50 degrees, 26.68 minutes North, 022 degrees, 29.98 minutes East, or 1,000 nautical miles South of Iceland, heading 089 degrees. Four days of hearing foghorns is starting to get tiring. Captain Wells has been ducking many of his social responsibilities, feeling more secure in the bridge close to the radar. After a few days of
?Who knew the blockbuster this year would be a horror show,? said Tony Crescenzi, market strategist and portfolio manager at bond giant, PIMCO.
?Take 200 round trips to Australia, and you really start to rack up the miles,? said Tom Stoker, and automotive sales analyst who just surpassed 10 million frequent flier points on United Airlines. It makes my own 1 million miles seem puny by comparison.
First there was your grade point average, then your SAT score, followed by GMAT and LSAT scores, and finally your FICO. Now there is a new metric with which you will be judged, your ?Influencer? score. A new breed of marketing research firms are using data from social media sites, like Facebook, Linkedin, and Twitter,
?I?m long tear gas after the Athens experience. They are going to need that tear gas in Rome and Madrid at some point,? said Steve Cortez at Veracruz Research.
During my college days, one of my math professors used to repeat a truism: ?Statistics are like a bikini; what they reveal are fascinating, but what they conceal is essential.? That has increasingly becoming the case with US economic data, which are leading investors astray with their faulty guidance. It turns out that most government
They are really rocking the market today, with the Dow up nearly 200 points off the back of a non-disastrous Chinese GDP growth figure of 7.7%. However, there is a serious disconnect going on in our markets which suggests to me that our own party may be about to end. Yesterday?s blockbuster weekly jobless claim
Location: 48 degrees, 02.12 minutes North, 043 degrees, 42.08 minutes East, or 1,421 nautical miles ENE of New York. The Queen Mary 2 is currently plowing its way through a massive fog bank a thousand miles thick, sounding the foghorn every two minutes. Visibility is less than 100 yards, and the waves are a rough
?It?s a bit like looking for gold in a minefield,? said Fidelity International?s China Special Situation Fund manager, Anthony Bolton, amid widespread accounting fraud in the country.
Come join me for lunch for the Mad Hedge Fund Trader?s Global Strategy Update, which I will be conducting in Paris on Tuesday, July 17, 2012. A three course lunch will be followed by a PowerPoint presentation and an extended question and answer period. I?ll be giving you my up to date view on stocks,