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MACRO INVESTING & ECONOMICS
“I am deeply ashamed to know that I won't be able to pay our staff. They have got mortgages, children. What am I supposed to do?" Jesus Manuel Ampero, Mayor of Cenicientos (Spain) It has been an unpredictable summer. Investors have been wrong-footed by surprisingly strong growth emanating from Europe (read…
Inter-market Technical Analysis: S&P 500, Nikkei225, FTSE 100
The volumeless rally in equities continues and for the S&P 500, despite some whipsaw behavior in yesterday's session, the expectation is that the 1130 target could now…
Signposts to recovery
The debate rages on between those that believe the global economy is heading back into recession, the so called double-dip, and those that believe the recovery remains…
No more subsidies for minority special interest groups: the military,…
From Felix Salmon : "The government does need to get the housing market going, because the alternative is unthinkable: if the government just kicked away the housing…
MARKETS AND ASSET CLASSES
This Week In China - China’s Economy Will Surpass Japan’s…
China is set to overtake Japan as the second largest economy in the world in a resurgence that is changing everything from the global balance of military…
Is there a new paradigm for UK house prices?
According to the Nationwide Building Society, UK new home prices have risen 3% in the first half of 2010, following a previous flat year. This amounts to…
EDUCATION & INVESTING STRATEGIES
A reader recently asked me for a list of books that I’d recommend for other investors. Flattered that anyone would care what I though, I’ve decided to do a post on that very subject, and here it is. This is a list of the books and studies that have most…
Dow Theory Seer cites poor action in market leaders, Apple…
We have been reading the latest copy of the Dow Theory Letters, one of the longest running investment letters in the US written by the highly regarded…
The Crunch is Back: Ten reasons for the current market…
The recent near panic conditions across all asset classes showed no signs of abating yesterday with evidence of acceleration. Even though my area is technical analysis, and…
Dow Jones Head and Shoulders Top - Noted but yet…
Markets have continued to fall since my last report, with the Dow Jones currently at 10211 down from 10620, and FTSE 100 at 5163 down from 5262.…
POLITICS, TAX & REGULATION
Most of us are familiar with the irritation of discovering how much tax we have to pay when we book a flight with a low cost airline. The annoyance is temporary though and, in the end, does not impact the decision making process. We know that if we fly on…
Twitter, 'Media Failure' & SME Liquidity: Research Indicates News Tweeting…
It's long been an observation of many smallcap investors that the mainstream media generally struggles to cover the sheer volume of smaller company news stories in any…
Roland Koch warns the City over EU Financial Regulation
Roland Koch, the outgoing Minister President of Hessen, Germany, was courting London’s financial community yesterday in an effort to counter the ties developing in Brussels that may…
Corporate Governance and Shareholder Value: Greed’s Not Good For Shareholders
When we look at the genuinely successful business people of our time, that happy band of folks who've created true shareholder value, enriching themselves and their followers…
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