Sometime around last Thursday afternoon the mood in the market went from concerned to “totally freaked out”. It is a trifecta of concerns that have investors on the edge. Chinese growth is slowing. The American employment picture is not good. And Europe is in the middle of a dangerous debt crisis.
February 8th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 17 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "investor"
More Quantitative Easing by Fed has Markets Spooked About Inflation
Bullard said, that, “If the economy came in very weak, let’s say, in 2010, weaker than expected, we would have the option of doing further quantitative easing.” The Fed would do this through additional asset purchases, presumably with more, uh, “money” it created.
November 24th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 43 comments | Continued
S&P 500 Heading Towards Some Major Long Term Resistance Levels
A 10 year chart of the S+P is probably the most interesting chart for showing the overall market dynamics at the moment. And though the S&P 500 tracks America’s 500 biggest stocks, it’s usually a good proxy…
November 20th, 2009 | Murray Dawes | 0 comments | Continued
Peak Oil – The Rewards
Our story begins with “Peak Oil” – the belief that conventional production of crude has already peaked, and has already slipped into an irreversible decline.
October 29th, 2009 | Byron King | 0 comments | Continued
Financial Markets Have Clearly Rallied
If it’s true that markets lead economies, markets are telling us that things are going to get much better. The FTSE index of emerging markets is up 99% from its March lows. The S&P 500 is up nearly 60%. And gold itself is up 25%, with much of that move coming in the last few weeks.
September 21st, 2009 | Dan Denning | 10 comments | Continued
Debt and Deficits Do Matter
We are told that for example debt doesn’t matter because if a company takes out a certain level of debt, say a very low level of say 10% debt to equity, that’s irrelevant to the company’s value because the person buying shares in that company can take out 90% debt to equity ratio.
September 9th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 2 comments | Continued
Peak Oil: Supply Data Doesn’t Lie
Remember, Peak Oil doesn’t mean that we are running out of oil reserves, crude will be around for decades. However, ‘Peak Oil’ does imply that we are dangerously close to peak global oil production.
August 27th, 2009 | Puru Saxena | 3 comments | Continued
Sometimes Technical Analysis Sounds Like a Foreign Language
Your editor does not pick up foreign languages easily. But just for grins, we asked Gabriel to try his technical speak on the CRB commodities index. It’s been up, then way down, then back up. We wondered-all the fundamentals of supply, demand, growth, and recession aside-what the index looks like to trader with an eye for patterns and mind full of oscillators.
August 5th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 22 comments | Continued
American Banking System is a Branch of the Federal Government
You probably know the old Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times.” I heard it first 30 years ago from an economics professor – my mentor, in fact. He was lecturing about the problems Austrian economic models predict when banking is controlled by government.
July 8th, 2009 | Patrick Cox | 1 comment | Continued
When Fears of Inflation Are More Pronounced
But let us not be accused of being pessimists. Take a look at the chart below. It’s from a 2002 book called Triumph of the Optimists by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Stanton of Princeton University. It shows that over the last one hundred years-and importantly, prior to the blow-off phase of the credit bubble in 2000-dividends accounted for half of your total return in U.S. and U.K. common stocks.
July 7th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 1 comment | Continued