The Shift From East To West – Chinese Investment
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Asian Markets
I am planning on doing a longer piece on the heterogeneous nature of Asian markets as a function of their cultural and economic background. In the meantime I needed to generate a chart of the comparative performance of the Nikkei, the Hang Seng and the doggy Shanghai Composite over the past year.
S&P500
I like everyone else has been ear bashed by the notion of the fiscal cliff – that is yet another seemingly childish staring contest by people who are supposedly adults. We have seen several of these this year particularly in Europe where the Greeks and the Germans tried to out dickhead each other before actually…
DetailsPredictions
My news reader picked up this little piece this morning – Trio of Strategists Agree S&P 500 to Reach Record in 2013 Bank of America Corp.’s Savita Subramanian yesterday joined Citigroup Inc.’s Tobias Levkovich and Bank of Montreal (BMO)’s Brian Belski in predicting the benchmark gauge for U.S. stocks will top the high of 1,565.15 set on…
DetailsThe Miracle Of China
Markets are good at telling you what the real story is. Watching price is not like listening to someone tell a story since people place their own filters on the information they receive and then filter it again for public consumption. People tell themselves what they want to hear and what they think will be…
DetailsJeff Bezos – Video Interview
Click pic for interview……
Bill Gates On Enthusiasm And Open Mindedness
Short three minute piece. PS Gladwell is still wrong about the 10,000 hour rule. Talent beats practice anywhere, anytime……
DetailsThe Value of the Dow In Gold
Here is another one of those charts valuing the Dow in gold. When someone figures how the f$5k this helps in their trading let me know.
