Here we are again, down to the wire for us guys (if you are a guy) to get our Christmas shopping done, with only couple days left before it’s too late. The question many of us are asking ourselves is
December 21, 2015
There are a few correlations that I find particularly compelling. The first is Chinese RMB (or CNY) next to WTI crude oil, as both are proxies in their own way of multi-dimensional crosscurrents between global “dollar” finance and real economy
by Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist IMF statistics show that world GDP fell 4.9% from 2014 to 2015 which is almost as severe a drop as occurred from 2008-2009. Check out the bottom rows of Table A1 in the October 2015 issue of the World Economic
US Final GDP The US Final GDP numbers come out today, so needless to say we will more than likely have quite a bit of focus on the US dollar and possibly the US stock markets. Ultimately, this is a
In some relatively choppy action, U.S. equities managed to close higher on the first session of a Christmas-holiday shortened week in which the U.S. and many international markets will be closed on Friday and the US stock market will close
The next two shortened weeks should feature some attempts to save the year for bulls and those portfolio managers seeking bonuses, even if they’re strangely calculated. Trading this day started out on the rocky side but as trading neared the
Inquiring minds are investigating a 17 page PDF of the U.S. Economy in a Snapshot by the New York Fed. The document is formatted poorly. Nearly every line is an image, requiring retyping or images snips of what appears to be (and
<<< Read: Investing In Quantum Computing – Part 1 I read through Google’s (GOOGL) paper on the D-Wave benchmarks http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.02206. The results really do seem good. Compared to a classical computer running the same type program, the quantum machine was many
For the third quarter, S&P Dow Jones Indices is reporting that on a quarter over quarter basis buybacks for S&P 500 companies increased 14.5% and increased 3.7% on a year over year basis. The dividend plus buyback yield for the
How Did the Stock Market Do Today? Dow Jones: 17,251.62; +123.07; +0.72% S&P 500: 2,021.15; +15.60;+0.78% Nasdaq: 4,968.92; +45.84;+0.93% The Dow Jones Industrial Average today (Monday) added 123 points, fueled by solid gains in large multinational banking stocks. However, the continued downturn in Brent crude oil
