Saturday, May 25, 2013

Japanese Stock Market: Bubbles And Why The Small I...

The NIKKEI 225 (INDEXNIKKEI:NI225) dropped 1,060.23 (-7.32%) to close at 14,483.98 last night. This was after a 30% rise in their ...

Bernanke Vows To Keep The Pedal to The Metal...

The Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is beginning to testifying in front of the Joint Economic Committee. In his opening rema...

Markets Go For 19th Straight Gain On A Tuesday...

Light volume in play, markets slightly positive, media pumping and it looks likely the U.S. stock markets will have their 19th str...

Ego Alert: Jamie Dimon Makes His Biggest Mistake...

Jamie Dimon let his ego get the best of him and it caused a major error in judgement. Often times, ego is the downfall of some of ...

Forget Stocks, It Is The Japanese Yen That Is Movi...

As we all know, almost every central bank in the world is printing money to boost exports and support asset prices in the stock ma...

Intermarket Secular Shifts and the Great Rotation ...

In the introduction to the last Bull Bear Market Report, I further developed the thesis that an impulsive equities bull market beg...

The Fed, QE, the Economy and Goldilocks 2.0...

It was never easy being a central banker and the job has become much more difficult over the course of the last five years or so, ...

Waveform cross correlation for seismic monitoring ...

A new working paper is available on arxiv.org This is a link to pdf file. AbstractWaveform cross correlation is an efficient tool ...

ETPs Turn to Selling Options to Generate Income...

Not long after I penned The Options and Volatility ETPs Landscape, Credit Suisse (CS) added another buy-write / covered call ETP t...

Solar Soars Again: Is A Pull Back Looming?...

Solar stocks are staging another huge rally today. First Solar, Inc.(NASDAQ:FSLR) is trading at $51.65, +2.31 (4.68%). This stock ...

Why Gavyn Davies is wrong about employment targeti...

Gavyn Davies criticise the Fed for wrong money policy targeting on unemployment rate, UER,  instead of the rate of emplo...

Base Metal Stocks On The Rise...

This morning, the leading base and industrial metal stocks are all moving higher at the start of the trading session. This importa...

Dead Biotech Plays Surge To Life...

Hammered small cap biotech stocks are jumping today, another sign investors are searching for anything with even a faint pulse to ...

How Long Will The Printing Party Last?...

We all know that asset prices (stocks) are being supported by the central bank’s easy money policies. Leading central banks ...

Top 5 Reasons You Know Another Stock Market Bubble...

Almost every day, the U.S. markets hit new all time highs. With rampant unemployment, low jobs growth and an ugly global economy, ...

A fourty-year period of energy price oscillation...

Figure 1. The difference between the headline and core CPI (both seasonally adjusted) since 1957.  The V-shape suggests the s...

Employment in Canada revisited...

Two years ago we presented a parsimonious model describing the evolution of employment/population ratio in Canada.  In essen...

Employment in Canada revisited...

Two years ago we presented a parsimonious model describing the evolution of employment/population ratio in Canada.  In essen...

A fairy tale about the future rate of unemployment...

The rate of unemployment, u, was very high (10%) in 2009. It has been often discussed that the fall in this rate is too slow hist...

The beauty of science II. Predicting the rate of u...

A few hours ago, I reportedthat Canada gives the best example of accurate quantitative prediction of unemployment in developed co...

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