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When the Dow crashed 514 points on August 8, the market lost a staggering $850 billion in market capitalization. High frequency traders were possibly responsible…
Down, then up, then down again. How about that? I believe that the global risk markets will bottom sooner than people think, and that the…
Take a look at the chart for the emerging market ETF (EEM) below and you will be surprised to see how well it has held…
I received some questions last week on my recent solar pieces as to whether I minded paying more money for “green” power. My answer is…
I believe that the risk markets are discounting a recession that isn’t going to happen. Not yet, anyway. So I am going to start adding…
When I went to bed late last night, the (SPX) was trading down 30 points, and I was thinking “here we go again”. When I…
I don’t think that we are going into recession immediately. I believe that we can eke out a few more quarters of 2% ish type…
At long last, after months of warnings, leaks, hand wringing, and speculation, Standard and Poor’s has at last downgraded US Treasury bonds a notch to…
What to say about Thursday’s market? The “RISK OFF” trade had its finest hour. The Dow average WAS down 512 points, NASDAQ (QQQ) cratered by…
The first thing I do when I get up every morning is to curse the oil companies as the blood sucking scourges of modern civilization.…
I spent the morning doing a round robin with hedge fund trader friends of mine trying to figure how we all got this so horribly…
Back in the seventies and eighties, when inflation was soaring well into double digits, the markets were regularly punished by a band of gun slinging…
Another bucket of cold water was thrown on financial markets on Friday with the shocking release of Q2 GDP of 1.3%. The whisper number prior…
The Chinese are nothing if not opportunistic. You may recall that a shocking increase in this year’s corn crop predicted by the US Department of…
The first half of 2011 went out with a bang last week. The S&P 500 delivered an awesome 72 point run, its best performance in…
Grain prices were slaughtered today in the wake of a bombshell of a report from the US Department of Agricultural showing that plantings were much…
The most significant development in the financial markets during my recent sojourns in Europe was the International Energy Agency’s shocking release of strategic petroleum reserves.…
Every day, when considering what to write about, I tell myself that I’m not singing enough praises about India. Then events demand that a topic…
On a map, it appears that the United States is made up of 50 states. The fiscal reality is that we have 20. Portugal’s, 15…
I have long sat beside the table of Mckinsey & Co., the best management consulting company in Asia, hoping to catch some crumbs of wisdom.…