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,
A number of analysts, and even some of those in the real estate industry, are finally coming around to the depressing conclusion that there will never be a recovery in residential real estate. Long time readers of this letter know too well that I have been hugely negative on the sector since late 2005, when
?People think that Treasury bonds are riskless, but a 100 basis point rise in interest rates leads to an 18% capital loss,? said Andrew Neale, a portfolio manager at Fogel Neale Partners.
Another great American Icon is falling victim to the collapse of the country?s manufacturing industry. Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries has completed construction of the last of four steel modules for the new Oakland Bay Bridge. The pieces of this giant erector set, which weigh 5,300 tons together, will shortly begin the arduous 22 day journey