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With the “Volcker Rule” regarding US financial regulation taking center stage, Paul Volcker’s response to questions on financial innovation at the “Future of Finance Initiative” six weeks ago makes for interesting viewing material. [...]   By Prieur du Plessis, on January 27th, 2010 posted in: Investment, Markets, Money  Leave your comment
This week on Consuelo Mack’s Wealthtrack: successfully navigating Wall Street, investment strategy and stock picking with “financial thought leader” Bob Doll, BlackRock’s Vice Chairman, Global Chief Investment Officer, and manager of three highly respected large cap funds. [...] More on this topic (What's this?) Your Money's All Gone... (Wealth Daily, 12/19/11) Wealthy Congressmen Don't Feel Your Pain (Money Morning, 1/9/12) 5 Stocks Seeing Big Analyst Downgrades (Investment Underground » Page n..., 1/6/12)
“Deleveraging will take place on a global scale and will take many years to resolve. Japan has already suffered two ‘lost decades’ and has still not solved its problem. We expect this to take place globally and will continue to be painful. We honestly don’t want to be correct in this assessment for the global economy, but we can’t see how this deleveraging process and the consequences of the process be avoided,” said Comstock in this guest post. [...]
In “Fear the boom and bust”, John Maynard Keynes and F.A. Hayek, two of the great economists of the 20th century, come back to life to attend a conference on the economic crisis. Before the conference begins, and at the insistence of Lord Keynes, they go out for a night on the town and sing about why there’s a “boom and bust” cycle in modern economies and good reason to fear it … [...] More on this topic (What's this?) The Truth About Washington and Wall Street (Wealth Daily, 9/4/09) Dirty boys go ballistic (CRUDE OIL - A SHRINKING RESOURCE, 12/8/11) Tulipmania (Finance Documentaries, 11/19/11) By Prieur du Plessis, on January 26th, 2010 posted in: Investment, Markets, Money One comment so far
“Where breadth goes, the market usually follows,” goes an old market saying. Breadth indicators are useful tools to assess the inner workings of the market’s rallies or corrections, and are used to identify strength or weakness behind market moves, i.e. to assess how the bulls and the bears are exerting themselves. Click through to the post for a quick assessment of these indicators. [...] |
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