Forex Trade Signals: AUD/JPY Countertrend Setup – June 16, 2014By Forexminute – Samuel Rae | Technical Outlook | Jun 16, 2014 6:31AM BSTOn its daily forex chart, AUD/JPY is giving forex trade signals by testing the top of the rising channel with stochastic reflecting overbought conditions. Price might pull up for a test of the actual resistance around […]
With the VIX smashing last week to levels not seen since early 2007, the S&P rising to all time highs, and European core and peripheral bond yield this morning touching historic lows, it would appear that the “market” has priced in every possible negative outcome. Which, as Goldman showed over the weekend is clearly not the case at least as […]
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 […]
Richard Saul Wurman isn’t a fan of President Barack Obama’s push for data.gov, an online repository for big data. “That’s just politicians talking,” the 79-year-old TED (technology, entertainment, design) conference founder told me. “I think there will be a pushback saying, ‘We don’t understand all this fucking data.’” The way Wurman sees it, that bulk collection of raw information has […]
Bespoke Investment Group is out with an informative table showing the performance of stock markets in 75 countries, ranked by year-to-date performance. In pole position: Dubai, which has gained more than 50% on the year. Qatar, Argentina, and Bulgaria follow. In last place: Japan and Russia, which have both fallen more than 13%. You also may want to avoid Jamaican-listed […]
The always popular and controversial Martin Armstrong, creator of the widely cited Economic Confidence Model, gave some interesting predictions for the market along with his thoughts on Putin and Russia in a recent Financial Sense Newshour interview. Here are some excerpts:FSN: Martin, you have a wide following with investors and host large conferences around the globe. What are you telling […]
The question of the day is relatively straightforward at this time: Will we see a meaningful decline (defined as a loss of -10 percent or more) on the S&P 500 in the near term or not?From the bears’ perspective, the answer is an unequivocal “yes.” Our furry friends cite the ongoing mo-mo meltdown [Social Media (SOCL), Internet (FDN), and Biotech […]
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Why A Stock Market Collapse Would Be A Good ThingStock-Markets / Financial CrashApr 28, 2014 – 06:26 PM GMTBy: Raul_I_Meijer
I’m not going to argue here that a market collapse would be a positive thing no matter what, because the implications of a true collapse would be so deep and widespread that they’re too hard for […]
