Submitted by Chris Martenson of PeakProsperity.comThe Stock Market’s Shaky FoundationAccording to the stock markets in the US and in Europe, the world’s economy is not just in good shape, but is in the best shape it’s ever been. The S&P 500 hit an intraday new record high of 1,858.71 on Feb 24, 2014, and is now 18.6% above the peak […]
“And in the near future, we’ll also have some other monetization strategies that current brokerages aren’t using, including API access and premium features for active investors. An important thing to note is that Robinhood isn’t focused on profits right now. We’re focused on building an awesome user experience. That being said, we have these standard monetization revenue streams, […]
Stock Market Napalm – Can You Hear the Popping Sounds?Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Feb 08, 2014 – 06:43 PM GMTBy: Ty_Andros
Once again the smell of NAPALM is in the air. Reversals in liquidity and Massive markets reaction to PUNY emerging market outflows PROBABLY signals the next waves of insolvencies are […]
Adding to the sour mood was a sell off in emerging markets, with some impacted by the broader sell off, such as Mexico and Chile, and others reeling on their own stories, like Argentina, Turkey and Brazil. Brazil was impacted by China but also negative comments from Pimco on its finances. (Read more: Brazil’s Rousseff tries to woo […]
The current stock market rally has been a pretty smooth, upward ride for investors.But it’s been a whopping 553 days since we’ve been in a healthy 10%+ sell-off.Are we past due for a correction?”A correction is not past due,” writes David Bianco in his 2014 outlook.Bianco runs us through the history of corrections in his note:S&P 500 corrections of […]
Fear and greed — the two emotions that dominate the stock market. In 2008, as he was buying stocks during the depths of the financial crisis, Warren Buffett famously said that you want to be greedy when others are fearful.Of course the truth works the other way as well. You want to be fearful when others are greedy. The […]
Stocks are at all-time highs, and anyone invested in the market has reason to be happy.But that’s just it. It’s only the people who are investing who have gotten a piece of this 3.5-year-long bull market, which has seen the S&P 500 explode 170%According to Gallup’s annual Economics and Personal Finance survey, which was conducted in April, just 52% of […]
Stocks are at all-time highs, and anyone invested in the market has reason to be happy.But that’s just it. It’s only the people who are investing who have gotten a piece of this 3.5-year-long bull market, which has seen the S&P 500 explode 170%According to Gallup’s annual Economics and Personal Finance survey, which was conducted in April, just 52% of […]
From 19 to 21 April 2013, the University of Lausanne in Switzerland hosted an international conference on the subject of ‘Emotion, Affect, and Sentiment: The Language and Aesthetics of Feeling’. Agnieszka Soltysik, Andreas Langlotz, and Juliette Vuille organised the conference on behalf of the Swiss Association of University Teachers of English (SAUTE). Here, Mary Flannery and Juliette Vuille reflect on […]
