Well, they didn?t really say that, but they could have, and perhaps should have, and the bond market wholeheartedly agrees with them. That is my takeaway from the Fed minutes released yesterday indicating that the Federal Reserve intends to extend its hyper accommodative policies for at least another 6-9 months to ?late 2012.? It also
I am writing this letter at a table in the alcove of the Polo Lounge at the legendary Beverly Hills Hotel. They did not disappoint on the movie star front, with more than an ample supply. At the table on my right, John Hamm, who plays the predatory ad man Don Draper in AMC?s Mad
?China has been doing everything right for the last ten years. Our government is made up of 'C' students that were political science majors, whereas, the Chinese government is made up of PhD's that were educated at Cambridge and Harvard,' said one Washington observer.
Newspapers, TV, radio, and the Internet all carried the same headline in San Francisco today: ?Apple Now World?s Largest Company.? That was the response to the company?s Q4 earnings of $13 billion announced yesterday that drove its market capitalization skyward to $415 billion, surpassing ExxonMobile?s (XOM) once again. What is even more amazing is that
Analysts continue to be stunned by the rate at which cash is rolling into Apple (AAPL). At current cash flows, the company?s hoard is expected to grow from $96.7 billion to $130 billion by next June, an increase of nearly $220 million a day! So far, the company has resisted every entreaty to part with
?Oh wow, Oh wow, Oh wow!? Were the last words of Apple founder, Steve Jobs.
It is already January 24, and the S&P 500 has seen a grand total of two down days so far in 2012. Are we on the eve of one of the great bull markets of all time? Is it off to the races once again? I follow dozens of fundamental and trading research services and
It has been a long wait for 'peak oilers,' whose passionate belief is that the world will run out of oil in coming years, sending prices through the roof. This splinter religion came into being in 1956 when M. King Hubbert produced some simple supply/demand charts showing that US reserves of Texas tea would dry
'He who lives upon hope will die fasting,' said Benjamin Franklin.
Come join me for lunch at the Mad Hedge Fund Trader?s Global Strategy Update, which I will be conducting in Las Vegas at 12:00 noon on Friday, January 27, 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