Stock Market, Economics, Equity Analysis
Mar21
Quite an interesting session yesterday. The type of stocks that used to mean something to the indexes i.e. the FedEx's and Caterpillar's of the world had warnings and/or weak updates but the market did not care. Further, after the bell…
Jan10
Looks like this is going to be another one of "those" rallies. You know the type – almost entirely in premarkets. I did the math yesterday and from the Dec 18th high, the S&P 500 was actually down 43 points excluding…
Dec14
While the U.S. market has been doing little this month, the Shanghai index had its best day since October 2009 with a 4.3% gain overnight. This took it to 2150 (I created a blue line below in the chart to…
Dec06
Automation and technology have wrecked havoc on labor markets the past 10-20 years, especially those in the developed West. Yes there are exceptions such as Canada and Australia who have resource rich environments (i.e. North Dakota) but for most economies…
Dec05
Overnight, the Chinese markets surged after being comatose for months. Some are saying it is due to comments from the new government which are leading to expectations for further intervention; others are pointing to a rule change limiting how much…