We Can't Wait To See What The Market Does With Jos. A Bank Today (JOSB)
Friday night is a classic time for companies and government to take out the trash — release some bad news so that people forget about it over the weekend.Still, 8:05 on a Friday night is a very unusual...
View ArticleA Gap Is Emerging That Shows Why The Bond Market Could Get Crushed
One of the most striking illustrations we've seen so far of the recent rally in stocks and risky assets comes courtesy of Deutsche Bank rates strategists Francis Yared and Dominic Konstam.Lately,...
View ArticleAnalyst Warns Vietnamese Citizens To 'Get Out Of Gold Before It's Too Late'
Viet Capital macro analyst Phong Nguyen has a stark warning for Vietnamese investors today: "We believe it’s time to get out of gold before it’s too late."The reason?Vietnam's domestic price of gold...
View ArticleThe Brooklyn Nightclub That Everyone's Been Waiting For Opened This Weekend,...
What made this weekend's opening of the new Williamsburg club, Output, so interesting wasn't that Brooklyn's been waiting for it — it's that all of New York City has been waiting for it.City music...
View ArticleAn Incredible Collection Of Ferraris Was On Display In Palm Beach This Weekend
Thousands of Ferrari lovers flocked to Palm Beach this weekend for the annual Cavallino Classic, one of the largest Ferrari conventions in the world.The centerpiece of the event was the Concorso...
View ArticleThe Mysterious Titans Of Shipping Reveal The Truth About The Global Economy
Approximately 95 percent of world trade occurs by sea. However, little is known about the world's shippers because only a fraction are traded publicly.In her new book Dynasties Of The Sea, CNBC's Lori...
View ArticleMore Proof That Money Can't Buy Happiness
People with shopping addictions love it mostly for the "high" it brings. They falsely believe the high will last, and their happiness levels inevitably return to a baseline level, continuing a vicious...
View ArticleOptimists Are Ignoring Two Key Points About The US Housing Recovery (ITB, XHB)
Everyone has been celebrating the recent increase in U.S. home prices. But in the latest RPX monthly housing market report, Quinn Eddins, Director of Research at RadarLogic writes that it is too early...
View ArticleWomen-Owned Investment Firms Are Blowing Away The Competition
No matter how you slice and dice the numbers, there's little that hedge funds have going for them these days. Last year was particularly brutal for the industry, which performed just 1.3 percent better...
View ArticleAsian Markets Are Up
Asian markets have opened modestly higher, after the S&P 500 ended its 8-day winning streak.The Nikkei is modestly higher. Remember it has been up after Shinzo Abe came to power on promises of more...
View ArticleCHART: 20 Years Of Apple Vs. ExxonMobil
Thanks to Apple's recent tumble, its market value is now neck and neck with oil giant ExxonMobil once again.John Stoltzfus of Oppenheimer threw together this chart tracking 20 years of Apple versus...
View ArticleMarkets Are Going Nowhere
Markets are going nowhere.Europe is pretty much flat everywhere.US futures are lower by a hair.Yesterday, the S&P 500 broke an 8-day winning streak.Markets gained modestly in both China and...
View ArticleThe 20 Fastest Growing Countries In The World
This month, the World Bank cut its 2013 global growth forecast to 2.4 percent (from 3.0 percent), its 2014 forecast to 3.1 percent (from 3.3 percent), and it introduced its 2015 forecast calling for...
View ArticleThe 10 Dow Stocks That Do The Best In The Final Week Of January
At Seasonal Odds we analyzed the average historical performance of each of the Dow Jones components in the last week of January over the last 5 years.These 10 stocks all returned over 1% on average in...
View ArticleThe World's Biggest Mining Companies Have Been Taking Some Massive Losses Due...
LONDON (Reuters) - Anglo American Plcwill take a $4 billion writedown on its Minas Rio iron ore operation in Brazil after delays and cost overruns forced the mining group to increase expenditure on the...
View ArticleMorgan Stanley: A Pattern That's Held For Two Decades Shows Why Investors Are...
Morgan Stanley analyst Gerard Minack is always an intriguing read: In his latest note he talks about output gaps and fiscal policy, and argues that fiscal policy has been particularly robust during...
View ArticleToday We Get The Most Closely-Watched Housing Number In The World
It's Case-Shiller day!Case-Shiller is the house price index that's considered to be the most thorough measure.The number comes out at 9.Calculated Risk has the preview:• At 9:00 AM ET,...
View ArticleCITI: Here's Why The World's Rich Countries Will Always Win A Currency War
The basic concept of "currency wars" is that countries are all trying to weaken their currencies to boost exports. "Wars" is an overly dramatic word to use, but countries to complain about other...
View ArticleMarkets Have Taken A Turn South
Things were flat earlier, but markets are now going into a rouge state.US futures are down. Europe is read across the board.Leading the losers is Italy, which is down 0.57%.Here's Italy's FTSE MIB...
View ArticleBank Of America Reveals The Complete List Of Winners In This New 'Great...
From Bank of America's Michael Hartnett -- who has been really bullish on this idea of a "great rotation" happening right now in asset classes -- a fantastic slide comparing the winners of the past...
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