down the iShares MSCI Turkey ETF (which also fell […]
Editor’s Note: Todd posts his vibes in real time each day on our Buzz & Banter. “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” -Attributed to Albert EinsteinI wrote Seems Like Old Times in May 2007. It was an effort to draw attention to elements nestled within our socio-economic sphere that spooked […]
I think most investors would agree that as the year began they did not expect the Standard & Poor’s 500 to have risen 27% by Thanksgiving. Stocks have continually worked their way higher, with the only meaningful corrections occurring in June, August and October when the talk of reducing the $85 billion a month monetary easing program picked up (June, […]
Now that the U.S. government shutdown is behind us it is instructive to review what we went without for those weeks. Recently writing for the Financial Times, Robin Harding reported that experts feared that the U.S. government would be “flying blind” without access to the big data collected by the government, and which was imperiled by the shutdown.We would have been […]
REUTERS/Kim Kyung-HoonThe Great Hall of the People, where the Chinese Communist Party plenum is being held, is seen behinds red flags in Tiananmen square in Beijing November 12, 2013.HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) – A document purporting to detail reform plans by China’s ruling Communist Party, including liberalizing the prices of resources and reining in some state monopolies, circulated widely on social […]
