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The Shanghai Composite Index is down again this morning by a massive 3.6%, causing considerable technical damage. In addition to breaking trend support, the Index has breached its 200-day moving average. This is a rather ominous picture for Chinese stocks and could also be spelling danger for global stock markets. [...] More on this topic (What's this?) The Dow Reaches a Four-Year High (Wall Street Daily, 5/2/12) DJIA Chart – Trading Channel or Not? (My Trader's Journal, 5/13/12) Dwolla: Threat to the Financial Services Industry? (Investment U, 4/24/12)  By Prieur du Plessis, on December 28th, 2010 posted in: Investment, Markets, Money  Leave your comment
A video-o-rama of four interviews on a wide range of topical issues, featuring Stiglitz and Roubini. [...] More on this topic (What's this?) Weekly Leading Index (Comments for thetechnicaltake, 4/30/12) Interoute’s Revenue Surged in 2011 (Telecom Ramblings, 4/23/12) Before Making That 2011 IRA Contribution, Make Sure Your Pension Plan Assets are Safe (Money Morning, 3/30/12)  By Prieur du Plessis, on December 28th, 2010 posted in: Investment, Stocks 2 people had their say - chime in!
Doug Short maintains a particularly interesting suite of stock market charts on his site dshort.com. By means of example, he has just updated his chart entitled “Real mega-bears”, an inflation-adjusted overlay of three secular bear markets. It aligns the current S&P 500 from the top of the tech bubble in March 2000, the Dow from 1929 peak, and the Nikkei 225 from its 1989 bubble high. Click through for the image … [...] More on this topic (What's this?) Economist Gary Shilling: S&P 500 will drop 43% this year? (Value Investing, 4/11/12) Is This Bull Market Over? (Investment U, 4/16/12) Sell in May and Go Away? No Way! (Wall Street Daily, 5/10/12)
China’s rate hike is the first of many global rate hikes to come, according to Peter Boockvar, an equity strategist at Miller Tabak. [...] By Prieur du Plessis, on December 28th, 2010 posted in: Investment lessons, Markets, Money Leave your comment
Through the “noise” of the year-end soothsaying contests, Ramond James’s Chief Investment Strategist Jeffrey Saut reminds us of some simple investment lessons. He specifically refers to those published by Arthur Ziekel in The Financial Analysts Journal in 1995. Ziekel at the time was head of Merrill Lynch Asset Management and penned the lessons as a letter to his daughter, as reported in this post. [...] More on this topic (What's this?) Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics (Finance Documentaries, 5/18/12) How Does Gridlock Apply to the Investment World? (Investing School, 3/19/12) Should You Invest in Structured Settlement Investments? (Investing School, 4/13/12)
David Rosenberg, chief economist at Gluskin Sheff & Associates, tells CNBC another decline in housing prices is being underestimated. [...] More on this topic (What's this?) U.K. Slips into Double-Dip Recession (Wall Street Daily, 4/25/12) Case-Shiller Home Price Index and Home Sales: What the Latest U.S. Housing Market Data Show (Money Morning, 4/24/12) Twitter Digest: 2012-04-02 (Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed, 4/3/12) |
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